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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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Is this parameter needed? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago by Cocell@lemmy.world to c/perchance@lemmy.world
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The parameter I am talking about specifically is the __generatorLastEditTime parameter.

This is a visual example:

The URL: https://perchance.org/vue-router?__generatorLastEditTime=1752040569107#/

Is there any problem in removing it?

I was using Vue Router with its createWebHashHistory() API to make hash routes for an application, since Perchance doesn't support actual routes for apps.

I made a simple logic to simply remove it.

const url = new URL(location.href)
url.searchParams.delete('__generatorLastEditTime')
history.replaceState(null, '', url)

Now you get a cleaner URL instead.

The URL: https://perchance.org/vue-router#/about

You can check out the project here.

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[–] Cocell@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

So, I decided to to look into Perchance's internal code myself, since I couldn't get an answer.

A screenshot that shows Perchance's internal scripts using the __generatorLastEditTime parameter and __initWithDataFromParentWindow parameter along with some other logic.

And it looks like Both the __generatorLastEditTime parameter and the __initWithDataFromParentWindow parameter are needed ONLY during the initial load.

And looking at this part of the code, it seems like Perchance dev is already moving away from the __generatorLastEditTime parameter.

// if(window.location.href.includes("__generatorLastEditTime=")) return;

So, I am assuming it is fine to remove these two parameters after the app has loaded. However, I could be wrong, these are just my general understanding after looking into the internal logic.