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

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[Suggestion] Tenor GIF, links, images and (self.perchance)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Cocell to c/perchance
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Dear Perchance Dev,

I request if it would be possible to display GIFs from Tenor similarly to how it is displayed on Discord. In that regard, if it is possible.

It would be another great opportunity to finally utilize an option to display images, for example ![Alt Text](image_url) on another note, it would be a creative option if width and height could have been been specified, well, in a manner akin to CSS width: 100%; height: auto; and though this is not strict, being able to use display block or inline would be great if we are to add both texts and images.

About the links, I currently know of a simple and similar markdown to set up links as well, [Link Text](url). Though I have noticed only Perchance links can be shared.

I leave these suggestions onto you, I would greatly appreciate it if you could add these. ๐Ÿ™‚โ€โ†•๏ธโœ‰๏ธ

I was also thinking what if you were to recreate an entirely new plugin specifically designed for a more superior interface and features. If you are considering this, the above suggestions mentioned should be dedicated to this specific one to avoid unnecessary efforts. Though we can take it slow at a time.

If you are to consider these, you could also set up the "bots" mechanism. And, as an Admin of a Gen, the control over it feels very limited, I have moderators helping me, but they aren't able to take actions such banning. Thinking of banning, we don't always need to band people, a timeout is also efficient.

Whenever I have to ban toxic people, I have to tell my members, "Guys, please refresh" which is not something too bad, but it soon starts to give a strange vibe to it as I have to ban exceptional amount of people. Also, there should be a universal ID to ban across all the places. ๐Ÿ˜ฅ

And, it all sounds easy from these texts, I understand it is not so easy. Which is why, I, and we as community, would like to offer you the help we are able to provide, for example alpha testing, help with codes, etc.

It feels as if I am saying you are not good on your own, but I am simply eager to help to ease the burden. Thank you for considering this. โ™ฅ๏ธ

๐Ÿ˜ณI planned to be more detailed, however due to my extensive work hours, I am quite exhausted to conjure up more ideas.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

You could try my advanced comments plugin demo project that I crafted using the comments plugin's onComment-onLoad and programmatic submission features. And I'm also planning to release the project as a plugin in the upcoming months (with a new name!).

It already covers some of the features described here such as support for clickable non-Perchance links (and a URL blocklist too), real Markdown formatting (which includes the image feature and the [Link Text](url) link format you mentioned), plus some extra features such as a whole lot of formatting options (including highlighting, glow, text color, text size, text rotation, secret messages, and more), the ability to create polls from a website, etc. It even has a different chat interface too.

It still is in ongoing development though, and it has some missing features, such as custom styling, admin moderation features (although you can still login as admin), blocking users, and rate-limiting comments. So it isn't quite ready for widespread use yet, but it is enough to play around and test it out for yourself. I'm also planning to add a "Test Tools" section in the plugin page to test out some of the capabilities that the original plugin has, such as the programmatic submission (aka "bots"), the slash commands and the onComment and onLoad features, and also an ability to "like" and "repost" comments in the project backend.

On the other note, those are good suggestions, but I think @[email protected] needs to think about moderation. Especially the image feature, it could be misused for bad actors to put explicit images on there that wasn't supposed to be seen by everybody.

[โ€“] Cocell 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wow, that is actually pretty amazing. Though I still get the same error, "VPN" banned, guess my IP is banned. ๐Ÿ˜…

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I believe you can type feedback to the channel field to be able to comment ๐Ÿ™‚

[โ€“] Cocell 2 points 4 months ago

I do that in my Gens but... Not everyone is going to use feedback. I am still waiting to replace my wifi. ๐Ÿฅฒ