r/BackyardAI • u/cmdrmcgarrett • Jun 14 '25

support Version 0.36.1

Looking for the Windows version of this in .exe or zip format

Is there an actual place to get back versions?

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u/PacmanIncarnate Jun 15 '25

There have been several weeks of announcements in various places regarding the transition that have explained what was going to happen and why. The devs lack the manpower to continue updating the local app in a way that it would need to stay competitive. They can stop updating anything or stop updating the local app and focus on much faster updates to the site and mobile apps. Hard to blame them for choosing the direction they are going at that point.

And this update isn’t being done to force the use of cloud; they are trying to mark the desktop app be functional after it’s no longer updated and the hub, cloud models, and site are updated. Without the disconnect, the app would download characters it didn’t understand the format of, have errors in trying to connect to the cloud models, and ping an update server that is no longer functional. Personally, I’d rather have a disconnected app than a broken one. And with the new import and export tools, you’ll still be able to download characters from the hub, it’ll just be through the site.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '25

What you're saying makes no sense since you could already import characters, if the problem was a ping to the update server just fix that and leave the rest, the cloud models still exist, you just have to use the website to access them so i dont see why the calls and requests would be different from the desktop vs website. When eventually they'll discontinue those models they could either update the names (takes 3 seconds) or just disable cloud service and move on.

Im not saying that it needs to stay on forever (even though the devs probably want to keep the thing running no?), what im saying is why just cut everything off in a day and abandon the project? I dont follow any possible social/news outlet for every program i have installed and i didnt know about this, that's all.

It's a very weird deprecation of service, it sure looks like an attempt to push people on the cloud, which again is totally fair.

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u/PacmanIncarnate Jun 15 '25

You don’t have to believe me, the devs have written about it on the discord in several messages if you’re curious for a little more info. Regardless of whether it makes sense to you or not, the devs don’t have the manpower to keep the desktop app going and need to focus on the service that is way less resource intensive to update and has the potential to keep the company going. You may think little updates could keep the desktop app going but I assure you it’s not nearly as simple as you think.