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Perchance - Create a Random Text Generator

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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.

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[dev] Using $meta, you can now ~hide the header bar, and change its color/background, and add tags to your generator (perchance.org)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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By "hide" I mean it shows a button in the top-right, which when clicked, shows the full header bar.

Examples:

Please let me know if you run into any issues or have feedback ๐Ÿ™

Edit: Also, for people who know some JavaScript, you can use the public generator list API to get generators with specific tags like this:

let data = await fetch(`https://perchance.org/api/getGeneratorList?tags=foo`).then(r => r.json()); // returns generators tagged 'foo'
let data = await fetch(`https://perchance.org/api/getGeneratorList?tags=foo,bar`).then(r => r.json()); // foo AND bar
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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Cool update!! ๐Ÿ˜ƒ I didn't know there will be this customization option because of the new navigation bar (I noticed that yesterday). For some reason, my user style made it look like the little tab buttons for me (and I kind of wanted to keep it for now). I do still need that "resources" link, so you might probably want to link it somewhere in the welcome page so I can access it from there instead.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's currently linked on the /generators page at the top, alongside plugins + templates. But I agree that's not ideal.. Maybe I should add a drop-down menu type thing, so there can be more options without cluttering the header with too many buttons

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Any updates?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I see, though the new navigation bar is probably one of the biggest Perchance updates I've ever seen.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Can we please have options to show more than the generators page on the top bar on mobile? I would add the hub and like 1 other page link (resources maybe) to the top bar of beautiful people.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Cool cool... Could be an accessibility/contrast nightmare, but such are the risks we take for customisation I guess ๐Ÿ˜œ

What you could do is, give the text in the bar a subtle lighter drop-shadow to help with contrast even when the background is dark. Or just straight-up give them their own background color so they always look the same.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Also, since I know you're interested in this sort of thing: Today I also removed the <div id="output-container"></div> inside the body to bring things closer to being "just HTML+JS+CSS". So everything in the HTML editor goes directly into the <body>. For backwards compat, the <body> element has id="output-container", and beyond that there were only a few generators that had to be semi-manually fixed. Small improvement, but that was annoying me for a long time. The bigger and more painful task (in terms of ensuring backwards-compat) is that square block vs script tag escaping stuff ๐Ÿฅฒ

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Would be grateful if you could tweak the default styles to not apply to body, #output-container because that overrides a simple body selector it seems.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh, could you give an example?

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well the defaults set text-align:center. I want it left-aligned. But if I just use body { text-align:left; } it won't override, because an id selector (as in the defaults) has a higher specificity. So anything you set in the defaults will still need to use that id to be able to override.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ah, thanks! Fixed

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

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