this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2024
2 points (75.0% liked)

Perchance - Create a Random Text Generator

448 readers
13 users here now

⚄︎ 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!

Rules

1. Please follow the Lemmy.World instance rules.

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.

6. Search through the Community Before Posting.

  • Please Search through the Community Posts here (and on Reddit) before posting to see if what you will post has similar post/already been posted.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
eatham
[email protected]
VioneT
perchance
2
[Request] Put all the usual loading/init etc. messages under console.debug() (self.perchance)
submitted 2 months ago by wthit56 to c/perchance
5 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

At the moment there's a lot of "clutter" in what is logged; it seems to all just use console.log which counts under the "info" category. And means anything the creator logs for their own "real" debugging is much harder to see--especially with more complex generators with many imports and nested imports.

If debug was used instead, the creator could choose to see all those things by turning on the "verbose" category in their dev tools. Or leave it off, and see the "info" channel with their own logs very easy to see and much more useful.

top 5 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

console.debug()? Hmm, never heard of this before. Thanks to this post I immediately learnt what it does.

I am unlocking many new JavaScript capabilities this month! 😄

[–] wthit56 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah interesting isn't it? I knew there was this "verbose" category but not what counted as it.

There's also console.info() you can use to explicitly send to the "info" category. And console.warn(), and console.error().

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

Today I learned - thanks! I was thinking about how annoying all the internal/plugin logs were recently, but didn't know about console.debug (I was going to fix via a localStorage flag). Let me know if there are any stray logs that I've missed in the engine, or commonly used plugins.

I've kept ai-text-plugin input logging for each generation request, since I use that all the time (to make sure I've not made any mistakes constructing my prompt), so I assume others will find it useful too.

[–] wthit56 3 points 2 months ago

Great--I'm so happy! :D

I'll bookmark this comment and come back to let you know if I spot more logs that should be .debug()

[–] wthit56 2 points 2 months ago

Cool, will do 👍