Perchance - Create a Random Text Generator

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⚄︎ Perchance

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.

See this post for the Complete Guide to Posting Here on the Community!

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1. Please follow the Lemmy.World instance rules.

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2. Be kind and friendly.

Please be kind to others on this community (and also in general), and remember that for many people Perchance is their first experience with coding. We have members for whom English is not their first language, so please be take that into account too :)

3. Be thankful to those who try to help you.

If you ask a question and someone has made a effort to help you out, please remember to be thankful! Even if they don't manage to help you solve your problem - remember that they're spending time out of their day to try to help a stranger :)

4. Only post about stuff related to perchance.

Please only post about perchance related stuff like generators on it, bugs, and the site.

5. Refrain from requesting Prompts for the AI Tools.

We would like to ask to refrain from posting here needing help specifically with prompting/achieving certain results with the AI plugins (text-to-image-plugin and ai-text-plugin) e.g. "What is the good prompt for X?", "How to achieve X with Y generator?"
See Perchance AI FAQ for FAQ about the AI tools.
You can ask for help with prompting at the 'sister' community Casual Perchance, which is for more casual discussions.
We will still be helping/answering questions about the plugins as long as it is related to building generators with them.

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Perchance wont load in (self.perchance)

submitted 3 weeks ago by LucyIsHere to c/perchance

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This happened yesterday, how do I fix this? Last 2 days it was working just fine. Is there anyway to fix this?

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[–] perchance 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Hi, sorry about this, seems like quite a few users are having the same problem, but I'm not sure what the cause is yet. The more info you can give here, the faster I'll be able to solve it. Some questions that should allow me to narrow down the cause:

Can you please screenshot what's shown when the page won't load, and share it here?
Do you remember the last time it worked (approximate day+time), and the first time you noticed that it wasn't working (again, approx day+time)?
Can you test on multiple browsers, and ideally multiple devices (e.g. phone + laptop), and ideally multiple internet connections (e.g. phone data + wifi)? This will help narrow down whether it's a browser issue, device issue, or network connection issue.
If it works in one browser, but not the other, please also test in "incognito" / "private browsing" mode, or "guest mode" of the non-working browser.
Are you using normal wifi at home? Or is there anything unusual about the internet you're using (e.g. school network, or special "firewall", etc.)
Can you try visiting these two links and letting me know if they work? This will let me know if there's a specific "part" of the server that's causing the error.
- https://perchance.org/api/getGeneratorScreenshot?generatorName=welcome (should see a screenshot of perchance homepage)
- https://perchance.org/api/getGeneratorList?max=10 (should see a bunch of text)
- https://user-uploads.perchance.org/file/dde4194f0dc3fe026e12100a4c30e280.txt (should see the text "abc123")

[–] ZRo 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Hello! I have also been experiencing the same problem for the past 2 to 3 days, not sure about the time. The attached images show the three links you posted were "unreachable." I have also tested on multiple devices using two mobile phones, also connected to my home wifi, and the problem persists, continuously loading and having the same result. I have tried testing with public wifi and the problem still continues. So far I only encountered this problem with perchance as my wifi speed has been the same for the last weeks and I am able to browse through the Internet with no problems.

Apologies for any errors since this is my first time posting here. I actually made this account just to comment here and hope the AI works again on our end.

[–] perchance 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

It seems like there might be an ISP in the Philippines that is blocking Perchance. I'm not sure why. If you are in the Philippines, then you could try getting a free VPN chrome extension, or install https://one.one.one.one/ (which is a reputable free VPN by Cloudflare) and let me know if that fixes it for you.

[–] cutemonicat24 2 points 3 weeks ago

i wanna confirm that this actually work also in the philippines got it working perfectly on my phone

[–] ZRo 2 points 2 weeks ago

I want to confirm that using a VPN worked when Perchance was unreachable. Yesterday, or perhaps the other day, Perchance returned to being usable as is without a VPN or other third parties. I tested through multiple devices and the results followed, the site is reachable, the AI generation function proper, and comments are loading in.

Thank you to those handling Perchance for listening and cooperating with your community!