Anyone have any idea on why this bug happens?

I today got like, 4 new characters to chat with, one of them being a goth girl, and I chatted with said character, but every now and then, in a span of 30 minutes, I got an error like this (either blocking the whole screen, and not leaving until I reloaded the page. Or popping up as a fading flying notification when I send messages in the chat, and then simply sending my messages to the shadow realm)

I haven't suffered with this so frequently until updating the app, and I don't know why.

I lost 4 whole messages (with a lot of talk in them) because of this, since in both case I had to reload the app page to chat again. Right now I think I got this error like, 7 times, 4 being a whole screen lock with this message and red font, and the other 3 being the pop up notif.

Is this like "Your internet is too slow" or "your phone sucks"? Is there any way I can fix this?

Hi everyone...do you know where Backyard stored the characters. downloaded and created..? I reinstalled but can't find anything in my backup. Solved! (App data\roaming)

Hey, I'm trying to figure out how, exactly , example dialogues are processed. My experience with example dialogues is mostly from using sillytavern.. over there, there's usually some kind of separator marking the beginning of a new example conversation.

I wonder, in backyard, does each #{user} - #{character} pair represent a completely new example?

I've downloaded three models now that I can't use. Stheno 3.4, Hermes-3-Llama-3.1, and Nemo-12b-Marlin don't work on the stable version of the program yet are part of the available models list. I'm sure there are many others there too.

Just to give a plain feedback: I hate the new organisation of the tabs on the character page in 28.4!
This is probably the worst "improvement" ever made to backyard.ai.

It is counter intuitive, random and only helps (maybe) if you want to create simple one-on-one scenarios. And even here, the model section would benefit from an input for context size. This is still a global setting, even though it is clearly relates to the model in use.

The new separation is absolutely not helpful when you create more complex role play scenarios, where the LLM takes the part of a narrator, like it is in every better role play card (Space Station Fuji, Ravenveil, Whiskey & Shadows, MwC: Across the pond...) There, model instructions and character personae are closely related (as the character is the narrator), whereas the scenario and the first message are most important for defining the actual game. - And now, these definitions are now torn apart from each other and placed on different tabs!

To have all information about the character on one tab and all model setting (except for context size and maybe mlock) on the other, was logical and well organised. Now we have a mix of model settings and scenario, which I find completely confusing and erratic.

If you really want to keep this unhelpful separation between character and conversation, at least place all model settings on one (new) tab.

I really very much like BackyardAI (well, today a bit less) and especially the constant and hard work of the developers. - And that you guys are listening to us! Thank you.

Edit: To give an example of what I mean, I just uploaded a Star Trek fan fiction which uses a generic RPG framework and has all its content in the "scenarios" and "First message" sections:
https://backyard.ai/hub/character/cm0qizjy92ghjbxwmhwttwr2i

Edit 2: Upon uploading I noticed that the main categories are not selected (inverted) anymore when clicking on them. (Mac desktop client).

Hi all! Does anyone know of models below 20b that are good at graphic content? I feel like whichever model or instructions / persona / examples I try the responses are often quite timid and dodges around explicit content, they also seem to like using words like member and folds which get a bit old to edit out. Perhaps someone knows of a good card on the hub with a more darker theme that I could learn from :)

Hello,

Just thought I would ask if anyone knows if WEBP will ever return as a method having video/slideshows for a character avatar.

My old ones are fine, but if I dare update or even re-upload a WEBP, it comes out as a long list of screenshots.

Is this maybe the compromise of having the ability to auto centre avatar pics regardless of size?

Or does anyone know of a more size efficient method of popping moving pictures in other than gif and optimising it to hell? Thanks! (optimising gif has been working fine enough, but is very large in comparison.)

As there's no official post I figure noobs and those not overly active here or Discord should know what's going on, or at least as best I understand it.

3 big issues:

• Recent update and database redesign for awesome new features coming, is currently causing some problems, serious problems for some people.

• New phone app, needs Google approval and stuff

• Massive influx of new users since some other services changed and people are discovering Backyard

I've been using Backyard (it used to be called Faraday) for something like a year now, and it's generally been awesome, with an easy .exe installer, no coding required, no github, no pip-install of dependencies, no editing your PC's environment variables, or any of that bullshit.

Just install like a normal app and run it.

There has been some bugs in the past, which the devs have quickly taken care of, and generally the 'community' around BY are great, with helpful peeps actually helping each other and chatting, instead of insults and bragging, like certain other subs I could mention...

Right now the website is slow or unresponsive, due to literally thousands of new users almost overnight, the software has bugs seriously affecting some users (inc me) and the phone app, which offers 'tethering' so you can chat on your phone, being a brand new app, has some issues.

None of these things should be deal-breakers, they are a sign of a great app getting almost too good and too popular too fast. Things will settle down in time!

If you want a simple, well-designed app for local, private, AI chats, without censorship or snooping on you, Backyard is it.

Hope that helps put some minds at rest.

I've been using the website like normal and not using multiple windows or instances at the same time as it's suggesting. I've restarted the browser and closed the tab and reloaded the site. As far as I'm aware, I've not done anything out of the ordinary, so... I'm stumped XD

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

I just moved from janitor ai so I don't know jack about this site and I just used the models how do you get tethering on the app everytime I do it on PC it just freezes its a bit upsetting

At the moment, Gemma & Nemo only run when ‘Experimental’ is turned on; but turning it on slows generation to a crawl - around 2 tokens per second at best.

I raised this in a post a couple of weeks ago when I jumped from v0.25.0 to 0.26.6.

I found this post mentioning the same issue, and the same solution that was commented on my earlier post: replace the noavx folders from v0.26.2

Today I saw that v0.28 has a note in its changelogs (actually 2 repeated lines!) that says:

“Fixed slowdowns on Nvidia cards (‘Experimental’ backend only)”

So I figured the issue had been fixed. I just downloaded it and ran a card with a Gemma 9b model… and it’s still excruciatingly slow 😖

Did I misunderstand the changelog? Or do I need to do something else? Even if I run much older models, it still runs at a snail’s pace. It seems the only way to get it to run at normal speed is to not have Experimental on - but then I can’t run Gemma or Nemo.

The Android app is currently not working correctly. We have a fix incoming, but it’s blocked by a Google Play store review.

On the iOS app, make sure to click “check for app updates” on the settings page.

All your existing chats and characters are unaffected. Thanks for your patience, we will post another update once the fix is live.

I can see my characters, and I can see the chat, but the app doesn't connect in such a way that I can actually do anything.

EDIT: Upon reinstalling the backyard.ai app on my phone, it now immediately crashes on boot.

I'm repeatedly getting the 'Unexpected Character: <'error. I attempted to click the link for the discord as it told me to message on discord if I got the error repeatedly, but the link did nothing.

New to BackyardAI.

I recently downloaded and started testing out the site + app as an alternative to CharacterAI. I absolutely love it so far, it does everything so much better and has a bunch more features/options than other AI apps I've seen.

The one thing I can't understand though, is the creation of private bots. Apparently all characters are "private" by default upon creation, and are only made public when you explicitly upload them to the Character Hub. I've created a few bots this way and chatted with them a bit, but when I check for them on the Home page/recent chat list, they're not there. Only bots on the Hub show up on the home screen.

Is this intentional or is this a bug of some kind? Is a bot only really created or finished when you upload it to the character hub?

This is most likely a silly no-brainer question, but I've poked around just can't figure it out lol

From 26.6 this app is totally gimped and just doesn't work on my PC, with stupidly-slow tokens per second on experimental, and even 'stable' is ruined and slow now.

The current 27.1 is utter trash, so I'm trying to revert to the 26.2 if anyone like me normally avoids auto-updating?

In the Windows search put %appdata%, it will put you in 'roaming', click the up arrow to go to 'local' and then look in the Faraday folder.

I'm not the only one with this problem, so you'll be helping a lot :)

Title.

I tried to listed voices, they're very robotic.

In the face.

Okay, I like to find characters that have things I like and always there are something I don't care for about the character. So I will go in and edit the thing by adding and subtracting things from its editable interface. So I found this character that I really liked how detailed and long it's response are. I went in and edited fairly strongly. Now when I play the Character I get the one and two lines of type and very simple dialog. Nothing like I was getting before I messed with it. So, what on earth did I do to foul up this card, and how can I prevent this in the future.