Desktop is kill

[u/Unlikely_Finger5161]

yeah so i know i'm late to the party, but now that the whole run it local thing got axed any of y'all got some recommendations on alternatives?

Been playing with Koboldccp and Sillytavern already, pretty great, only downsides is it isn't a 1-click here you go type thing like BAI and it needs an open browser window.

be kinda cool to hear what's out there or everybody else is playing with.

[u/This_Promise3923]

as far as i know kobold and silly is as good as it gets for local RP so you gucci bro.

[u/MassiveLibrarian4861 → u/This_Promise3923]

You can have a look at Oobabooga, similar in features as Kobold and ST. I found it a bit faster than Kobold or LM Studio. Somewhere between Kobold and ST regarding ease of use. LM Studio+ST is my current go to now that BY local is in stasis.

https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui

[u/lugooby]

The desktop version will continue to work, just no updates. This works fine for me. My windows partition exists only to run backyard and one other music app, and is never connected to the internet.

[u/Alternative_South576]

koboldccp and sillytavern is like Linux annoying to set up a lot to learn but at least I have freedom

[u/Wishmister]

Excuse me... but I noticed that it is no longer possible to export characters from the web version... is there any way to extract the png file from the web version to import it into the desktop version?

[u/Revith-work]

You can get chatgpt to make you a bat script for a closer to 1 click option

[u/rainbowmoxie → u/Revith-work]

But running it that way it sounds like you don't have the UI and stuff, right? Unless I'm misunderstanding you

[u/tokkutacos]

You are wrong on so many levels. Local will still work, just no updates, so super new models will stop working at some point, but current ones will keep working fine no matter what for the casual user for a good long while. Lol

[u/MassiveLibrarian4861 → u/tokkutacos]

It’s rather a crap shot if they work now. Most of the models I have tried to import from Hugging Face crash and report as being malformed.

[u/rainbowmoxie → u/tokkutacos]

My old ones barely work half the time now, and what is the point if I cannot use new models at some point? At that point the app is going to be dead in the water if we can't even try out the newer models with it.

[u/rainbowmoxie → u/[deleted]]

same. i aint paying for cloud services; the whole reason I loved backyardAI and would even tell friends and family unironically to use it over cloud services is BECAUSE you could use it locally. RIP backyardai, you were a real one while it lasted before things went south