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Perchance - Create a Random Text Generator

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⚄︎ 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!

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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.
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Problems with RSS output (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by dedaluslogic@lemmy.world to c/perchance@lemmy.world
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I run three BlueSky bots based on Perchance that rely on the rss feed outputing. Since I edited two of the generators today the feed stopped updating and is stuck in the "This is a placeholder. You may need to wait up to 5 minutes for the first actual generated result to arrive" message, for many hours now. The one generator I didn't edit is working fine with the feed. It never took hours for the feed to update after editing and saving the generator.

Is there any problems on the side of Perchance or Glitch?

Thank you.

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[–] perchance@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Hi @dedaluslogic@lemmy.world sorry about that. I just fixed up the RSS feeds, and made them more future-proof and generally "robust" compared to the old glitch.me server. I am now also hosting them under a "proper" perchance subdomain (as suggested by @VioneT@lemmy.world a while ago):

https://rss-feeds.perchance.org/animal-sentence

Just change animal-sentence to your generator name. Note that the glitch server still exists, but now it simply redirects to rss-feeds.perchance.org, so the glitch RSS feed URLs will continue to work.

Let me know if there are any problems with this new server - since it's new, there may be some initial bugs to work through.

(btw, what approach did you use to create a bluesky bot with the RSS feeds? if it's easy enough for people without a lot of coding knowledge, i'd like to create a tutorial page for it, so it'd be handy if you could share a rough outline)

[–] dedaluslogic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Hi @perchance@lemmy.world. Thank you for the fix!

It's very simple to set a bot in Bsky, thanks to the "AT protocol" technology they use. It's basically a page of javascript code that runs in Google Apps Script with triggers. With a detailed tutorial I think anyone can set it up. Let me know where I can send you the template code and the steps.

[–] VioneT@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

@perchance@lemmy.world pinging dev.

[–] dedaluslogic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

To clarify: it uses the botOutput list and the "https:// perchance-rss-feeds.glitch. me/[generator]" url

[–] dedaluslogic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I now tried to create a DIY Perchance API on my Glitch account (to replace the feed) and it is unable to load new generators besides the animal-sentence; I get a 503 Request timedout. Might be a related problem?