Markovstuck is a web application that generates Homestuck pages using Markov chains. It is inspired by /r/subredditsimulator subreddit on Reddit and Headline Smasher.
You can use a live copy of this site at markovstuck.matoking.com.
The Python dependencies for this project are in the file requirements.txt and they can be installed by running the following command:
pip install -r requirements.txt
In addition to usual requirements for a Django application, Markovstuck also requires a Redis server acting as a persistent storage (check the 'persistent' cache in settings.py).
Before any pages can be generated, you'll need to run a command to download images from MSPAdventures.com the web application uses to populate the generated pages:
python manage.py update_images
Pre-generated Markov chains are included in the chains directory. update_data command was used to create the Markov chains on demand, but since Homestuck's migration to a new site, the search page used for this was removed.
To ensure that pages can be generated fast, you need to run the provided chain_server.py script, which loads every existing Markov chain into memory at once. At the time of writing, the server consumes about ~500 MB of RAM on a 32-bit system or ~1 GB on a 64-bit system once loaded.
python chain_server.py
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Homestuck is owned by MSPAdventures.com. This web application is neither affiliated with or endorsed by MSPAdventures.com.
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