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This community is mainly for discussions between those who are building generators. For discussions about using generators, especially the popular AI ones, the community-led Casual Perchance forum is likely a more appropriate venue.
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I am yes, and no, I have ad blocker off for perchance. I do, I haven't logged in in a while, do you think that would help? As for browser extensions, those are turned off for perchance too.
Can you explain the error that you were having, how it originated, and how to reproduce it? Additionally, what browser are you using? Have you recently cleared your browser cache/data?
It looks like a combination of me and the server, but I'm not sure?
I'm using Brave, but I'm unsure how to reproduce the issue, as it was intermittent until I finally looked into it once it became unusable. It's been going on for almost a month, knowingly, I'm not sure when it really started because I've kind of had off-and-on issues with perchance that were server-side and were fixed but hardly checked this forum to see what it was. But now, I'm starting to wonder if it's client-side. I use Comcast, keep NordVPN off as well as it's adblocker when I use it, and I've turned off all Brave browser extensions involving ad blocker. The last part helped before it just started giving me all these errors, then it just got stuck in this odd loop. The last three errors, especially the "Untrusted Origin" one in yellow, just spams errors when I try to run the generations. It only spams that error when I generate. Other than that, all the other errors pop up as soon as I run the site.
What exactly are the errors? does the content just deletes itself, does the generation stop midway, or other errors? Please also try to open the console before any generations since it might log the errors on the console and if the error popups, you can immediately see what is logged.
It just refuses to generate anything. As soon as I open it, all those logs in the console start to populate before I even do anything.
Have you tried using other browsers or using other devices?
By refusing to generate anything, clicking the 'Generate' button doesn't generate text on the output area after a while?
Does it only say 'Loading' upon clicking and nothing happens?
Does it say 'Verifying' on the top right of page upon clicking 'Generate'?
Have you tried exporting the data, then clearing the data, and importing the exported data? Tried using the page with Brave on my end and I don't see any of those untrusted origin warnings. Also try changing the DNS setting into Cloudflare or GoogleDNS.
It works on my phone, but no other browser on my PC. It just gets stuck on loading. I've tried clearing the cache, saving, deleting, then loading again, but I keep getting these weird errors.
Do you have the same network on your phone and PC? Have you tried the change DNS? Can you also try this https://one.one.one.one/ ?
Yes, it even works with my VPN when I have it on my phone. What is that link you sent me???
Cloudflare's free vpn
Are there any other options you possibly have? Sorry, I don't feel comfortable clicking on random links. ๐ I know you're just trying to help, I'm just too new to a lot of this stuff, so I just want to be careful.
Do you think it could just be my PC? Since it doesn't seem to be affecting anything else?
It might be your network, but not sure, which is why I was suggesting try the Cloudflare VPN. Have you tried turning on any VPN when generating?
Have you also tried changing your browser's DNS service? DNS is like the phonebook of your browser; it translates the URL to the correct IPs. By default, it would be using your IP's DNS, but you can change it to Google's or Cloudflare's DNS service in the browser settings. Maybe your IP service is flagging the Perchance domain as untrusted, which is why it is throwing those warnings.
It can also be in your PC, do you have any antivirus/web protection software installed and running? On my end, windows defender doesn't seem to flag it. Are you also maybe on a private network (i.e. work network/school network)?
I'll ping the Dev in case @perchance.
Can you also try navigating to the Network tab on the Developer Tools? Then try to click generate and see the request to the Perchance server. The name of the request should be
generate?userKey=...and please tell if there are any errors there.How many comments CAN YOU NEST???
ALL OF THEM! XD
more not spamming, just this one.
Soooo many things popped up but that was not one of them. It also seems Perchance does not like NordVPN or the other way around. Three errors popped up after hitting generate.
The
fastlane,cookie, andsyncseems to be for the advertisements that were added below the page, and on my end those requests were not throwing errors, and the number of requests happens to be fallbacks if one request didn't complete, they also request in an interval so it would pile up if the network logging is still open. One possibility is that since the ads cannot be added (due to the errors), then the AI cannot be used, since the AI is sustained by the advertisements.Are you able to DM me the console logs? On the console tab, you can right click and 'save as' and it would give a
.logfile. On the Network tab, you can also download the logs by clicking the download icon on the top, and it would be a.harfile. It would be good if you have the DevTools open, then click the 'generate' or use the AI of the page, then copy/save the logs.Have you also tried logging into your account in Perchance, this makes it so that Ads wouldn't be shown and would significantly remove all those ad requests.
Also this popped up in the console, it's different from the other errors I noticed.
Not even doing anything and I have over 500 requests in the network tab and it keeps going. Not used to coding, is that normal?
I would recommend seeing what the link is, but WARNING: Use Private Browsing/Incognito/Whatever the private thing is, so it would be less likely for you to be hacked.