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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!

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.

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I redesigned the UI of the Recently Updated Generators, please use this code to update generators.

To be clear about what this is: it's not a new hub or a new feed. It's the same generator list, the same comment threads — I only changed the interface on top of it. Anyone can copy the code and drop it into the official page.

What the UI change does

  • Cards that tell you what a generator is.
    • Each card leads with the generator's human-readable title ($meta.title) and shows the slug underneath, plus views, "updated x ago" and the generator's tags. Two media icons under the timestamp preview its artwork (🖼️) and its live screenshot (📷) — so you can see what a text-to-image generator actually produces before clicking it. Hovering swaps in the live screenshot too, and on a phone a tap opens and closes the same preview.
  • Discovery instead of a wall of cards.
    • On desktop there are two sticky side panels: 🔥 Most viewed on the left, 📈 Trending on the right. Both collapse to a slim rail if you'd rather have the grid space.
  • A Trending feed that rotates.
    • Generators fall into three buckets — proven (real engagement), fresh (new in the last 7 days), wildcards (older, low-activity) — and the panel is filled one slot at a time with a weighted random draw (~30% / 40% / 30%), ordered by a 7-term score. It's redrawn on every page load, or on demand from the ⟳ button beside the heading, so the same handful of generators can't permanently freeze everyone else out. The trending algorithm is adapted from https://perchance.org/nexora-hub and the whole thing is tuneable via TRENDING_CONFIG.
  • The whole catalogue, without the wait.
    • The newest listings paint first, the rest of the ~1700 soon after, and the remainder pages in as you scroll — so the feed is the full set without a long blank load.
  • Search that filters the list as you type
    • (names, titles, descriptions, tags). The search button still opens the Google site-search.
  • A "N new generators — click to refresh" pill
    • when listings appear while you're reading, instead of the feed jumping under you.
  • Comments stay where they belong.
    • All four channels (General, Feedback, Sharing, Off topic) are hosted by the generators generator's own comment folders, so a comment posted on the redesign lands in the same thread as one posted on the official hub. Theme-aware, with a custom emoji pack.
  • Live "N online · peak N"
    • counter, with the peak stored durably on the server so it survives restarts.
  • A changelog page at #/changelog (deep-linkable), so users can see what changed and when — plus a 🔀 Diff page at #/diff that shows a live, word-level diff of the official generators source against this one, for both panels, so any dev can see exactly what's different.
  • Independent mobile/desktop layouts, full dark-mode support, pinned and ultra-pinned entries (red ring, 📌 / 📌📌), a green ring marking the listings a refresh just brought in, the feed's spam/banned-name filtering, scroll-position restore, quick links and search — all kept working.
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