I’m gutted at what’s happened to this site…for me it was arguably the best website i’ve ever used in 25+ years of using the internet…such a shame…I really hope that just for once somebody listens to the complaints & puts things back as they were,otherwise it’s useless to me.

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    I’m starting to give up on using this site now - used to create loads of “celeb” images,have just for example typed in “stephanie beacham” using “no style” and after waiting an eternity i’m given 4 images of random women standing on a beach - tried “black pontiac transam” last night & got a random car - what is the point in making the site worse??..it was so simple to use & now seems that you need a degree in english lit to get anything nowhere near resembling what you want. #baffling

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      I got a degree in English, and my prompt paragraphs, which I wrote, scrapped, rewrote and fine tuned for hours a day which led to months of brain drain to get somewhere stable with satisfactory results, is now all undone, ruined and tarnished. Either the new model itself is illiterate or we now have to resort to biblical text format(s).

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    It’s currently broken, too. Just keeps going round and round in loops without actually generating anything

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        The site? Image gen is just a plugin on the site. It’s a site for creating generators, which are small programs and pages for creating various randomized content. Image gen is a plugin that can be imported into a generator.

        I don’t understand how changing one plugin has ruined the whole site.

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    This was my refuge for guilty/carnal pleasures. As someone who personally prefers the imaginary over the real thing, I kind of feel disabled/handicapped. The new model is overtly realistic with hideous mutated output, while the old one maintained a fine tuned balance between realistic and imaginary.

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      Same here,used to spend far too much time on here tbh,literally “simply” creating 1000s of images of what I wanted (in seconds) - now that’s all gone…it’s become slow & overcomplicated…it’s not worth the effort anymore…why not give users both options?

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        10 hours ago

        Because hosting an AI model is not free. To host both models at the same time would likely require additional cost.

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          Buying servers and bandwidth for long term will literally cost anyone worth of 2 mortgages in city centers, hardware costs are borderline ridiculous these days, let alone maintaining them for 24/7 in a air conditioned room. Those who provide the hosting services are robber barons - they weigh your needs and play the good buddy; and when you are completely reliant on them, then suddenly one day, the price hikes without a proper explanation, because shifting to another provider would cost downtime and extra $$ for file and model transfers.

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    I’m successfully resisting posting this image I just generated here so as to not fan the flames of conflict.

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    I don’t see the problem its more accurate now less likely to mess up the only downside is the slowness

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      there are many, maaaany downsides, but its pointless to discuss that, people refuse to see the galery with 500 different hair colors but same identical faces, this new model may work fine for scenarios or anime, but every other thing… its a huge nope

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    What’s wrong? Did something with generator creation break? I’ll admit, I haven’t been here very long, but it all seems pretty cool to me.

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      They replaced a well trained and resourceful Stable Diffusion 1.5 model with an untrained and more expensive FLUX-1.Schnell model…

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      The new engine creates some twisted mutants. The old one sometimes had problems with the fingers of the hands, but now everything is disgustingly disproportionate and twisted 🤢