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word.center

10 points·kkamperschroer··9 comments

This was a project I made in a little over 4 hours, from idea to finished implementation, and finally purchasing the domain and setting up the hosting on S3 (since it's entirely static).

Completely pointless, but it was fun to make.

Good effort!

Seem to have lost a few minutes clicking generate..

What's the sad smiley I keep getting?

I guess sad smiley isn't very explanatory. It happens when there are either no consonants or no vowels selected. It's a dead simple algorithm that alternates between the two.

I should have it ensure at least one vowel or consonant is provided when clicking randomize, or give a popup.

Thanks for your feedback.

It often seems to put two vowels together, which works for "oo", but not reaylly for "yy" or "ii"

That's definitely unexpected. The only case I would expect is "yy" since 'y' is an option under both consonants and vowels.

I'll investigate. Thanks for pointing it out!

Could you enhance the character slider to allow a user specified "recipe"? Like a setting for the ratio of of vowels to consonants? That might reduce the occurance of 'yy' like results.

Pretty cool project - thanks for posting!

I certainly could. I'll add it to my backlog. Thanks for your feedback.

haha pretty cool

Thanks! I'm glad you like it. :)

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