O7 salute

I advise to make a pinned post about the Events and in Technical Perchance Forum . With a link to a post with an event that is in "Casual Perchance" forum

You should also check Reddit or Discord maybe Perchance

You are awesome Allo. Thank you for being good people. I’m honestly terrible at most of the things I do, but I’ve noticed on one of the AI chat sites I visit from time to time. There’s an event system that focuses mostly on seasonal flavors, major calendar holidays, and similar occasions. Because it’s an AI chat site, users often create characters that connect to the current theme in some way. It seems to be popular, which made me think: maybe a character-creation event could exist on a perpetual rotation. The goal would be to streamline things and keep it simple for whoever has to maintain or update it regularly. I’ve seen that you’re considering a character jam, and what I’m getting at is that this could function similarly. Most of the structure for the event's could be created in advance, making ongoing maintenance easier. This would provide users with a consistent, recurring event and, over time, something they come to expect. That familiarity and simplicity could help reach more people overall.

Some issues i think are hindering events:

1, I don’t see them advertised. (it may list the event when on the generators page but perhaps if the events become streamlined and are made to be a reoccurring aspect of the community they could be set to show at the top of the page like in the photo i have attached)

2, They’re hosted off-site. (i think this is a small thing, but for example with your image contest. i think if users didn't have to leave the site and go to lemmy that there would a larger group of participants.) 3, They’re beyond the scope of the average user. (By that last point, I mean most users primarily generate AI images or chats, so more complex generator-based events often fail to get attention.)

i wonder if there could be some fun way to get users into learning about perchance and all the things that can be done on it as i think a lot of the traffic is just people who ai image gen stuff, and miss the vast library of other amazing gens there are. im sorta rambling now so Anyway, thank you for all the work you do. I hope some of this is useful. If you ever need help and there’s something within my ability to contribute to, I’d be happy to try.

https://allotopia.org/PerchanceEvents

well at least thats way easier.

dont look at the rest of my site yet lol. enter dateFrom, dateTo, Topic, Preview image, and it gens the post, which can be touched to copy.

dont need login to make event so it can in theory be ported to a perchance page. tho all i made so far is ability to gen the img challenge, which i run anyway, so im fine with it being in my site framework since its part of what i do each month. will test tomorrow if the date created by the datetime js input is format vionet accepts. If so it should all work.

was also thinking while doing this "its hard using a system i didnt make" since im just guessing at options and requirements. maybe should ask @perchance@lemmy.world whether they find community events important, whether they should stay using lemmy, and general perspective on community events. on my site i will probably make the community events system myself and have them tied to my account system and not use something like lemmy.

and i code on phone so im sure it looks hideous on computer