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Hi @[email protected],

I have another suggestion. Whenever the new message arrives to the channel that is not a current channel that the user is in, the tab should get highlighted with some color. General channel is the one that the users land in when they open a generator, and they tend to spend most of their time there, ignoring other channels. It often leads to people posting questions to General instead of appropriate channels simply because these other channels are ignored. It can sometimes get disturbing when people start talking about 18+ topics in General instead of appropriate one. General should be kept for general discussion. I think that this feature would be a good step toward guiding users to appropriate channels without other users gnawing at them.

P.S. Report message feature was much needed, thanks for implementing it. A slight nitpick - the shadow/blur in it can be more transparent. In light mode, it does not fit well.

Thank you! :)

This would allow things like linking to a specific heading in the tutorial, for example.

You could also make the hash accessible to the generator app. (I don't know if the url is already available.)

Since the new backups feature was released, which adds an ability to create restore points of generators in a case I accidentally closed a tab while the generator isn't saved yet. But I sometimes work on updating generators through a logged-out session or, when creating a new generator (hitting the new button in the navigation bar and it opens up the minimal template), which is in an unowned generators session (only save and account buttons in the top-right).

And so, I'd need that feature to work on these kinds of environments, so I don't ever have to worry losing all the work there, especially when creating new generators.

Dear Perchance Dev,

I request if it would be possible to display GIFs from Tenor similarly to how it is displayed on Discord. In that regard, if it is possible.

It would be another great opportunity to finally utilize an option to display images, for example ![Alt Text](image_url) on another note, it would be a creative option if width and height could have been been specified, well, in a manner akin to CSS width: 100%; height: auto; and though this is not strict, being able to use display block or inline would be great if we are to add both texts and images.

About the links, I currently know of a simple and similar markdown to set up links as well, [Link Text](url). Though I have noticed only Perchance links can be shared.

I leave these suggestions onto you, I would greatly appreciate it if you could add these. 🙂‍↕️✉️

I was also thinking what if you were to recreate an entirely new plugin specifically designed for a more superior interface and features. If you are considering this, the above suggestions mentioned should be dedicated to this specific one to avoid unnecessary efforts. Though we can take it slow at a time.

If you are to consider these, you could also set up the "bots" mechanism. And, as an Admin of a Gen, the control over it feels very limited, I have moderators helping me, but they aren't able to take actions such banning. Thinking of banning, we don't always need to band people, a timeout is also efficient.

Whenever I have to ban toxic people, I have to tell my members, "Guys, please refresh" which is not something too bad, but it soon starts to give a strange vibe to it as I have to ban exceptional amount of people. Also, there should be a universal ID to ban across all the places. 😥

And, it all sounds easy from these texts, I understand it is not so easy. Which is why, I, and we as community, would like to offer you the help we are able to provide, for example alpha testing, help with codes, etc.

It feels as if I am saying you are not good on your own, but I am simply eager to help to ease the burden. Thank you for considering this. ♥️

i think the suggestion itself is not nsfw so it shouldn't be tagged nsfw. Anyway, I have noticed trillions of times now that there is an everpresent issue among people trying to generate nsfw images that are not specifically Anthro nor Anime that the HD and Realistic model or models seem badly or not trained on NSFW content. It is a question I and probably everyone with an ai art generator has had asked of us. Also, tons of people generate NSFW images. I believe, as far as models perchance text-to-image could have, realistic nsfw is the one that currently is the biggest missing model that, if present, would appeal to most people.

Sometimes when I save generators while it was still unfinished or, in a case, it's still under development, I'd like to add a note into any of these generators that it's unfinished on under development while I can keep them private for a long time. Or you could write anything you want as a note to any generator in the menu.

Someone on the chat of generators page at 1:14am today asked: "How do I find roleplays here? I find the generator overwhelming but if I go to search it just takes me to google. I assumed creations would show me like a.i people have already made"

I remember a while ago Perchance saying Findability could be improved. I agree and had been thinking maybe have a community event of everyone suggest stuff for 'generator finding' and for a while dabbled in recording which generators passed thru the Generators page that I thought people really cared about and were following up on and making a personally curated list, which I know many others have occasionally thought similarly and tried.

But none of that is really a concrete followable step by step improvement. Tonight tho, with that comment, here is one: Make the Search feature a real feature.

Right now it DOES feel 'underwhelming' in that someone clicks Search at the top of the Generator's page, and then it is 'surprisingly disappointing' when it does not really search through generators, but opens up a google with a specific search term. So here is a concrete suggestion as to improving findability while also pulling up something that has fallen behind in quality compared to everything around it: Upgrade Search Function on Generators Page. Make the search a real thing :)

Dear Perchance Dev,

I would like to make a request to be able to format the files' links and names at /upload.

Currently, it displays them as: ${file_name} → ${file_url} (${file_size}) 📋 copy url ❌ delete however, I need to be able to format them as: ${file_name} /* without the extension */ = ${file_url} /* including 'https://' */.

The reason for this is because of the new custom emoji feature at the comment's plugin.

I could have made this suggestion sooner, but I did not because I had my own method to format them, however I know there are many people who will be needing this formatting method. That is because of this:

!

As you can see, I have an absurd amount of links, and formatting them one by one would not be efficient.

For that reason, I would like a formatting method at /upload.

• EDIT: I believe the most flexible and powerful formatting options would be to take user input formatting in a text manner, for example a user could input; ${file_url} which would only display the URL. And this could be curated to their own needs.

Dear Perchance Dev,

I believe the emoji popup layout should be like this: !

And not like this: !

The reason to do this is because the one I introduced allows the full view of the emoji and its name, plus it becomes easy to select the desired emoji and it allows scrolling, meaning if there are too many emojis, it will not break. This is similar to Discord's emoji selection.

Next, I think the displayed emoji should be enlarged, a little. If not possible, there should be a method to enlarge it, either through the Perchance panel, or something like this, :toro_silly:(1.5). The unit displayed, (1.5) could be used via multiplication, the 1 unit would be the default size, while the, 1.5 would be the multiplied size.

Regardless, there should be a customization option for this directly in the perchance panel to change the default emoji size.

Dear Perchance Dev, I would like to make another request. It is about profile pictures and images. The process is simple, a user could be allowed to have a profile picture, this could be done via having a image uploaded to a CDN (Content Delivery Network) such as Perchance's own, or through other image hosting platform.

Just like how nicknames are set, a user profile could be set from the settings defined. The profile pictures could even be animated gif or WebP.

(Optional) However, the admins should have at least the ability to hide individual users' profile picture, as some users may choose to use inappropriate pictures which could be potentially harmful to many. *** The image upload could be achieved using a similar method; linking an already uploaded image. Uploading images directly to Perchance's server might put a heavy load, thus linking them through link might be a better option. There should be another button for the image(s) to be linked.

Thank you very much.

[Suggestion] Blocking certain words in comments, not just users in the Comments Plugin

So, there's already a feature to block specific tags so comments with those tags won't show up anymore. But what if you could also block comments based on keywords (even if they're sent from different tags)? Also, there should be a separate "unblock all" command for blocked users and words.

Please ping the Dev so they know about this.

@perchance

JadeRavens made a post on Reddit about the remember-plugin not being able to 'remember' the radio buttons.

So, I made a modification of the remember-plugin that handles the radio button groups. Here is the demo generator for it.

Essentially, it takes the 'group' of the buttons (by using .querySelectorAll to select all inputs that have the same name of the radio button) then saving the state of each radio button.

Which means that in the group, only one is checked and the others are not checked.

Though I am having problems with the saving of the value of a variable since after the second reload of the page, it will point to the last value.

The steps to see the problem (if there is an update() in the oninput of the radio button) is:

1. Click a radio button.
2. Reload the page, the variable will point to the last value in the group.

If there is no update() on the oninput, it will take two reloads of the page to point to the last value in the group.

EDIT: Seems to have fixed it by removing the triggerEvent upon loading the state/value of the inputs. Though, I'm sure there is a good reason why the 'triggerEvent' are there.

Just a suggestion for the links in the navbar to be a revamped on mobile since currently the navbar on mobile looks something like this:

!

In which we cannot access the 'community', 'tutorial', 'hub' or 'generators'. Maybe a dropdown upon clicking the 'perchance' button or a side menu popup. Thanks!

@[email protected]