The comments plugin has a new feature that allows you to access the “stream” of comments as they are submitted to your comments box. So now you can “do stuff” on your page in response to comments that people make.

Title is (mostly) a joke, but it wouldn’t be toooo hard to create simple multiplayer games like chess or little point-and-click worlds that people can play on your page via the comments (just need to ignore invalid user moves/inputs based on the rules of the game you’re making).

I expect a few perchance devs to play around with some “mad science” along those lines, but for most people, probably the most useful thing here is that it allows you to completely customize the way comments are displayed. Including e.g. adding avatar pics to comments, changing the background image of every comment based on the keywords in it, making confetti fly across the page (for everyone) when someone says a secret/“easter egg” keyword, and so on.

Examples:

  • BluePowerEnglish
    3•7 months ago

    Nice update! This gives me an idea to add a feature where users could make and save their own unrandomized abstract flag based on the user’s specific “prompt” details in my Power Flag Generator and do a bunch of things, e.g. chat commands, for example when the user sent this comment:

    layout: diagonal, emblem: star, unique: true, advanced: true

    Then it’ll pop up this flag, without affecting any configurations in the options:

    Or: layout: random, emblem: none

    Then it’ll pop up a flag like this, with a random layout:

    Or: layout: vertical triple, enable country details, enable advanced colors, comment: hai

    pops up a flag like this: , enables advanced colors and country details, and sent that user’s comment after the comment: part.

    Or maybe, users could randomize the flag just by saying this: random , acts the same as clicking on the randomize button.

    And randomize a specific part of the flag like this: random: 1

    Or emblems: random: 0

    All of these “prompts” will be saved to a separate container that when clicked, pops up that exact flag the prompt generates (also got this idea from your last example mentioned).

    I know these could also be doable with slash commands, but such a variant will prevent the command from being sent into the comments section. And I’ll add that too.

    /generate layout: vertical triple, emblem: circle

    I also wanted to implement a feature so that users can also select each individual color for the flag they wanted; but this requires assigning ids into each layout maker component. I can do that for myself using some JS, but I think this would be a great feature if you can assign an id into each area of the layout-maker-plugin.

    • BluePowerEnglish
      2•7 months ago

      Also, this feature could be used as a storage for saving image prompts or something (for AI image generators that provide a separate chat for sharing prompts), that when clicked, it’ll generate images based on that prompt

      • @AdComfortable1514English
        2•7 months ago

        (And if @[email protected] is reading this , being able to add the .json save-file to the images in the image gallery would be helpful. Either within the EXIF metadata of the saved image png , or within a hidden “text field” that can store additional info apart from the text prompt, or something similiar)

      • @AdComfortable1514English
        2•7 months ago

        Such a chat-feature would be really useful to me!

        I just added a feature where users can save the generator prompt settings as a json file: https://perchance.org/fusion-ai-image-generator

        So maybe copy-pasting the .json file could create a compact link or something.

        Then another user clicks the link and it will load into the generator. IDK

        Haven’t added this new chat format yet. Open to ideas.

        • @perchanceOPMEnglish
          3•7 months ago

          IIUC, the upload plugin is perfect for what you want to achieve here: https://perchance.org/upload-plugin

          It’s used to create settings/character/etc. share links for e.g.

          Examples (linked from the upload-plugin page):

          Let me know if I misunderstood though

          • @AdComfortable1514English
            2•7 months ago

            Thanks! Yeah , this is great !

            I’m thinking of creating some sort of space where people can share their generator settings with each other.

            So for example , if Bob has configured the fusion generator to generate " frogs on a beach" or something , he can save the settings he used and upload them to a shared directory

            Then Alice can download that savefile , load it into the generator and generate “frogs on a beach” on her device.

            It would be nice to have an Image URL to go with every .json file , but I don’t think I can do that since there is no way for me to moderate that properly.

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            Sidenote:

            Been on a hiatus from the AI chat , but I’m thinking a similiar feature could be even more useful there.

            E.g Instead of inventing a scenario , or inventing a character to chat with , I pick a json file from a public directory with a scenario and/or character and load it into the AI chat generator

            Again; this would also be a good feature to use with an URL image.

            So you browse a gallery , click an image of “a frog on a beach” with lots of upvotes , and the .json file is loaded into the AI chat and you can have a conversation with “a frog on a beach”

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            Extra sidenote :

            A “global” image gallery could be pretty cool.

            So all perchance AI generators that upload to the folder “global” will all upload to to the same folder.

            And if you click the image you get a link to the generator it was uploaded from.

            Can be a cool discovery tool for users , and a way to encourage competition between generator creators.