this post was submitted on 14 Dec 2024
9 points (100.0% liked)

Perchance - Create a Random Text Generator

494 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 2 years ago
MODERATORS
eatham
[email protected]
VioneT
perchance
9
Some "bad words" regexes on generators page block things when they shouldn't. (self.perchance)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by wthit56 to c/perchance
4 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

For example...

The creator of ai-furry-generator was frustrated by their generator now being shown on the page. It has this in the description: "whiteboard drawing with tldraw—powered by Stable Diffusion." Which is fine. (This is what https://lemmy.world/post/23131988 is about.)

But it matches the bad regex /white.*power/i

For now I've told them what to change so it'll show up again. But ideally, it wouldn't match something innocuous like this. Maybe check for only whitespace and dashes, or non-letters, something like that? I mean, some things are going to slip through either way--but personally I'd err on the side of letting good people have good things, rather than taking good things away from good people in case they're bad based on a too-inclusive regex. ;p

Might also be a good idea to console.log every generator that was skipped for showing on the page, with the reason why. So that there's an easy way to see the cause and fix it if it's an invalid match. Or ask the dev to fix that check so it's more correct... without needing to figure out the code itself.

top 4 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] wthit56 6 points 3 weeks ago

@[email protected]

[–] wthit56 2 points 3 weeks ago

I've now made a copy of the generators listing, that fixes this, and adds common preferences for what to show/hide. https://perchance.org/generators-with-prefs

[–] Alllo 2 points 3 weeks ago

10 points for ravenclaw.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Turtle power!