I googled this before I came here to ask, and I know that setInterval exists and that it's what I need to use, I just don't know how to make it update from my Perchance list. I also don't think stack overflow is the best place to ask a question about Perchance. I read pretty much all somewhat related questions and answers there before I came here to ask. Maybe I should've mentioned that in my OP.

Thank you so much!!!!!

Edit to add: The Dynamic Odds version did not work, but it's like 3am for me and that could very well be the reason. I'll look into it again later because it could still be useful to figure out. :D The key-value version works like a charm! That was exactly what I was going for but didn't know how to translate to code, thank you so much for your help!

Thank you so much, you're the true MVP here!

So, if I wanted to use the results for a list that is not the outcome, could I do it like this?

Let's say I want to create sentences like "the mouse is in the barn" or "the cat is in the fridge" or something (not the actual sentence lol), would this be the right approach? Just making sure I understand what I'm doing.

Sorry if this is very obvious, I hadn't expected my generator to become this complex when I started two years ago and I'm still learning as I go...

output
  sentenceList

sentenceList
  [consumable = randomList.consumableList, ''] The [item] is in the [item].

item
  [selected = consumable.selectOne.getName] [list[selected]]

randomList
  A
  B

specificList
  X^[selected == 'A']
  Y^[selected == 'B']

It's a bit different now than it was before, I made a new screen recording so you can watch it all unfold.

Adding the qualifier didn't change anything, same result as in the screen recording.

I made another screen recording of the disabling cache and refreshing procedure.

Hope this helps a bit at least? Happy to try out more things, just let me know what you need me to do.

I did create a new user profile on Chrome, and that one loads the generator without any issues, just as with the guest profile, so that was kind of what I expected to happen. Just wanted to mention that in case it does make a difference.

Thank you! :D

HOW did I miss the example generator?? I'm so sorry! I looked through the advanced tutorials and examples, but must've tunnel-vision'd away from the solution.

Thank you so much for the explanation, that's just perfect!

Of course!

Here's a Google Drive folder with four screen recordings (the videos are named after the browser and the browser version). I also wanted to throw a recording of TOR in just for shits and giggles, and that's when I found out that the generators actually do load in TOR. They don't when I just use a VPN (no matter which country) on my other browsers. The recordings are all without VPN, but the outcome is exactly the same.

I am only logged into my Perchance account in Opera, all other browsers were trying to access the generator when logged out.

No error messages, just the loading animation that never stops even if I let it sit for half an hour. (Edit: Forgot to add, refreshing the page does absolutely nothing. It just ends up with the same screen, no error message like the Redditor described)

My machine is a PC running Win 11 Home, version 10.0.22621

It does load on my phone (iOS 16.6.1, using Opera), on the same Wi-Fi as my PC.

I honestly just noticed it today after seeing the post in the old community. (:

Sorry if this is not helpful at all.

Yes, it's giving that error code 2 message in Chrome, Firefox, and Edge (which I now also tried). When I click on OK, the perpetual spinner returns in all three browsers. Mashing refresh in Chrome didn't change anything.

I did have error messages there, but I took both screenshots and put them in the same Google Drive Folder. Sorry for not giving them useful file names, but I think they should be self-explanatory.

Where am I supposed to paste this? Just in the console tab? (I tried that and got a syntax error back, so I suppose that was not the right place for it)

Shit, sorry, I completely forgot about the curly quotes when pasting issue! Doing it correctly now only gave me two single quotes as a result.

The test generator does work...

I don't have one shared extension or user script across all four browsers. Edge is completely vanilla without anything, not even an ad blocker. I only use it when I need to test things in a different browser. (:

Chrome in guest mode lets me load my own generators. The only extensions I have in Chrome are

• Ghostery
• Google Docs Offline
• IDM Integration Module
• Tampermonkey (but I have only one user script installed in Chrome and it's only active on Dreamwidth)
• uBlock Origin

I would now suspect Ghostery to be the issue, because it wouldn't be the first time it caused a site not to load or not to load completely, but I don't have Ghostery installed in Edge.

Gonna deactivate my extensions one by one to find the culprit. If it actually is Ghostery, I apologise for wasting your time with this. D:

Edit: I'm genuinely relieved to see that deactivating my extensions didn't fix the problem. xD

I tried again now and got this dialogue:

There was some sort of bug parsing the imports of this generator. Please report this at https://lemmy.world/c/perchance and mention this error code: 2

Will clear the cache now and try again. :D

Edit: Clearing the cache did fix the problem in Opera, but not in Chrome or Firefox. Haven't tried Edge yet because I'm honestly happy with it working in my main browser (but I'm aware that it's not ideal lol).

No need to apologise, thank you for dedicating your time to this! I'll point the user who posted about this on Reddit to this thread here to see if it's working for them now. :)

Thank you so much! I'll keep an eye on it! :D