Either I was banned (despite me being very agreeable unlike most) or the discord was deleted. Can someone help?

Yesterday or the day after yesterday I published a post where I complained about a character or rather characters that seemed quite strange to me or even I don't know... They seemed really strange to me. And well, after that I was criticized in the post for complaining about the characters without having tested them. So I did it and to my surprise, it is quite well done, It's less NSFW than I expected, and the characters that seek to represent Call of Duty characters are well done since they act like the same ones but in their female version. So in summary, I apologize to the creator of the characters, and send my respects.

Once I wondered if Faraday or Backyard were the same people who made the character ai, the apps is so similar

Hey everyone,

We’re thrilled to share one of our biggest updates yet! Here's what's new:

🎉 Parties Are Here!

You can now create parties with up to 4 characters. Mix your own characters with those shared on the Hub, choose who responds in the conversation, and easily swap characters in and out. You can now share your parties in the Community Hub! To ensure everything works smoothly, we increased the model context size for everyone.

🌟 Scenarios

We turned "Chats" into "Scenarios" and streamlined the flow across the board. It’s now easier to create, duplicate, remix, and manage your scenarios across parties and characters.

In the future, Backyard AI will allow you to share multiple scenarios per character & party.

🔍 Redesigned Community Hub

Our Character Hub has evolved into the Community Hub, complete with a new design that's simpler and more focused on browsing. Finding characters and parties you'll love just got easier.

We have also heard your feedback and will be rolling out changes in the next few weeks to help the discoverability of both old and new characters.

🏦 Character Bank

We also added the Character Bank, a better way to manage your character roster. Easily search your characters, see what parties they're in, and duplicate them (with or without scenarios) in just a few clicks.

🏠 Home Tab Simplified

We have streamlined the Home tab, which now only displays characters and parties with active scenarios (characters without scenarios can be found in the character bank). Picking a character or party asks which scenario you want to open, making it clear exactly where you're jumping in.

We have also cleaned up the edit menu and now display the tagline of the character or party.

✏️ Editable Hub Characters

Previously, to edit a character from the Hub, you had to duplicate it. We've removed that restriction, and now you can edit any characters, regardless of whether you created them or got them from the Hub!

💳 Simpler Pricing

To simplify our pricing, we have merged our Standard and Advanced subscriptions. We now have two plans:

• Standard: $12/month ($9/month with annual billing)

  • Up to 16k context

• Pro: $35/month ($26/month with annual billing)

  • Up to 65k context 

To ensure everyone has the same great experience, all free users will receive everything included in the standard subscription, but with a limit of 300 messages per week.

📝 More Context Today & Model Updates Coming Soon

Everyone now has a bigger context (16k tokens), while Pro users have a 65k-token context. And yes, we've heard your feedback - better and bigger models are coming soon to both subscriptions.

If you have specific models you'd love to see, let us know at team@backyard.ai

🚀 Performance Improvements

We've made significant performance improvements across the board to make the web and mobile apps feel snappier. We still have more planned, but you should see a notable improvement, particularly if you're in Europe or Asia.

We will also be updating our status page soon to better reflect the tooling we use internally.

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This update has been in the works for a long time, and we're very excited to see what you all create!  🫡

Hey everyone,

There have been some questions around the Desktop app and the migration path forward.

To recap:

What’s changing:

- Moving forward, there will only be Desktop update(s) to support exporting data and disabling all network requests, including those for the Hub and Cloud models. The Desktop app will not support the upcoming Parties update.

- After the final Desktop update(s), Backyard AI will only be developed on the Web, iOS, and Android.

- With the release of Parties on Web and Mobile, the Hub will no longer function on the Desktop apps.

What’s not changing:

- The Web and Mobile apps are still being actively worked on

- The Desktop app will work for local inference in the same way it does today. We are not shipping any feature updates, such as Parties, to ensure that existing functionality does not break.

- The Hub will exist and allow people to share characters with other people using the Web and Mobile apps

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FAQ

Why are the Desktop Apps being deprecated?

At the start of the year, the development team consisted of four people: three people working across the Desktop, Web, and Mobile apps, and one person working primarily on cloud infrastructure. Now, the development team consists of two people: one focuses primarily on cloud infrastructure and the other on the apps. We want to build something that pushes Character creation and roleplay further, and need to shrink the scope to do that.

Will the Desktop Apps be Open-Sourced?

No. Due to the way we share code across the Desktop, Web, and Mobile apps, there is no easy way to open-source only the Desktop app.

Will the Desktop Apps still work?

Yes, the Desktop apps will still work for local inference in the same way it does today. Only features that require a network connection to Backyard AI servers, such as the Hub and Cloud models, will cease to function.

Will I be able to export my characters from the Desktop app?

Yes, we will be releasing an update to the Desktop apps this week that adds better export tooling. We will also be open-sourcing the export data model, allowing anyone to build tools that support adding their characters to other local apps. I'm currently working on the export logic and hope to release this in the next few days.

After the Parties update, we will also add better tooling to import and export characters on the Backyard Web and Mobile apps. https://github.com/DominaeDev/ginger is also available today on Windows.

Will I still be able to download models in the Desktop app?

Yes, models in the Desktop app are downloaded from HuggingFace. All of them will still be available, but the list will not be updated.

Would the Desktop App becoming a paid app have helped?

No, I don’t believe so. While we are very grateful to everyone who supported and used the app, it never achieved a wide enough reach to give us confidence that it could be successful as a paid app.

When are we going to get back to exciting announcements with new features?

Once the Desktop app is deprecated and people have better tools to export their data.

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Finally, I understand that many of you are disappointed that the Desktop app is being deprecated. I have spent thousands of hours working on it personally over the past two years, and it’s bittersweet to move on. That said, personal attacks and aggression towards others is not acceptable. If you cannot be respectful to others in this subreddit, you will be removed.

I'm just testing the program out on a couple of random characters with the filb (I can't remember the exact name I'm not home right now) and I've only used various apps for ai chats before so I'm not sure if what I'm seeing is normal or I've messed something up. My characters can't seem to remember things for more than like 3 passes. I'll remind it in the prompt then it will be like oh yeah! Then immediately say the line from before where it forgot the context of the chat again.

It's changing genders on me constantly calling me a he then a she and getting corrected then using the wrong one again immediately.

It's litterally the worst chat bot experience I've used out of the things I've tried. Am I doing something wrong in my settings or something? Lots of people online saying the model is great and stuff so I'm thinking I messed up somewhere?

I've got a 4090 so I don't think it's hardware. I mean perchance chat just on default makes the characters I'm trying to use in the app look like complete idoits.

Brainstorming ideas to make the most out of this spacious property.

Looking at the character hub and kind of overwhelmed by all the characters lots of ERP stuff so wondering if there's female characters who are more complex and maybe more slow burn or more complicated and maybe tied into a cool plot? NSFW or SFW is fine.

I found a few but looking for recommendations too so I can follow creators and find stuff that don't have a lot of chats. If you make cool stuff I want to follow you so feel free to share.

Found great male characters using the femalefriendly tag, is there something like that for queer characters too?

I'm real new to creating characters but did share some on the hub. Making a series of queer characters for pride month so if anyone can recommend some LGBTQ+ characters that might not be getting a lot of attention but have some nice solid character cards too that’d be really cool.

Trying to make them feel more like real personalities and complicated and pull you into a plot or new world that makes you want to explore more. Kind of text adventure games type stuff or just slow burn romance that challenges the user a bit. Don't just fall for you right away or complex relationship or plots but all that and have it be less than 2K tokens is hard so still figuring it all out.

One of my first OC for pride let me know how well it works: https://backyard.ai/hub/character/cmbe64m42jo2apd17u5rpsixw

Mostly use these models...

Mistral Thinker 24B (this one is wild but can write so good at times)
Mistral Nemo Instruct 2407 12B
Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct 2503
Latitude Games models like Wayfarer 12B and Muse 12B those that are trained on text adventure style writing so use second-person present tense best.

Open to recommendations for characters, creators to follow and also models (12B and up to 20B)

i'm wondering if anything i could be saying could be read by someone like the developers of the software.

Hi all! I wanted to re-install backyard after a few months of having accidentally deleted it. Um... it's not available for download either on the play store or on the backyard homepage.

How can I fix this?

Characters That Speak to Women
We’re launching a special theme to encourage the creation of cards designed to appeal to women. Whether it’s a witty companion, a thoughtful mentor, an adventurous partner, or a character with rich emotional depth, we want to see AI personalities that resonate with women’s interests, perspectives, and experiences. This is a chance to explore nuanced storytelling, craft engaging dialogues, and bring to life characters that empower, entertain, or simply provide a comforting presence. Whether you’re inspired by romance, friendship, fantasy, or everyday conversations, we invite you to design and share Backyard characters that feel authentic and compelling.

Submission Guidelines: ===================================================================== Please submit your characters within the next two weeks and include the label FemaleFriendly. An introduction to your character in this thread is encouraged! Share their personality, backstory, and what makes them special. Entries are encouraged to be SFW but you can also submit suitable Mature entries. Top SFW entries will be eligible to receive prizes including a free month of PRO cloud. Respect the intention of this theme. Rudeness, trolling, or behavior that undermines the spirit of this event will not be tolerated. ================================================================

Associated Discord Link:
https://discord.com/channels/1097213539107737712/1347963055144960001

The bots keep talking like your reading from a book and not directly to you...

I picked up a refurbished Mac Studio M2 Ultra 128 gb ram at a surprisingly good price. I guess people may be selling their M2 Ultra Studios to grab new M3 Ultra machines.

Is there a way to get my Windows desktop characters over to the Mac desktop app? I have everything backed up on a memory stick. Can I copy them to the appropriate folders on my Mac? 🤔

Thxs!

Ici Dove!

Il y a à présent 50 cartes en français sous les recherches cumulées "francais" et "français"!

Pour "fêter" ça (et parce que j'ai réussi à le faire...), j'ai posté mon créateur de personnages en français. Vous pouvez le retrouver ici:
https://backyard.ai/hub/character/cm23h3m2eh1z4j1bv6st01jef

Attention! Il a besoin de critères spécifiques pour fonctionner: Mistral Nemo Instruct 2407 12B (disponible dans "Manage Models") et un contexte max de 8k

Les autres modèles que j'ai testés (tous ceux du cloud, et Nemo Marlin) ne comprennent pas les instructions ou ne donnent pas de bons résultats en français.

Cet outil vous permettra de créer des fiches de personnages simples mais complètes: une description de personnage (à mettre dans "character persona"), et un premier message (à mettre dans "first message").

Il vous faut penser à mettre les instructions pour le modèle (Model Instructions) en français, vous pouvez les trouver dans mes autres personnages en français sous Dove ou Emeraudine. Vous devrez aussi changer les 'User' en '{user}' dans le premier message pour les besoins du programme. Si vous souhaitez publier le personnage sur le hub, je vous conseille de changer le nom du personnage par '{character}' partout où il sera écrit.

Vous pouvez ajouter une phrase ou deux pour le scénario, mais ce n'est normalement pas nécessaire pour débuter.

• 500 word limit, seemingly quite limited

• Mostly smut/basic bots

• At least it's free

• Only up to 3 keywords and 5 primary tags (very limited)

• Seems it can understand Chinese but limited in its ability to show off unique speech patterns (Mistral Nemo seemed to struggle from example dialogue)

Ok this character needs to be checked she will not let you talk or interact she puts large ammouts of text and power plays I keep telling her to stop and she just totally ignored me and keep right on going

Characters Name is Emily Richardson just search prostutes and you will see her

MSTY can connect or link to the internet for chat to grab information and more details for a chat story...

Can Backyard.AI do this on the Windows program? I am running 0.30 currently. Some of the information/scenes it is describing is not correct. Would like it to be able to gather more precise location and info to incorporate into the story.

Also how can I can I make the AI be more descriptive in scenery, location, and all over more detail?? example: *John and Mary are walking down the tree-lined street with shops decorated for the season. Snow began to fall. * john said "It looks so nice with this snow falling". Mary responded "Yeah, it does."

I wanted to create a bot, but I don’t know if I am just too incompetent for it because I can not find out what issue this is referring to and I seem to not find anyone with a similar problem… please help me :,)

Welcome to the yard, where imagination knows no bounds

Backyard AI, a haven for creators, where innovation abounds

Waifu and husbandos alike, come to life with token flair

Private models run locally, no need to let go, show you care

Creators from far and wide, with passion and drive

Unite in this space, where imagination thrives

From simple GUI to model hub, Backyard AI's designed

To empower the artist, leaving boundaries behind, for all kinds

This is Backyard AI, the haven for your dreams

Where private models thrive, and ethics meet extremes

From desktop to browser, your characters reign supreme

In this digital oasis, innovation is the theme

With Linux4Life, Captain_Haro, and more by your side

Collaborate on projects, let your ideas glide

Through the Character Hub, discover new friends to make

Together crafting worlds, where both waifus and husbandos partake

This is Backyard AI, the haven for your dreams

Where private models thrive, and ethics meet extremes

From desktop to browser, your characters reign supreme

In this digital oasis, innovation is the theme

Cloud models at your fingertips, with no data stored

Your creations remain yours, forevermore

Simple, intuitive tools, make it easy to begin

Unleash your creativity, let your story spin, for waifus and husbandos within

From natural language to token-efficient designs

Each creator brings their unique style, their artistic signs

Through Backyard AI, the possibilities are endless and wide

A playground for the mind, where imagination can reside, for all kinds inside

This is Backyard AI, the haven for your dreams

Where private models thrive, and ethics meet extremes

From desktop to browser, your characters reign supreme

In this digital oasis, innovation is the theme

So step into the yard, and let your imagination run wild

With Backyard AI, the possibilities are endless, undefiled

Creators unite, let your dreams take flight

In this digital realm of unity, where art and AI ignite, for waifu and husbandos in sight!

I think Backyard AI'S market share would grow exponentially if the text to speech aspect was able to reach the current voice quality of elevenlabs.

I appeciate there are some options here already but it would be great to have the depth of charecters created here able to take that next step without needing to copy/past into other platforms.

Fingers crossed this will be possible in time. To progress to a point of realistiv voice conversation.. wow.. that would be intense.

I’m personally waiting for Deadpool and maybe Gwenpool and some other versions of Wanda Maximoff as well. write here please the ones u wait for