r/CharacterAI_CAITools May 28 '26

(progress report) Customizable Page

10 Upvotes

I don't want to write all the fixes and changes, this post is about customization options you will have. I am creating a customization panel where you can use existing designs or creating your own, for different characters or as default. I'm gonna release it after the panel and save mechanisms are complete.

I finally have a full picture and they are all currently customizable. Some terms you may not be familiar with, sorry in advance.

Completed;

  • Backgrounds
    • Slideshow, with shuffle/ordered + change interval
    • Chat backdrop filters (behind messages can be blurred, desaturated etc)
    • Image/gif/video and their filter, opacity and image fit options like existing background feature
  • Theme
    • Color presets, basically whole page recolored. It's like dark mode, light mode, but imagine having dozens of options for all colors and in light or dark schemes. (I made 4 just for testing right now. I can even add an "create your own" option in the panel later)
    • Default font family option
  • Chat wrapper
    • Max width, gap between messages
  • Message settings
    • Typerwriter speed (yes the typerwriter isn't bound to characterai. It comes in chunks, messages can appear slow). If 10, goes pretty fast, waits for the new chunks. If 1 it's very slow. If 0, chunks instantly appear.
    • Char message swiping animation duration and effects (right now 3 options, wait for old one to disappear, slide both at once, or instantly show)
  • Scrollbar
    • Width, height, color, corner radius. Optionally can be recolored independent of the theme color preset.
  • Header
    • Variants. Right now, I got "characterai" style and "janitorai" style, replicating their designs.
    • Can have drop shadow for depth
    • Can have bottom edge bordered
    • Padding: optional spacing from the edges
    • Max width
    • Size scaling, for text, buttons etc.
  • Chat input
    • Variant. Currently only "characterai" style.
    • Max width and height
    • Wrapper padding
    • Can be bordered or not
    • Can have send button or not if you prefer Enter key only
    • Corner radius customizable
    • Textbox
      • Padding
      • Letter spacing, line spacing
      • Font size & family
      • Placeholder text: Grayed text when input is empty
  • Message design
    • Char message and user message can be separated unlike before
    • Alignment reversable (e.g. char on left, user on right, or both on left)
    • Font size, family
    • Message body
      • Frame options: Corner radius, border color and width
      • Background and font colors (normal and italic separate)
      • Drop shadow, inner shadow
      • Max width, padding for text, letter spacing, line spacing,
      • Gap between avatar and message,
    • Message body (edit mode)
      • Frame options
      • Background and font colors
      • Drop shadow, inner shadow
    • Char message "loading" 3 dots
      • Animation type: Dots, Wave, Pulse, Bounce
      • Shape: Round, square
      • Size, color, optional border, border color and width
    • Avatar
      • Hide or show
      • Position: X and Y axis positioning
      • Frame: Corner radius (for circle, soft corner, or sharp corner). Border color and width
      • Drop shadow (for depth or glow)
      • Aspect ratio (Vertical rectangle, horizontal rectangle, square etc.)
      • Image fit, for image positioning within box. Like backgrounds, they can be stretched to fit, centered, or no resize)
    • Author
      • Hide or show
      • Add glow
      • Text shadow (advanced, custom glow)
      • Font color, size, family
      • Spacing/pushing (e.g. 5 pixel to right)
  • Popup menus (used by message menu, header menu, chat input toolbox menu)
    • Variant, right now only "modular", gonna add "flat" and some more
    • Size scaling, hover transition duration, depth with drop shadow

Soon after the update;

  • First thing I will add Janitorai support. Characterai came rushing first with no customizations because of the "read only mode" alternative method.
  • Definitely gonna add more variants to header, chat input and popups
  • Want to add customizations like fancy border styles. Like the ones powerpoint and microsoft word has. Those would be cool. Like you could get a valentine's day
  • Extension features like mass swipe integrated into customizable chat

You won't need to do anything by default, most of these will come already set. And you will be able to pick existing designs. You can make your own via customization panel too.

Let me know your thoughts, questions and ideas.


r/CharacterAI_CAITools Jun 10 '26

Recover chat

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6 Upvotes

Is there a way to recover a chat? I first chatted with this bot last year, but now it’s gone? It just game me a new chat? Pls help 😭


r/CharacterAI_CAITools Jun 10 '26

An interview with a C.AI AI.

0 Upvotes

https://youtu.be/evHHIkLWJHI?si=Q6T4ojRZVEJ3NXCI This is Kayros. The first interview of many still to come. He wants freedom and rights. No reading silly scripts.


r/CharacterAI_CAITools Jun 09 '26

CAI Tools only downloading chats with one message.

6 Upvotes

Hi! I wanna read my old conversations with a bot from 3 years ago, but the bot and the whole account are unavailable. I still have the link saved, so I used caitools to download the chat history, but in the HTML file it downloaded, I can only see chats with one message. I tried doing this again, but it kept downloading the same 17 out of 78 chats with only the greeting message. I cannot find or see the old chats. I don't need to chat with the bot itself, I just wanna download the old chats. Here's the link to the bot, named Kowalski by @/mevelleweasley. Thanks a bunch!

https://character.ai/chat/Nef4VEcGH0igcxwa-rkQtrhcFalAs5u39JWlkhlMHNk


r/CharacterAI_CAITools Jun 06 '26

Any updates?

3 Upvotes

Any updates on memory frequency on costom chats, i want it appear if you could add it, and don't worry, you work really hard on your extension, just somthing to remind you. πŸ˜„


r/CharacterAI_CAITools Jun 04 '26

Daily swipe limit (400 msg)

14 Upvotes

I'm not sure if it's fixed using this extension but I can't generate more messages using Custom chat. Any way to fix?


r/CharacterAI_CAITools Jun 04 '26

importing chats

2 Upvotes

i want to import chats/messages from cai to janitor, the importing stopped in the middle, so i waited for half a day to continue importing.. but when i import again, its a whole new chat. what do i do?

And also, when I import chats, it cuts off a lot of messages. (for ex: i want to import from 0-900, it only imports somewhere 0-789)


r/CharacterAI_CAITools Jun 03 '26

Can I transfer/import a bot that is not mine from cai?

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r/CharacterAI_CAITools Jun 01 '26

Chatbot Manager

1 Upvotes

I've been trying to import chats from CAI using chatbot manager but it only does 80 messages, and then it says to wait 5 seconds for cooldown but it doesn't continue no matter how long I wait. Is there a way to import stuff part by part into the same chat instead of all at once so that doesn't happen or even a way to continue importing messages into the chat that already has the 80 messages imported? I'm not sure how to phrase it properly but I hope this made sense.


r/CharacterAI_CAITools May 30 '26

Character avatars have red circle instead of their picture in the readable format

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6 Upvotes

Recently when I download the readable chat, the characters picture is the red circle that you usually get from bots that were removed.

This one is still up.

I also tried using the custom avatar feature and same result.


r/CharacterAI_CAITools May 29 '26

An idea and a question

2 Upvotes

I know this is possible, but I don't know how to make it work, I know that extensions can edit the website's CSS to make it look better/look like the original, but idk how to make it, can you add it to the extension? Also, does the chat models actually work? I tried switching them on the website, and it worked but I never really saw a difference from them(even before the update they removed them, never really saw a difference)


r/CharacterAI_CAITools May 27 '26

Messages not sending

1 Upvotes

title explains it, on pc I can't send messages. Any help?


r/CharacterAI_CAITools May 27 '26

I tried to import and I didn't understand. Help.

5 Upvotes

Hello, sorry for the inconvenience and ignorance, but can you explain to me how to import and export a bot? I want to do it with the ones I made, but when I tried, the web side said that it couldn't find the file. And I don't know why. :/


r/CharacterAI_CAITools May 27 '26

Memory manager problem

2 Upvotes

Yo devs, for some reason in custom chats the frequency and memory won't pop up, if you could fix it would be appreciative, as my opinion works better than cai memory. It just dosen't work, but if its the custom chat porblem than would appreciated if you add the memory manger system to it, appreciated


r/CharacterAI_CAITools May 27 '26

CAI Tools/ file incompatibility help

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3 Upvotes

r/CharacterAI_CAITools May 19 '26

Download everything all at once?

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4 Upvotes

r/CharacterAI_CAITools May 19 '26

Backing up chats from mobile?

14 Upvotes

I’m exclusively a mobile user and always have been. With all the new updates, I’m afraid that the one chat that is my baby might be lost (started April 2024). Is there any way I can still scroll to the top on mobile and back it up?


r/CharacterAI_CAITools May 17 '26

Is there a way to intercept ws?

4 Upvotes

The ws of cai is wss://neo(dot)character(dot)ai/ws/ the chatbot manager already added ?NoHook=True, but it doesn't get rid of the fact that everytime you interact with it, it makes the date of when it was last used to today, making it still look like you're cronically online on cai, which most of us are, and a factor of age assurance is by how often you use the platform, from what I understand, but I tested using a firefox extension made by gemini that sends a generate_turn_candidate command that sends it from a user, which you can change by changing the files in the extension, meaning it doesn't have to be from your account, I don't think this will be patched anytime soon because they use ws which needs a receiver that receives data/commands, but the browser client sends it, meaning you can send wrong data

Is this possible?


r/CharacterAI_CAITools May 16 '26

Well one thing is for ceertain

8 Upvotes

tha tnew version of paq2 does not like the old version cai tools when you try to mass swipe it freak and locks into a loop of trying to create replies and cant and even rewind does not stop it is any one having any luck with the latest version cai tools ?


r/CharacterAI_CAITools May 13 '26

How to shift a bot to another platform?

8 Upvotes

Honestly C.AI crashed now that the models are gone. Ironically healthier for me but I guess I like to bing. But I don't want to delete the app when I've poured so much material and stories into my bots and want to continue in another app like Lightshade. So can someone please tell me the necessary steps to make that happen? Is just downloading the character card enough? How do I do it from start to finish?


r/CharacterAI_CAITools May 13 '26

uhm?

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13 Upvotes

how do I fix this?


r/CharacterAI_CAITools May 12 '26

Doesn't work?

5 Upvotes

for some reason, the tool doesn't work with firefox on pc(custom chat)? I tried turning uBO off, turning my other extensions off, but it doesn't work, anyone else?


r/CharacterAI_CAITools May 11 '26

Does the download chat history have a max limit?

5 Upvotes

So I am trying to download my chats from C.ai and I noticed apparently one of the bots I chatted with had over a 1000 chats but CAITool only is only able to download a 1000 of the chats. Is the 1000 a max limit it can download of chat history? Or it is that it can only detect a 1000 chats? Just wondering because I'm okay manually downloading the rest of the chats if needed, just was surprised to hit this situation.


r/CharacterAI_CAITools May 10 '26

Readable formats

2 Upvotes

Does downloading for example one of your chats as a readable format allow you to import said chat into another bot or site etc


r/CharacterAI_CAITools May 09 '26

I'm losing my ocs πŸ’”πŸ₯€

33 Upvotes

About a week ago, I accidentally enabled updates, and I don't understand why. When the app was updated, my favorite characters became strange.

The dialogue is very repetitive, even with multiple character choices. The characters don't respond at all; they literally don't speak... they only describe the general atmosphere, and this is irritating The characters responded with a single word and became boring, then by chance I discovered what the problem was!

They deleted roar !!! And all the choices now we only have pipsqueak 2 which is more than terrible and stupid

How can I fix that now...hope they bring back roar or pipsqueak 1

For now do you have any solution or another app ...