Hello! It's been a long while since I haven't posted in this community.
I looked back at earlier screenshots I made before the personal device incident that happened almost a year ago and accidentally stumbled upon some old screenshots of my Generator Manager Preview page (when working on a supposedly huge update of it that was planned to release just days before the incident). Here's what it looks like at a glance:
You can see the live preview of the page here (warning: it's a little broken)
After looking at those screenshots, I immediately thought of myself, "what if I could possibly revive this and finally bring the huge update probably next month since we still have the unfinished draft from months ago?", as I was suddenly energetic enough to continue the update after that. It felt like a huge moment and potential that I definitely wouldn't ever want to deny at some point and still is today.
However, alongside Perchance, I have already worked on other crucial projects that was made long before I started coming back for the first time in 2023, and ever since the incident, I have decided to move on to focus on them much more and started becoming less and less active on Perchance. As I grew up, I've also started focusing more on IRL business and set some new life decisions that it's getting harder to thrive back on Perchance back and forth between those things.
However, that doesn't necessarily mean I'm quitting or leaving Perchance completely. I might "come back" to Perchance again for a while to give some fresh air to those generators when the situation between my Perchance generators and my other project business is a bit more relaxed.
If I could, I might also plan on finishing the long-buried Generator Manager update and finally release it to the stable channel, but in a different fashion! ๐คฉ But for now, I'll just interact with the community as best as I can until I changed my mind.
(By the way, we're almost reaching 100K total views across all generators?? ๐ฒ)
I also have big projects outside Perchance. Because i like generating images tho, even if I'm not building anything else at the time, I'm still on Perchance frequently. Perchance is also where i make things for fun, or because it's a casual coding environment, or if I want people to see them. My music artist site is great on Perchance cuz there are people that view it every time I do an update. And today I'm making frontend's for my friend's resort as private pages on Perchance cuz why not? can move them to their own domains later. So my advice is you don't have to force yourself to keep updating for views if there's no other reason and it's pulling your focus from better uses of your focus. But if you make new projects from time to time, especially if they are personal ones, Perchance may be a naturally good place to do it and sort of 'organically' pull you on to Perchance.
And Imo personal projects are important. I know a coder that used to love coding in his free time, then he worked as a coder and stopped doing it for fun, then, when he stopped working he also didn't code for fun or for himself. I also almost fell in to that trap.
I think perchance is great for personal products. And they don't have to be shallow. Tho Perchance is very free and has an air of morality, there's nothing stopping someone from using their own server behind a Perchance frontend, morally having purchasable items, and REALLY investing their time in to building something on Perchance as if it will fund their livelihood later.
Anyway, we simultaneously miss you but also proud of and think it important you are branching out and using that awesome intellect making potentially more powerful things.
Will be interesting to see where your path takes you!
I see! I'm very glad that I'm not the only one that started my journey on Perchance and then takes off of it to work on even more ambitious outside-Perchance projects.