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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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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 :)

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[Request] Different error reporting for perchance-internal errors (self.perchance)
submitted 2 months ago by wthit56 to c/perchance
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It's always funny when I get a perchance error in the red box that's some obscure problem internally. It's like "here's some common mistakes," but the mistake is actually not the user's fault and they're not making any mistakes--the perchance engine is 😅

Main thing is... the error message will mean absolutely nothing to most creators, and just look real scary. (I'm able to figure things out to some degree because I'm a web dev.)

It would be good to either catch problems early and handle them without erroring, just logging a warning perhaps.

Or maybe throw up more useful/readable messages, careful to mark it as an internal perchance issue--so then average creators can report that issue, and more advanced "hacky" users like me know it's because they're poking around with the internals.

Or you could have it just marked as an "internal error" and have an expandable <details> panel with the real error inside. Again, so advanced users can figure things out, but average users aren't like AWHAAAAAAAAAA~~~?!

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[–] perchance 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It’s always funny when I get a perchance error in the red box that’s some obscure problem internally

Can you give an example generator with an engine-internal error? Sounds like you've found a bug.

[–] wthit56 1 points 2 months ago

I think the ones I've found are from my __evaulateText shenanigans ;p

But also, there was another example. I'll see if I can find it again and get back to you...

[–] wthit56 1 points 2 months ago

Actually I think it was this one: https://lemmy.world/post/18866919. The missing reference would silently error, and then perchance would throw after that, or something.