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.