STARLING build 2:
The default sky has a Coding mini system now GitHub, Hack Club, and ChatGPT sharing an orbit.
YouTube is Entertainment, Wikipedia is School, both loners. Wikipedia is 8 visits so it still looks young. YouTube is 23 and already has rings. hover either one and the card says its status: “Atmosphere forming” vs “Surface growing more complex.”
you can tell what websites you actually live on without opening anything.
worlds snap to discrete orbit lanes, the nearest world lights up as a “Join system” merge target, and they lerp into place instead of teleporting. drop a grouped world onto empty space and it ungroups. Customize –> “Lone orbit” actually leaves a system now.
new worlds spiral in from outside then pop with a particle burst. nothing lives on a server. localStorage + IndexedDB, no accounts.
grouping still needs a feel pass. you kind of have to start dragging before the snap and merge targets show up,