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Perchance - Create a Random Text Generator

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โš„๏ธŽ 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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Just finished a web coding primer, for the perchance community. I'm hoping it helps people get started with the non-perchance side of perchance quicker and easier. ๐Ÿ‘

(It's not intended as full documentation, just a taster of common features, and a glimpse of more complex concepts so people know they can search for them elsewhere.)

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

By the way, if anyone knowledgeable wants to look it over and suggest something should be included or clarified, I'm all ears ๐Ÿ‘

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Dont have time atm to go further and on Comments currently but here's this

Some text in red has periods some not grammar Second sentence is not a full sentence grammatically. You do this some but i only marked this one. its should be it's

also i would detail more the three different Quote options

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Ooh, scrummy feedback! Cheers!

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I've tweaked the styles for the code labels above the code examples by the way. Hopefully it will look/behave better on your device now.

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

Thanks for those ๐Ÿ‘

Regarding the grammar points, I'm a writer, so I get what you mean. But in the more casual style which I prefer, when incomplete sentences are really continuances from the previous sentence are actually okay. It really matches how we speak every day. We don't talk thinking about sentences and punctuation; it's more like one huge run-on sentence. This is how it looks in text.

I don't write everything like that obviously, but that's where such constructions come from, and why they exist in fiction and other less formal text. In my documentation (here and elsewhere) I'm not going for a formal style, but a more casual one. It gives me more leeway to write expressively, while I also make it very clear on the technical side.

If your way of writing is different, that's all fine of course. But that note in particular just isn't what I'm going for. I may or may not change such things, on a case by case basis.

its: in that case it's a possessive "its", which does not have an apostrophe. When the possessor is "it" we just use an "s" without the apostrophe. [article] Only if it's a contraction (as in it is ๐Ÿ‘‰ it's) would it have an apostrophe. ๐Ÿ‘

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

also i notice your font isn't Emilys Candy; but that's ok. I forgive you. (just this once)

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Emilys Candy

Had to look that one up--LOL ๐Ÿคฃ

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

Thanks V :D

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

@[email protected] My generator has a blank screenshot on the generator page; no idea how to fix that. I've got a nice image in my $meta of course ;p

What should I do to get it to re-screenshot or whatever?

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

Thanks, I think I've fixed this. If you save your generator again, it should get re-screenshotted.

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

Ah it's already got a new screenshot I see. Somehow ๐Ÿ˜…

Thanks ๐Ÿ‘