Dev tools · September 13, 2014
Manhood – a powerful templating language for random text generation
(Obsolete) Archive of Rant 3.x. Contribute to TheBerkin/rant3 development by creating an account on GitHub.
Manhood – a powerful templating language for random text generation launched on September 13, 2014 with 22 votes and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 12 years on.
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Manhood is a templating language designed for generating random text. It was archived and is no longer actively maintained. The project is hosted on GitHub as part of the Rant 3.x development archive. Developers interested in text generation or contributing to the successor project can access the repository, though this version is considered obsolete.
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