Hi there,
Since @[email protected] was OK with bugging them with features, I'll seize the opportunity. Previously, I've published the list with improvements earlier (https://lemmy.world/post/17986442), which was received well, but I see how it can be overwhelming. I wasn't sure if it was a good idea to continue posting in that thread or make new one, so I'm making a new one. Feel free to merge threads if forum staff deems this necessary.
I picked a few low-effort features out of that list which I think could be considered essentials, and which would be great to see pushed upward in your TODO list, namely:
Prompting
- Introduce copy button in prompt and anti prompt fields for better UX on mobile (click to copy). Though, since I do not own any generators, I'm not sure if this is something that generator owner could do on their own?
Gallery
- On mobile, thumbs up and thumbs down buttons on images in the gallery should show up without having to tap on an image to reveal these buttons to make it easier for people to upvote or downvote.
- Implement search/filter in galleries (at least most simplistic, regex-based search by prompt and saveTitle/saveDescription). If you rather not touch database at all at this point, since prompt is stored in HTML after an image is generated, could be a simple JS script that searches within image containers as a starter. Users could manually load gallery pages they wish to search in. Though, is this also something that the owner of the generator could potentially cook up on their own?
- Store the galleries that the user visited earlier in local storage, so it is easier to switch between them when saving or browsing. The galleries could be presented as dropdown listed sorted alphabetically ascending.
Two items from that list are potentially the ones that can be implemented by generator owners, please enlighten me if this is the case - I've seen some very fancy looking generators, but wasn't sure if most of it is just CSS. Thank you, and looking forward - it's always cool to see Perchance evolving!
Cool, from me and many other mobile users - thank you! Upvote/downvote button and the gallery switching UI is great, may take some time getting used to, but does the job for now. As far as searching goes, as I've mentioned, a lot of people don't bother creating galleries and just dump their stuff in public. One could search by their signature (e.g.
generated by ...,art by..., etc), for example, if they later wish to retrieve their image and do something with it (move to other gallery, reupload somewhere else, etc). Also while this is very specific to furry generator, furry content is heavily tagged, and people could easily search anything of their interest, by species, by sexuality, anything really. Or, we on our generator have certain people who upload disturbing and borderline illegal images but always use the same tags, that would make it this much easier to block all of their images at once. Of course it would be nice to have the search that is searching in entire gallery, but as first step, searching within currently loaded pages locally in user's browser could be a good start. You could gauge if this is something used commonly, then move to implementing it properly if you deem this feature important. We personally have a small community (~50 people) where we could host a poll to help you out on this to an extent that we can.Nevermind the implementation of search in-browser, I never realized that the gallery itself is inside an iframe, and therefore is difficult to manipulate!