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Hi there @perchance@lemmy.world,

Saw one of your posts in here and thought I'd give you a little cheer.

For what it's worth, you're making a big difference with Perchance, and you should not beat yourself up for lagging behind in terms of latest technologies. Perchance for me personally was the first place where I've delved into the world of AI generation that didn't limit me in terms of creativity. Thanks to you I've gotten to know a bit more about Stable Diffusion and prompting in general. This was a kickstart to explore it further. Without perchance I would have probably just shrugged the whole AI generation thing off and called it a day.

Thanks to you and perchance, I've found a community that I talk to this day. It's been more than a year now. And this is, my man, something for you to be proud of. You created something that connects people. The comments plugin comes with its own challenges and creepy people, but this is an absolute killer feature that distinguishes perchance from other AI platforms. Real time communication while generating is a unique and amazing way to connect with others. Forum posts just don't cut it today, because everyone is used to instant messaging these days.

Don't listen to people who complain about perchance being horribly out of date. These people don't know what they're talking about. They didn't lay a finger to improve perchance in any way. Pulling off a project like perchance is not an easy feat. Not to mention that you do this voluntarily, and it costs nothing for us. Take all the time you need, and take pride in your work - because it does makes a difference.

Hugs from furry generator, Perp

Hi @perchance@lemmy.world,

I was wondering if you're planning to make it possible to access elements inside iframes (such as userInputs, comments, gallery)? Using an editor can be pretty limiting at times. It would unlock so much new ways of customizing your own generators if one had access to elements inside iframes to work with them using JavaScript/HTML/CSS. I was just working with some of the user inputs, and didn't realize that even these are inside an iframe as well... which is quite a bummer. I understand that it probably makes sense from architectural standpoint, though.

Thanks!

Hi,

I would like to propose an interesting UX change for text to image plugin. I want to propose to shift from "public by default" approach, because it leads to ease of misuse of it. Generator owners have to deal with people who do not respect the rules of the generator and pollute public gallery with images that are either repetitive or just inappropriate

When you're new to image generation and perchance, it's quite easy to get lost. Public gallery often ends up being a playground/scratchpad as opposed to showcase of the user's best effort. A lot of people do not bother switching to other galleries. Some people also just do not read the chat (or do not participate), but still upload images and end up getting banned without even knowing that the moderator gave them a verbal warning in a chat. It can create tension and misunderstanding between the staff and the visitor.

What I want to propose is this:

• Upon first visit to generator, Perchance could ask the name of the gallery which would act as a "private" gallery for the user.
• Such gallery becomes the default gallery for the user on this generator (meaning that the name of the gallery will be pre-entered in the saving image modal window input field for the name of the gallery, like public currently, as well as it would open by default, again, like the public one currently does).
• The pill for the public gallery should be made impossible to close, and should always come first in the list of quick access galleries.
• The pill for the user-defined "private" gallery could also be made impossible to close (until the local storage is cleared), and should come second in the list of quick access galleries.
• Other galleries for the user could be closable.
• Users should be disallowed to upload into public gallery directly. Using public as name of a gallery to upload image to should be an error. Instead, users have to go through their own galleries and click a button that would duplicate generated image into public gallery, simply by the click of such button. No need to enter public anywhere, just click the button and the image is copied into public gallery immediately. Such copy should be allowed to happen exactly once. The button should also be available to click on/tap right away without having to hover, like upvote/downvote buttons and the others currently are.

I personally think that this approach would allow newcomers to feel safer while experimenting, yet still be able to get feedback on their prompting and encourage people who are already experienced in prompting to be more picky with the images that they want to share with everyone. Both sides are happy.

On behalf of furry-ai gen community I would like to present a list of UX/UI improvements suggestions, which I hope users of other gens will find useful too.

Prompting

• Introduce copy button in prompt and anti prompt fields for better UX on mobile (click to copy)
• Change anti-prompt field to be textarea (the one you can drag to expand)
• Fix bug that makes it impossible to save a landscape-oriented image to the gallery without resorting to changing phone's screen orientation (heart button is out of bounds, and I'm not the only one experiencing this)

Gallery Plugin

• On mobile, thumbs up and thumbs down buttons on images in the gallery should show up without having to tap on an image to reveal these buttons to make it easier for people to upvote or downvote
• Introduce double tap gestures for mobile users on images in gallery to make voting even easier. Double tap to upvote, double tap on upvoted picture to remove the upvote. Downvote could be without a gesture.
• Implement tagging an image with user ID to prove identity of a poster, which may show up as a flair akin to one that the chat box has as an opt-in (by default all posts to the gallery are anonymous). Currently people tag their work with saveTitle and saveDescription, which is easy to impersonate. It would introduce some complexity for blocking though, then it could be treated in the following manner: blocking anonymous post of user A will block all all further anonymous posts of user A from the gallery, blocking non-anonymous post of user A will block further both anonymous and non-anonymous posts of user A from the gallery.
• Introduce public/private galleries, public galleries being an opt-in (that is, by default gallery is private). It would be nice to have public galleries show up in a dropdown list when posting an image to the gallery or when browsing a gallery. At the very least, it would be nice for perchance to store the galleries that the user visited earlier in local storage, so it is easier to switch between them when saving or browsing, again KISS implementation could be just a simple dropdown list.
• If public/private galleries end up being implemented, consider adding a description field to them.
• Add the ability for the user to delete the images that they upload to the gallery. It's quite weird that this functionality does not exist.
• Blocking button 🚫 and hide image button with crossed eye icon are currently too far apart from one another, which makes it difficult to use because they both represent a form of blocking yet they are visually too far away from one another. From my experience people just go straight up blocking the poster and not the image. Perhaps the concept of blocking could be implemented by a click of a blocking button, and pop up being displayed afterwards asking what the user wants to do (block the user or block the image), or at least group the "hide image" and "block poster" together.
• Implement grid view of images on mobile (similar to what Instagram has). On click, the view could change back to the 1-image-per-row view (again, like on Insta)
• Implement search/filter in galleries (at least most simplistic, regex-based search by prompt and saveTitle/saveDescription)

Comments Plugin

• Make all https://generated-images.perchance.org/ URLs to appear as hyperlinks in chat so that they are clickable, many times it gets annoying having to copy URL manually, even if its within perchance.
• Add the ability to upvote (and possibly downvote) the messages in chatbox
• Add the ability to edit your own messages in chatbox

Other

• Add the ability to talk other people's generated characters found in gallery, not only your own during generation (possibly only with permission of the person who generated the character? Technically prompt is public to everyone, and given that the AI deduces the personality from prompt, it shouldn't be an issue)