can anyone think of like, a crowdsourced text adventure where the story itself had been built out of user-submitted content?

@suricrasia when I was a kid there was this webpage thing that, in my MIND, I remember being called "the neverending story. You would read a page then you could submit a page that branches off, and that could continue on recursively.

Of course I don't remember the web address or anything, so I can't even Wayback Machine it.

I guess I could reimplement it pretty easily myself, though.

@suricrasia and, as others have mentioned, MUDs - I've only started playing one, but the world's history is affected by players, interacting with the admins-as-NPCs or deities, building things together.

Most recently, in Achaea, players and some of the Gods worked together to make a "Spire of Time", a time capsule for players to put memories into, to be retrieved in hundreds of game years from now.

@suricrasia another thing that comes to mind is just old Roleplaying message boards.I guess that may still happen on Discord or other mediums. I used to roleplay Pokemon back on Yahoo! Clubs. 🤣