Thank you for the reply. This definitely gives me some sort of direction to begin considerations in terms of what might be going on.
Regarding the second possibility (given the first doesn’t apply due to the ubiquity of it), I never post my images to the public gallery. I’ll acknowledge that I am prompting for explicit content based on erp between me and a couple other people. As such, I don’t make it public and am making it specifically to share with my roleplay partners. I’m unsure if there is still a way for the images to be seen by others for them to be downvoted (the gallery names are specific enough that I would find it exceedingly hard to believe anyone could just guess the names-- not without knowing the names of the rp characters involved lol).
As far as the third one is concerned, the content I prompt isn’t outside of the realms of what I do see in the public gallery. Heck, half the time, I use the prompt from a public image I like as my base to build from. Moreover, I have included elements that could be inappropriate in the negative prompt to try to ensure that it doesn’t appear-- because I don’t want that either lol. That said, I learned that the generator can sometimes confuse the negative prompt with the positive prompt(?) and have since stopped that practice for a while.
At this point, it’s less about the inability to save the images. I could just download them onto my hard drive. It’s more about the fact that the generator seems to learn what kind of images to generate for a given prompt based on the images I save and/or upvote. I don’t know if that is true, it’s more anecdotal observation. However, there have been strong signals to support this observation.
So, without the ability to save and/or upvote images, the generator will temporarily learn the aspects of images I’m trying to get only to then “forget” those signals after some time (usually within an hour). However, before the middle of August or so, I had a number of personal galleries with enough saved and personally upvoted images that a generator could be relied upon to consistently generate the type of image I was looking for.
It’s worth noting that old galleries have also been wiped clean or hidden. Many of which were filled prior to this event, so I’m not sure why previously held galleries would be wiped or hidden. And even when a gallery will temporarily accept saved images, it will wipe or hide them after a few weeks and no longer show anything.
Without the ability to send signals to the generator that it maintains, it makes using Perchance more trouble that it’s worth. However, I really like it in concept and, prior to Aug 8, had excellent results. And, I’m not complaining about the update. Not ideal, sure, but I am sympathetic to the devs, so don’t begrudge them. But it’s getting to a point where the time and effort to train the gen to create the images I’m trying to get it to (which, to be clear, while explicit, are not outside of the norm or involving anything particularly extreme or taboo) feels fruitless.
Regardless, I appreciate your response and any other observations or notes you may will be appreciated as well. Thank you
Okay, so changing the score doesn’t impact the retention of the images. And, the next day, the entire gallery disappeared. Also, if I hit refresh too many times, the gallery simply fades into the aether. I have also tried this with every browser configuration I can think of, and nothing has altered it. Likewise, admin mode showed no red boxes.