January 10, 2026
Butterfly or bug? You vote
Open Chaos: A self-evolving open-source project
The internet is voting to break a website—and loving it
TLDR: OpenChaos lets people vote wild changes into a live site, from retro nostalgia to content shuffling. Comments split between playful anarchy and calls for safety checks, with Twitch Plays vibes and worries about whether guardrails will keep the experiment from imploding
OpenChaos.dev is basically crowd‑controlled web design: the community proposes changes, votes, and the site morphs “until next merge.” The open proposals read like a chaos buffet—“Rewrite it in rust,” “IE6 mode, welcome back to GeoCities,” “Added dickbutt,” “Scramble content every 10 seconds,” and a “Hall of Chaos” scoreboard to immortalize past winners. There’s even a pitch to make the title do a silly math puzzle and to invert light/dark mode for maximum mischief. See the mayhem on GitHub.
The comments are the show. One romantic hopes the metamorphosis is “more butterfly than Kafka,” while another says it feels like Twitch Plays Pokémon—aka the internet mashing buttons to steer the game. The pushback arrives hot: a user asks if guardrails like CI/CD (automatic checks that make sure code actually works) can also be changed, worrying the project “might went into oblivion indeed!” Meanwhile, others cheer the execution and drop links to similar experiments, thirsty to see what happens when memes meet merge buttons.
The strongest split: pure chaos versus responsible chaos. Fans want daily disorder, snow overlays, pointer sparkles, and content that shuffles every 10 seconds. Pragmatists argue for vote progress bars, conflict warnings, and basic quality checks. Either way, the vibe is clear: break it, fix it, laugh, repeat—until the next merge
Key Points
- •OpenChaos.dev lists open pull requests and invites users to vote on which changes to merge.
- •The project repository is hosted on GitHub (skridlevsky/openchaos), with evolution guided by each merge.
- •Proposals include functional features like PR health indicators, reaction calculations, PR age display, and vote progress bars.
- •Major or stylistic changes proposed include rewriting in Rust, introducing a chaotic layout, and making the title follow a fizzbuzz rule.
- •Playful and UI-focused ideas span IE6/GeoCities-style mode, content scrambling, pointer effects, language additions, and a Hall of Chaos section.