Nevermind the implementation of search in-browser, I never realized that the gallery itself is inside an iframe, and therefore is difficult to manipulate!

Ouch, my bad I never noticed this. Thank you for clarification!

True with the iframes. However, once the image is in the gallery, it is just a div. Prompt lives inside a div.image-desc, in title attribute. One could write very basic search engine that parses all such divs, tokenizes tags and filters out what user is looking for.

Cool, from me and many other mobile users - thank you! Upvote/downvote button and the gallery switching UI is great, may take some time getting used to, but does the job for now. As far as searching goes, as I’ve mentioned, a lot of people don’t bother creating galleries and just dump their stuff in public. One could search by their signature (e.g. generated by ..., art by..., etc), for example, if they later wish to retrieve their image and do something with it (move to other gallery, reupload somewhere else, etc). Also while this is very specific to furry generator, furry content is heavily tagged, and people could easily search anything of their interest, by species, by sexuality, anything really. Or, we on our generator have certain people who upload disturbing and borderline illegal images but always use the same tags, that would make it this much easier to block all of their images at once. Of course it would be nice to have the search that is searching in entire gallery, but as first step, searching within currently loaded pages locally in user’s browser could be a good start. You could gauge if this is something used commonly, then move to implementing it properly if you deem this feature important. We personally have a small community (~50 people) where we could host a poll to help you out on this to an extent that we can.

Yep, I see what you’re getting at. The grid view like that could be an opt-in which will hide the buttons until clicked/tapped on an image (and thus getting brought back to normal view). The purpose is just getting rid of the need of extensive scrolling when browsing. I am not very strong with front-end so I apologize for my ignorance, but I think that dynamically adding and removing a class grid-view or something on a gallery container when grid view is active can do the trick. We force the container to apply flexbox with three small squares in a row. Buttons can simply enter into hidden visibility - or only upvote/downvote buttons can be present for convenience - when grid view like that is active and a tap/click on an image removes said class, bringing back the usual view along with the buttons. I could do a small POC when I have a minute, just sharing my thoughts for now. :)

re UI: Ok, noted. Since we got the room 3 renamed by the staff in here, that would be appreciated for anti-prompt field to be changed to textarea too.

re private/public galleries: Yes, that I understand and I don’t mind it being like that. What I had in mind is the concept of public/private also affecting whether the gallery would show up on dropdown list when saving generated image (instead of only having to manually type the name of the gallery). You know, it gets tedious having to manually type in the name of the gallery (don’t get me started on having them remembered), and a way to organize generated images would be very nice, so that people don’t dump everything into public all the time and can have easier time finding what they want.

re grid like images: Indeed, I use perchance from the mobile often. What I had in mind for a grid like that is a grid that resizes images to very small squares that gives you a gist of what’s on an image so that you can navigate the gallery faster, kinda like on Insta: https://imgur.com/a/8ZXb3k1 (Insta shows this kind of grid view regardless of screen size). This is doable with CSS tweaks.

re chat upvote/downvote: It could be seen as a way for people to make some very simple polls that requires a yes or no answer for instance, instead of polluting a chat.

re chatting with other people generations: It is doable by copy pasting a prompt indeed. But a very simple change in the UX (people are generally lazy, and they want to be catered to their laziness) can have significant improvement on quality of life, IMO. Many times people were showing interest to chat with characters they see in the gallery, but not many bother manually changing a prompt to do so.

Gave it a quick test just now, seems to be working properly. Thank you!

Unfortunately, this is not the case. Everyone is able to see it. See chat in General room of this throw away generator: https://perchance.org/username-bug-demo

You mean that other users can read, but not participate? I don’t think this would do any justice though. You don’t want for any random visitor to read a moderator lounge, or room for 18+ roleplay, for instance. I agree with your statement about it being an invitation for illegal activities, but at the same time if you think about it, creating private generators is already doing the same thing and having password protected rooms is no different, just improves the UX. One can easily slap a comment plugin on a private generator and do as they please without anyone having a clue.

Agree, thanks a lot!

I understand where you’re coming from, and I understand that freedom of expression is one of the values of perchance. I am part of the community and I’ve been on this gen for months now so I know what I am talking about. I genuinely care about people on it, and I’m not the only one who has been raising concerns about certain issues, and majority of people who are a part of this gen’s community would agree. I get the hint about other gens, though. Appreciate your input regardless.

Fine - well, as I’ve mentioned, trolling and impersonation can sometimes get over the top, which is impossible to resolve without the banhammer. There is no one there to pin some sort of manual to users to encourage account and username registration to avoid this, and it is exhausting explaining this over and over. Also, I’ve just remembered - there is an issue of separating NSFW stuff from SFW more clearly, at least on chat room level, to discourage minors from peeking. I don’t think there is an easy solution to that, though, but we want to have space where people can enjoy themselves and don’t feel creepy regardless of their age. Content wise, as much as furry community is accepting of fetishisms, some stuff is absolutely unacceptable - such as an equivalent of CP and sexualization of minors (you asked for it, sorry). In my book, there is no place for stuff like this even in form of generated image.

Yeah, it’s somewhat tricky, this gen shows up as one of first results on Google, and it will be hard to top that. That’s how people find it. We don’t mind doing it either way, either reaching out to the gen admin or taking the responsibility of moderating it, as soon as it prevents the bad stuff. What’s perchance’s policy about gens that have no factual ownership? Is there a way to contact the owner of a generator somehow?

A little bit of both. Trolling, impersonating other people and some generations that no one should be seeing. I can provide more details in private if needed.