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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 didn't expect it to take this long for me to get the new text model under control. It's much more intelligent in general, but the repetition and random fixations can get surprisingly bad.

Sorry about that. This is just a heads up that I'm still working on it, and it'll likely remain a bumpy ride for the next couple of months.

Thanks to those who have complained here and on reddit, especially the posts that give concrete examples of issues, and attempted workarounds, etc.

Please do keep posting any issues/discoveries, ideally with share links to give me specific examples that I can test.


Other news:

  • I'm still working on the next image gen update, and am hoping it will improve fine details, text rendering, and overall image quality. It should also be about 2x faster. If all goes well (which, from experience, it won't) I should be able to get that done in the next month or so.

  • For a long time I've been very close to shipping a multiplayer plugin and database plugin. I've actually made multiple 'ready to ship' draft plugins of both, but have been disatisfied with the design and ended up not publishing each time. Using these plugins won't trigger ads on the generator, so I need to be really careful about the overall architecture to ensure the the servers for them are dirt-cheap to run. I also want to make them fun/simple to use of course. Once I get text and images stable, I'm going to focus on these two plugins and finally get them done.

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Welcome to the Perchance Community!

Perchance.org is a platform for sharing and creating random text generators.

This Lemmy community is for:

  • Asking for help with problems, issues, or requests about generators in Perchance
  • Sharing and showcasing your created generators, templates, plugins, or pages in Perchance
  • Starting friendly discussions about topics related to Perchance
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Rules

Here are some rules in this community:

  • Please follow the lemmy.world instance rules.
  • 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 :)
  • Be thankful to those who try to help you.
    • If you ask a question and someone has made an 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 :)
  • Only post about stuff related to perchance.
    • Please only post about perchance related stuff like generators on it, bugs, and the site.
  • 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.

Posting

Here are some optional tags to add in your title to categorize the posts. These are merely tags, you still need to title your post effectively.

  • [Bug] - if you think you find any bug in Perchance, use this tag.
  • [Question] or [Help] - this is to denote that your post is a question or requesting for help
  • [Suggestion] - for any suggestions in Perchance
  • [Feedback] or [Appreciation] - for any feedback or appreciation to any generator or to Perchance in general.
  • [{Generator Category}] - Used to share any generator with the specified category
    • Text, Image, Template, Hub, Plugin, Preprocessor, Community/RP, Game, Experiment, Useful Generator
  • [Fluff] or [Non-Generator] - Non-generator posts but about Perchance
  • [Tutorial] or [Guide] - for any Perchance related tutorials or guides to help others

AI Plugins Posts

Here is a FAQ for the AI tools in Perchance.

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?"

There are guides, tutorials, and resources on the internet that can be applied when prompting in the AI tools in Perchance.

We will still be helping/answering questions about the plugins as long as it is related to building generators with them.

If you need help in prompting, please post on the 'sister' forum at Casual Perchance

Getting Started with Perchance

To get started with Perchance, check out the Perchance Tutorial or the Beginner Tutorial at the Perchance Hub Learn Tab to get to know the website.

Asking for help

Feel free to ask for help but please check out these tips on searching for an answer:

  • Check the following pages, to see if your question has already been answered or talked about or a plugin has been made for it. We recommend using the browser's search function (ctrl+f) and searching for similar keywords to your question/problem.
  • If you didn't find anything about your problem there, feel free to search through the posts/articles here:
  • If you can't still find anything related to your problem, feel free to post a thread here.
    • Please title your post effectively.
    • Please provide a link to your generator with your attempts of solving the problem.
    • Try to explain what you want it to do and what example output it should be doing.
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Unable to signup

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Hi everyone, I’ve been really enjoying the AI Character Chat and how flexible it is with custom code. One thing that’s been frustrating though is setting up high-quality voices with ElevenLabs. Right now, using custom voices (especially ones created with ElevenLabs Voice Design) requires pasting custom JavaScript into the character editor. This works for people who are comfortable with code, but it’s pretty complicated and annoying for everyone else. A lot of users seem to be struggling with it or having to use clunky workarounds. Would it be possible to add a simpler, built-in way to use ElevenLabs? Something like: • A field to enter your ElevenLabs API key • An easy way to select or set a default voice from your library • A simple toggle to turn TTS/speech on or off This would make voice roleplay much more accessible without needing to mess with custom code. I think a lot of people would really appreciate it for more immersive chats. Thanks for all the work you’ve put into the AI features — they’re already some of the best and most open options out there. Just wanted to throw this suggestion out there in case it’s something that could be added in the future. Appreciate any thoughts or feedback!

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Hi, Just a quick question on the Ai Text Generator Prediction Helper, has it gotten an update or a different model? Just i think Rudbo mentioned this before about the Ai repeating itself, and now its trying to help (Bless its thermal socks) by adding conversational suggestion mid code and then loses its train of thought. I was playing about with a simple idea with marquee to make simple moving stars. And each time i made a modification i would reload to see the changes , and every single time the List box was populated with suggestions. Like these :

  1. Repeating
  2. Suggestion
  3. Bananas

Just curious if its now populated by a preset instruction or something like the loadDependencies from the ai-character-chat? Or is it just like giving TinyLlama 60k tokens and drunk on power 😁

Here's the project: Stupid Stars

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I entered the email and a password and click sign up/ login. I got the message that the password does not match, well I ask to reset the password and it said that something is wrong: "something went wrong on the server (✖╭╮✖) pls post to forum if problem persists"

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I'm having trouble doing some things on the platform. I can use the text and image generators normally, however, I can't write and send in the comment sections. And no, I haven't spammed any time, and I don't even use a VPN. This has happened twice already; the other time it happened, it stopped, and now it's back again. Does anyone have a solution?

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For an example, I was making a story that began with two students doing a homework about a specific historic event. Instead of letting me continue normally, all of the Story Ideas are about the said historic event or the homework.

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Because everything seems smooth and fine now, but we can never be sure about that!

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Wanna say big thank you to the creator of perchance as this site has gotten me to actually understand coding better. Moving from SD to Flux.1 Schnell has also been a major boost. I am working on a side project image Gen that also ties in the ai chat and going to make a game generator that you can play a DND type game with the ai chat bot that generates images of the characters and the scene, still not close to getting that done.

Now, biggest thing I have been seeing with people and posts about the t2I generator now is that they do not understand Flux.1 at all. Here are some tips.

  1. Flux does not use negative prompting. You can add No "whatever" in the main prompt at the bottom to help Flux not generate something you dont want in the image.

  2. Flux does not use weights or () or any SD type prompting. Use the KISS method. Your prompt should be simple, ie: A husky dog running in a wooded forest during the middle of winter. - that will generate a good image. You can add - real photograph taken on an Kodak disposable camera, y2k aesthetic, natural lighting and light leaks through the trees. - by adding the technical data to the end, Flux actually responds to it better. You can mention type of trees, or more background type things, just remeber the KISS method.

  3. Flux does not like high SFG. I hope the dev can adjust perchance main code to allow 1/2 scale so so you can do 2.5, 5.5, etc instead of whole numbers. Flux does prefer 1-5 SFG.

  4. I am not sure if perchance can actually do image steps, I have been messing with that part and it does seem to adjust the quality of the image. Under the image settings code, add a steps = [inout.steps] code line and create a simple step list. I go with 4, 8, and 12 steps. Just something to look into.

  5. Using the old perchance imports for art styles and such, is actually not right. Those are setup for SD and not Flux. Using them without changing the prompt structure will always create bad images.

Seen to many posts here and on reddit where users keep complaining about the t2I generators and wanted to give some insights to help the community. Using Claude, Gronk, Chat gpt to help build prompting is decent, again they tend to over describe things. The ai chat bots you can create do a better job once you setup the persona correctly to fully understand how Flux.1 works and give the bot good guides and instructions to follow.

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So looking over help files I ran into a spot that mentions a starter bot called "Fire Alarm Bot" that is supposed to be able to show how to have a bot edit its own settings? Anyone got a share link for it because I can't find it.

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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by doggybutter@lemmy.world to c/perchance@lemmy.world
 
 

It's giving me an error message, and every time that happens, all my chats are deleted:

TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'isFav')

at addMessageToDb (:4372:18) at async doBotReplyIfNeeded

(:6404:25)

at async

HTMLButton Element.sendButtonClickHandler

(:7817:13)

All browsers, especially Chrome and Firefox, give this error.

From what I've observed, it only happens on mobile devices and not on laptops.

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Curious if anyone else has noticed that the text-to-image function has gotten worse recently. I used to find it pretty great at generating images in a particular style - landscapes that looked like actual paintings, etc., provided I phrased my prompt specifically - but now everything seems to trend towards the "digital painting" style, and photos again look like cut-and-paste collages. I've only been using the default (https://perchance.org/ai-text-to-image-generator) so if this issue is confined to this generator, great. Any insight would be helpful!

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Hi @perchance@lemmy.world, any status update for the Perchance website? Some of the generators seem to be down, as well https://perchance.org/generators. I know you were migrating servers but I just wanted an update on the status of the website. Quite a bit of people were noticing some of the bugs and instability from the website.

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Hi everyone, I’m having trouble with my generator. The page keeps getting stuck on “Loading imported generators…” and shows this error: An error has occurred somewhere in your code (in lists or HTML): An unhandled promise rejection occurred: Load failed Does anyone know what causes this “Load failed” when importing generators? Is there a limit on how many generators I can import, or maybe one of them is broken? I would really appreciate any help 🙏 https://perchance.org/pba3dna0gh

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This page isn’t working If the problem continues, contact the site owner. HTTP ERROR 521

Whole Perchance platform wide

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Hey, to whomever it may concern, the image gen is down, it just loops between "waiting" and "Failed: fetch failure. Retrying.." for an hour now.

I checked five deferent generators including qinegen and ai-art-generator-advanced.

Also i tried two different vpns and fice different locations.

So I'm pretty sure it's from the site itself.

Pls fix it, thank you for this great platform!

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I keep getting this error whenever I open the advanced ai character chat. I am sadly not good with technology and I cannot open the HTML editor on this computer. Please help me with this error <3 I hope there is something that can be done, any troubleshooting tips or ideas that might be able to fix it? Thank you

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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by ccufcc@lemmy.world to c/perchance@lemmy.world
 
 

The collab password embedded in the URL is incorrect, or there was some other issue.

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There was a problem while loading this generator. If your internet connection is slow or intermittent, this could be the cause. Please try reloading the page.

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It looks like the collaboration link you're using is incorrect or has been invalidated. Would you like to save your own copy of this generator?

code list could still be sync cross device but has no effect??? html won't sync????

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Completely ignoring prompts, instead giving a pre determined image. There are a few that it cycles between but they are nearly pixel identical (more identical than just generating with the same seed, More like the same image with a slight pixel disruption layer.)

There are two images that I myself have gotten but other users report similar results violating their generation batches.

Most frequently the cursed images are overlapping with a glitchy colorful look, like offset square duplicates of the images.

The cursed images are nsfw underage characters.

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For the life of me, I cannot get this AI to understand. I tried with the simplest prompts, the most complex prompts, I just cant get it to do this. I am trying to achieve a slicked back, extremely tightly-pulled severe ponytail.

That scraped back look, like Ariana used to do, or that you see in fashion shoots now and then. If you just google "extremely tight ponytail," the world is full of examples, but apparently this AI has simply never heard of such a thing.

Not only can I not get it to do this, half the shots are from the back. Even if I specify a front view, it wants to show me a rear view of a ponytail. When it does show from the front (or even side, fine, I'll take it...) it always responds with some weird-ass poof at the scalp, and fucking flyaway hairs that frame the face. Every time with those flyaways, grrrr. I used to get this by adding a bunch of negatives, but now I just cant make it happen.

Trying for extremely tight, scraped back, gelled down, so-tight-it-hurts ponytail.

Help me Obi Wan...

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The Character chat (the one with images) Seems to not be responding. I've restarted my computer and cleared the file, then re-imported it and the issue persists. It seems to just get stuck attempting to generate a response before eventually submitting a blank reply.

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  • Expected: always new, never repeating seed
  • Now: repeating between #1 - #2 or #2 - #3, with sometimes new seeds
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Apparently this is on the Reddit and on the Discord, but the guy forgot to tell us.

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