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Perchance - Create a Random Text Generator

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This is a Lemmy Community for perchance.org, a platform for sharing and creating random text generators.

Feel free to ask for help, share your generators, and start friendly discussions at your leisure :)

This community is mainly for discussions between those who are building generators. For discussions about using generators, especially the popular AI ones, the community-led Casual Perchance forum is likely a more appropriate venue.

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Saving Edited Generators even when not Logged In/Signed Up (self.perchance)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by VioneT to c/perchance
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There is a feature that was recently added which is the 'Edit Password' upon saving a generator that isn't yours (you are remixing another person's generator). It is for recovering/saving an edited generator without logging in (or those users that are having trouble with saving generators since the email verification is having problems).

Steps:

  1. Click edit in the generator you want to edit.
  2. Upon saving, and opt to create a generator (since you can't save a generator to an account since you are not logged in), it would then give out a 'edit password'. Remember/Save this generated string as well as the newly created URL (not the original one).
  3. Later on (as long as the local storage is not cleared) you can navigate again to that newly created page (while still not logged in into an account) then enter the edit password after clicking save to return back/apply your changes to the generator.
A video demo of how it works.
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[–] wthit56 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Are you planning on signing out every time you want to work on a version? And making a new version?

What I do while working on a new version is, I work on a private/unlisted copy of the generator. I find that a lot easier. And I can reuse it too. That other copy becomes the backup of the code. And I copy the code across to the public "real" version when I'm ready for the world to see. Just a thought.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Are you planning on signing out every time you want to work on a version? And making a new version?

No, I would instead create a whole separate browser profile, so I don't have to log out every single time on my primary browser profile.

What I do while working on a new version is, I work on a private/unlisted copy of the generator.

Hmm... I could do that, however I've had a fear that the supposedly private generator would go out in the generators page immediately before I quickly set it to private, and that someone would be able to click the link through that page, so I thought creating a separate generator and saving it while not logging in would be a better option, since Perchance will un-list them right after, albeit still being publicly accessible. I know that this phenomenon is very unlikely to happen, but I'm just afraid that it would happen at all.

[–] wthit56 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So to avoid the potential of someone going to the generators page in the 5 second window in which it's public--the first and only time it ever will be--you'd make an entire new email address, and perchance account, and set that up in your browser so you can have both accounts open at once? You do you, but man that seems like a lot of work to avoid that very slim chance 😅

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

you’d make an entire new email address, and perchance account, and set that up in your browser so you can have both accounts open at once?

I might haven't good enough at describing it - basically I'll just stay logged out of Perchance entirely for that profile, and not creating an entirely new account, and I might also save the password and the generator link in my massive notes text file in case I lost it. In that case though, I think the private window could be a good alternative besides using a separate browser profile.