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 [![Contributor Covenant](https://img.shields.io/badge/Contributor%20Covenant-v2.0%20adopted-ff69b4.svg)](CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md)
 
+## We lost 41k stars
+
+We accidentally changed the visibility of this repository to private and unexpectedly lost 41k GitHub stars accumulated over the past 14 years.
+Read more in: [Hexo Lost 41k GitHub Stars with One Command](https://hexo.io/news/2026/05/08/hexo-lost-41k-github-stars-with-one-command/)
+
+![star history](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hexojs/site/master/source/_posts/2026-05-08-hexo-lost-41k-github-stars-with-one-command/star-history.webp)
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 ## Features
 
 - Blazing fast generating