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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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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.

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  • 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.

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Previously all generators shared the null.perchance.org subdomain, but now thanks to Cloudflare moving wildcard DNS from the enterprise plan to the free plan (announcement post) I've given each generator its own subdomain. I really should have done this a year ago when they announced it - just got around to it today.

I've added some code to transfer localStorage data across to the new subdomains, but unfortunately this code has to run the first time you visit any generator, and causes a refresh to happen a second or two after page load. This'll be a bit annoying, but I can remove this code after a few months - it's just to make sure that any important data is transferred across. If someone hasn't visited a particular generator in a few months, then the localStorage data (e.g. from the remember-plugin) probably isn't very important (and if it is, it's still recoverable - they'd just have to make a post here on the lemmy community to get help on how to do it).

If, for some reason, you need to easily & programmatically access the new subdomain, you can use the global generatorPublicId variable (akin to generatorName which already existed). The full URL of the embedded iframe is https://${generatorPublicId}.perchance.org/${generatorName}. The null versions of generator embed URLs are auto-redirected to the new generatorPublicId versions, so you can still embed your generator in other websites using the normal embed code:

<iframe src="https://null.perchance.org/my-generator-name" style="width:100%; height:600px; border:none;"></iframe>

That iframe will redirect to:

https://50e67e76966106ad99d72edb729943b7.perchance.org/my-generator-name

Please let me know if you run into any troubles with this, or have any feedback/suggestions .𖥔 ݁ ˖

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[–] cracktroz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hi dev i discover something interesting please dm [email protected]

[–] perchance 1 points 1 year ago

Hi, you can DM me by clicking the "send message" button on this page: https://lemmy.world/u/perchance