Another time to say, "long time not posting on this community", but here we go!
There is one question I've wanting to ask about the recent update about the dark mode on the main/official Perchance pages: is there a way to disable them only for the pages (i.e. keep the pages in light mode without having to turn off the dark mode completely)? Most of the time my eyes just don't get comfortable enough reading the text in the dark mode.
I'd also suggest putting a button to toggle the dark mode on/off just like we have on the Hub on these pages.
Haven't been posting in this community for a while, but I'm here just to share a tip (I think there hasn't been anybody asking for this here yet) that someone on Discord has suggested on. This only works on computers with developer tools though, and I think you could do this in Firefox too.
Here's how to do it:
localStorage.previouslyUploadedFiles
. It'll then give you a JSON of the upload list that you can copy the given string provided to a text file and transfer it to another computer you'd want to access the uploads for.Right click and select "Copy string contents" ("Copy Message" in Firefox). Then, paste it into a text file somewhere that you can transfer through a media like a USB to be transferred into the other computer.
In another computer, repeat the first two steps above, and then write this:
localStorage.previouslyUploadedFiles = [upload list content from the text file]
[upload list content from the text file]
part with the contents from the text file you've just transferred, and then hit Enter. This will magically set the upload list to the one you have in your primary computer.And that's it! The upload list isn't synced though, but at least could be useful for keeping stuff in. Feel free to add something missing here if you like! 😊
So I've been inactive for a full week, but at least I'm back here for now! There are some serious things I want to talk about just to keep your eyes out on the generator updating journey, especially with the ongoing huge 2.0.20.1 Generator Manager update development.
Last week I've just experienced one of the most devastating events of my entire journey with my personal device I usually use to work on the managing and updating generators and also off-Perchance side projects. A big incident happened where my personal device somehow got blue-screened for a while and then after turning it back on, after a while, it just bricked up and stopped working while I was working on the Preview update (coincidentally with the mass worldwide Windows outage that happened at the time) and had to be repaired for several days. I wasn't able to do much other than constantly checking and updating the generator hub page on mobile during that time.
Sadly, all the data inside was lost for good, and was pretty much unrecoverable, including all the off-Perchance side projects that I've been working for many days on. I then became disappointed and demotivated for a while knowing all the data on the old hard drive on the device was lost due to the event.
That's when I decided to spend most of my time with the repaired device to restore and rebuild everything to a state used to be before it was lost, even though it'll not be exactly 100%. And that's where I'm going to spend most of the time doing that, going onto the big recovery business, using most of my mind on rebuilding all the side projects I've ever spent my time on and doing other important stuff for a couple weeks.
Luckily enough, I've already backed up my unfinished Generator Manager update code, so I don't have to struggle re-writing each of the lines ever again! I've also backed up some of the raw files for the generator trailers, so I don't have to create the trailers from scratch. But once everything's back to normal again, I can finally spend more time exploring some good stuff on Perchance and continue working on the huge 2.0.20.1 update (I'll be posting a new trailer once I'm ready for that).
But don't worry, I'll not going to fully go out of Perchance, I'll still be revisiting the site whenever I wanted to. And see the moments my generator hub page reaching 30.0k views and congratulating it, speaking of which, I'll be planning something else for the milestone... (here's a progress bar for now!)
So that's all I have to say! I hope this goes well and quick enough that I can start working on the Preview update again in no time. 😌
Bonus question: Has everything changed on Perchance recently during my full-week break? I've wanted to check actually, but I was too lazy to do it because of the business.
Since the new backups feature was released, which adds an ability to create restore points of generators in a case I accidentally closed a tab while the generator isn't saved yet. But I sometimes work on updating generators through a logged-out session or, when creating a new generator (hitting the new button in the navigation bar and it opens up the minimal template), which is in an unowned generators session (only save and account buttons in the top-right).
And so, I'd need that feature to work on these kinds of environments, so I don't ever have to worry losing all the work there, especially when creating new generators.
This is a pretty interesting topic to talk about. Whenever I feel want to bring a generator to the top of the generators page, hoping for a few people to click on them through the page, I always feel like the only way is to save the generator and made some tiny changes if possible. But, what if I don't want to actually change any of the content in a generator, and still be able to save it?
Well, I know there's now a system where if you edit a generator and then undo/edit it back to its exact original/saved state (basically reverting it) Perchance will auto-detect that and the save button will go back to the saved state. This is a great feature honestly, but it's still possible to do the trick but the generator's content needs to be different from the original state, at least a character off. For example, adding an unobtrusive space around the lists code, or moving the list items up or down (Ctrl+Shift+Up
/Ctrl+Shift+Down
) and then saving right away.
But what do you think about this?
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