I broke through to post this so:
Some time ago I was reading
and idea of speculative biology database appeared in my head. GitHub let’s people remotely propose changes to a filesystem (also lets create versions of said filesystem), so why not combine these two things together?
I could theoretically already make it myself, but it would probably soon be forgotten by me, etc…
So here I wanted to discuss this idea. First of all, the filesystem structure.
My idea was to split database into location folders that would have their time folders, era folders perhaps, like this:
Folder
Planet Alpha
Years 0 - 1000 Prelife Era
Data
Years 1000 - 5000 First Era
Data
Planet Beta
Years 0 - 1000 Prelife Era
Data
Years 1000 - 5000 Newborn Era
Data
Inside era folder there could be the species present on a planet in that period of time. These species could also be located in some folders that would categorize them maybe?
Planet folder perhaps could have some miscellaneous data files.
Then, if new era occurs, previous era folder is duplicated, renamed, and species in it are changed (or not changed). If a species that was in previous era is not present in new era, that means it has gone extinct.
Planet Alpha
Years 0 - 1000 Prelife Era
Species 1: small
Planet Alpha
Years 0 - 1000 Prelife Era
Species 1: small
Years 1000 - 5000 First Era
Species 1: large
This could be a nice time-killer for when someone is bored. I have more ideas in my head but I’m going to wait for your opinion.
Also, if you are familiar with GitHub and programming I suggest to contribute to Thrive, it is worth it 
(There may be a high probability you already were considering it, but anyways.)
