It’s definitely possible, since all the code for generators on Perchance is openly available and downloadable, but currently there’s unfortunately no “one-click” way to do this right now - and it still would require a bit of coding knowledge at this point.

I think I wrote a comment related to this a few months back - basically you’d need to use something like ollama or llama.cpp or tabbyAPI or Aphrodite or vLLM or TGI (…etc) to run the AI text gen model (and for image gen, ComfyUI or Forge WebUI). Unfortunately even a top-of-the-line gaming GPU like a 4090 is not enough to run 70B text gen models fully in VRAM, so it may be slow. And then you’d need swap out some code in perchance.org/ai-text-plugin and perchance.org/text-to-image-plugin so that it references your localhost API instead of Perchance’s server. You’d just fork the plugins, make the changes, then swap out the imports of the ai plugin for your new copies in the gens you want to self-host.

Someone in the community with some coding experience could do the work to make this easier for non-coders, and hopefully they share it in this forum if they do. I’ll likely get around to implementing something eventually, but probably won’t have time in the near future.

I’ve just updated the dynamic import plugin so it’s a bit more helpful with the error message. Looks like you’re passing undefined to dynamicImport.

The error messages in Perchance are, in general, atrociously unhelpful. I really need to overhaul it so bugs like this are easier for you to find. From some fiddling with Chrome DevTools, it looks like the first instance of this type of error is occurring on this line:

dynamicImport(document.i, 'preload');

i.e. document.i is undefined when that runs.

@VioneT@lemmy.world You also mentioned people asking for resources button on Discord. What are the most common reasons people used the resource button? E.g. upload, plugins, templates, …? And is it frequency-of-access that makes the current situation annoying, or is it that newbies aren’t able to find plugins/templates/etc. in the first place?

Thanks! I’ve adjusted the wording here - let me know if you have better wording ideas or any other feedback. Also, if you find extreme differences with the same seed (like, entirely different image composition/structure), I’d love to see examples of that, since there might be ways to reduce it.

I just tested and it seems to be working for me. Could you DM me a link to a character that has this issue? You can remove all irrelevant details, of course - e.g. description, image, etc. - just make sure to test that it’s still not working once you’ve trimmed out all those details. Note that the “character share link” feature doesn’t share any chats - only the character itself.

Hi, assuming you’re talking about an image generator, please DM me the generator URL and/or the words/patterns they’re using to get around the blocks that are in place for this. I’ll adjust the regex replacements for the text to image plugin based on that

Thank you for reporting! Sorry about that - it’s fixed now.

Thank you 🫡 I will eventually get around to all your great suggestions (and the feedback from other users here) once I’ve got a handle on this issue and a few other important things. As always, feel free to re-ping me in comments and/or repost your most important feature requests and bug reports (once every couple of weeks or so) so I can bump them up the priority list.

Yes, sorry about this. This is priority number 1 for me right now - I’ve been working for the last few days on fixing this. It has turned out to be harder to fix than I anticipated. Some sort of GPU memory error due to particular driver versions or something. That said, I should be able to fix it within the next day and a half (~36 hours from the time of this comment) unless something goes terribly wrong. I’m going to upgrade the whole stack, which should fix this issue, and also give a bit of a performance boost (slightly faster text generation) as a bonus.

i have been informed that malware can be embedded within favicons

You have unfortunately been misinformed on this matter. From the perspective of web browsers, favicons are just images, and will never be executed as code. You might be thinking of web-application-specific exploits - e.g. related to vulnerable WordPress favicon plugins or something. This is not at all relevant to Perchance. Using this plugin is completely safe.

That said, I appreciate the concern!

Hmm I can’t replicate this, but I did just try a quick adjustment based on a hunch, which might fix it. Can you check? If it doesn’t work, can you let me know which browser + device you’re using?

Thanks for reporting this! A couple of the GPUs in the text generation cluster were fried. Normally they’d throw an error and I’d detect it and remove them, but with this particular error they just output gibberish without any explicit error. I’ve added code to detect this now, so the issue should be resolved. Please let me know if it occurs for you again.

Edit: Hmm. Still getting reports of this in the feedback. If anyone can provide example outputs of the gibberish that you’re seeing, that would be great.

I’ve solved the original issue already, but it sounds like you’ve found another (related) issue. If you answer each of these questions, I will hopefully be able to solve it:

1. Can you please share a screenshot of the error?
2. Which OS version and Safari version are you using?
3. Does the import fail if you use incognito/private browsing mode?
4. Does the import fail for newly created export files (e.g. open incognito, create a chat, export it, and then try to re-import it), or do you only get the error for old export files (e.g. ones you created a week ago or more, roughly)

Sorry about that. The original reported issue is fixed, but it sounds like there’s another related issue. If you can give me more details, I might be able to fix it. E.g. screenshot of error message, details of browser version and device OS, whether it’s a recent export file, or one from more than a week ago, etc.

If someone is able to DM me a link to an exported data file (whole export or thread/chat export) that is giving the error, then I’ll be able to fix the problem almost immediately.

All fixed now, thanks to a DM from @Sk1ll_Issue@feddit.nl

Thanks for your report/corroboration on this! Let me know if you are still experiencing any issues.

Sorry about this. I’m not currently able to reproduce this problem. Is it occurring with recently exported files, or is it old (pre-mem-update) export files that aren’t able to be imported?

Also, if you’re able to give steps to reproduce the issue (e.g. open firefox, create character, send message, export thread, try to import thread), or if you’ve got an unimportable thread/file that you’re able to share, that would be very helpful.

@VioneT@lemmy.world @wthit56@lemmy.world Heads up that I just got a support message from the email provider I use saying that it has been suspended for suspected spamming.

This happened several months ago, and I added stronger IP-based rate limits which apparently fixed it. Probably spammers or people doing a DDoS-type attack (spamming signup requests for emails in big public email lists) for whatever reason. I’ve added more guards, which will hopefully fix it, but it may be a few days before they allow sending signup emails again 🫠 So we may get a bunch of posts on Reddit and Lemmy about not being able to sign up - just letting y’all know

@Sk1ll_Issue@feddit.nl Okay, it’s live on perchance.org/ai-character-chat - sorry for the huge delay! And thanks again for pestering me about this

Done, thanks!

Thanks! IIRC this was a backwards-compat thing for the #output-container div removal, but I’ve just tested removing body { height:100% } on quite a few gens/templates and I can’t see any breakage, so I think it’s fine. If there are issues, hopefully someone posts here about it at some point and I can devise a patch to fix it.