I pray that this is only temporary, because for weeks now the image quality has been extremely poor, making the results unusable. Despite careful prompts and using the “Professional Photo” mode, human bodies are only rendered as 1950s pin-ups with uniform brown-beige plastic skin, and the faces all look the same, like sticker doll masks. Damn, it used to be so good and it was so interesting to create individual, distinctive human characters! I really hope that at least the previous quality will be restored! Thank you for your work!

Thanks for the update and for your work, Dev! Also, can you enlighten us about the context text window? Should we expect any developments, or is it a long shot?

Hello, with all due respect, AI Story Generator is totally terrible right now.

Right now the model is straight up nonsense, ingoring the whole plotline, outputting texts that has just no correlation to the previous ones, jumping scenes without being told to, or refusing to change a scene and follow the new one, etc. It ignores already existing context and details, also makes characters know things they very clearly should not. A few months ago it worked relatively fine, even with the new AI being sometwhat bad at storytelling, now it's plainly dumb, ignoring the user, and even totally senseless.

Perchance images now look very different and low brightness. Why is Perchance update quality always in negative ??

Thanks dev! There are actually two questions many of us have,

1. The already mentioned context window (this was the one thing we hoped most for) and
2. Which model did you choose (so we can look for workarounds easier)?

Thanks for all your hard work! I really noticed the text gen getting better little by little. Besides the hyperfixations and repetitions you mentioned there is also the on-off problem of following the prompt and writing instructions, other than this I've noticed only minor quirks (ignorable for me as the other problems are more important).

Thanks for making a wonderful facility for us. FYI, T2I is really awesome on Perchance. Keep up the great work!

So much 'technical difficulties' for a week now. Everything is so slow now. Please fix!

Hi Dev!! Personally I think the new text model is a HUGE improvement over the old one. The story maker has gotten worlds better! If you think it can be improved that's AWESOME! I look forward to that. Don't beat yourself up or take anyone's negativity too seriously, you're making a really cool resource for free and that's really cool.

What is multiplayer plugin and database plugin actually?

Why perchance developer is lying?? Fine detail and overall image quality didn't improve but it only became worse. And it's clearly not 2x faster only slightly faster. Text rendering may be better that is all. So now ai chat is very broken and ai image is very worse. Perchance's update quality is in negative. 👎

Thank you so much for the update and for all your hard work! I'm grateful to know that you are reading user feedback.

By and large, I've been really happy with the new text gen. When it works well, it works really, really well. There have been a few times that it was working amazingly and I was really impressed by the quality -- times where it took a really complex scenario and performed beautifully, picked up on foreshadowing, did a great job at portraying nuanced characters and writing realistic in-character dialogue, etc. with minimal corrections needed.

I also already find it a huge improvement from the old model in almost every single way, outside of times the model starts severely and repeatedly hallucinating. More than anything else, I'm so, so glad that it isn't afraid of dark themes like the old model was. I love that if I give a character a dark backstory, it will sometimes add to and embellish it, and will also bring those details up when relevant of its own accord (without me having to repeatedly instruct and nag it to do so). So I've been really happy with the update!

Lo, the Savior hath spoken... Thank you savior. Can't for the improved text to image gen.

Do take your time with it, but i personally preferred the old ai somehow..? It just seemed..much better at following instructions fully without trying to hallucinate things? But the more intelligent part is definitely better, still would've been cool if there was an option to use the old ai (⁠〒⁠﹏⁠〒⁠)

Can we get an option to switch between the new and the old model?

It's like at 11:30AM, someone just flipped a switch... deny all other users. Was working fine, then BAM, "anti-bot blah blah blah" and nothing loads. Is it unregulated testing being done in the live environment, or is it intentional ?!?

Good good.

That's fantastic news. There's moments perch really shines and you can see some fantastic quality and to have that all the time would be heaven.

glad to know! need more Dev posts been a while

Perchance is so cool, thank you for your work

still waiting on the text gens to finish syncing up of my old stories and the rpgs. image mdels are a little out of sync and try to MERGE characters with background, I prompted that NOT to happen but it did anyways and the video...are they still on the back burner?

Lately yhe images generated are very poor . All my seed are not able to keep the same face or scenario

Take your time. As an old FORTRAN coder, I know too well the headaches. You'll get it right. Only gripe I have is that sometimes it bogs down to nothing. Like yesterday, it was doing fine, but today, I think it's protesting the cold, because it takes almost three minutes to generate one paragraph. You got this.

The model has been performing really poorly for the past month and a half.

Dear Dev, if you are reading this, I cannot continue my stories until I see a major improvement on the text model that happend to me and majority of us users back in September of last year, I have been using Perchance for nearly two years now, I am not being mean, I am just trying to be nice, I cannot stand the aggressiveness of the characters. Thank you.

No problem, wait as long as necessary. I've been with Perchance for a while now and I won't leave it in difficulties. Keep calm.

Oh, hello, dear dev. I did also dunk on this new text model - and I'm still behind my words. Today it completely crashed the story I was so invested in. Again. It just kept escalating and escalating, editing my replies, editing AI's didn't help. I still use the image generator here, it's very good, not gonna lie! But the AI chat? Um, sorry, I migrated over to Silly Tavern some time ago, so I'll enjoy that instead. I hope that the AI text model is beneficial to some, but just not for me. And I won't pressure anyone to make any tweaks in this model, since this is free and I migrated elsewhere anyway. Just wanna wish you all the best for the new year and thank you for that half a year I used this AI chat.

Thank you ive hope AI chat bots become normal because current chat bot are...werid. Speaking of image gen, can you improve list of charachters can be generated? Like Alex, Clover and Sam from Totally Spies, or Will, Irma, Taranee, Cornelia and Hay Lin from W.I.T.C.H? Because auto random prompt aware of these charachters but cannot generate thier basic likeness like Lola Bunny or Ariel from Little Mermaid. Im suprised in old models gen it possile to generate basic likeness of Sophitia from Soulcalibur games, but on new model gen it require write better prompt.

So anyway good luck,

I'm just happy to hear you're still working on it and giving it attention. What is new with the text gen exactly? I have yet to notice any difference, but maybe I'm not looking in the right places...

rpg text is lagging and looping on more adult interactives and dodging blatant gory material like Fallout bloody mess art. did all the servers got another delayed transfer???

In recent days text generators do not work properly, even in idea generate section, It takes hours and finally produces nothing. Please inspect it. Thanks.

Are you keeping the previous model as well.

As per my post, https://lemmy.world/post/42586080 The image generator was changed around early 2025 without a reason why. Did you get spooked about what people are generating?

Why not keep the old image generator along with the new one. If people like one more over the other, then the other one won't get as much traffic and so keeping both doesn't necessarily mean double the load.

I have been grateful for this free service. But providing a free service is not sacred. People should be able to give feedback on changes.

After the recent update, I’ve been trying to understand what changed.

body: 
  uniform jet-black coloration across entire body
  build: androgynous slender body
  fur: black fur
  fur texture: sweaty
  skin: black skin beneath fur, barely visible

I carefully built them with detailed layers like this.

However, after the recent update, even prompts under 300 tokens are no longer being processed at all. All of the seed values and prompts I had saved in the past have completely stopped functioning as expected.

Is this because something was temporarily changed due to the recent DDoS attack? Or was there a specification change introduced by an update?

As a precaution, when I use a very simple, flat prompt without hierarchical structure, I can still get some kind of result. However, the illustration style appears to have changed significantly.

Any clarification would be appreciated.

Img Gen is down again.... looks like someone is using the production environment as their own personal sandbox again...

Did you also change the model? I asked the AI ​​which model it was, and it said Claude 3, yesterday DeepSeek-R1, sometimes GPT-4. I'm kinda confused. Anyway, thanks for the hard work!

Sorry to hear it works badly for others. I just used the ai-story-generator and had the best performance I have ever gotten! By a mile! I would like to know what LLM it is so I can find it and download it for my own use. Given the comments here about the model identifying itself differently, I'm not sure what to believe!

Thanks for all the hard work!

Thanks! Hanging in there still using it daily and I have found quite a few workarounds and instructions that seem to work or correct though the engine is VERY stubborn sometimes. Somtime I just change my story as I go to just handle situations. Keep up the good work.

i like it ignoring it's schizo

I am trying to use Ai-chat but it's not responding. The verification thing loads on top top right and goes away and even then there are no responses and when I checked console it's showing error 422 and 424 and some cloudflare errors and I allowed cookies and refreshed the page still same it's not giving us response

I thank.you for letting us know on the progress we love you ;3

Also by Image quality is it like Resolution wise? And possibly a suggestion here but I understand if it's not doable Will we someday get an upgrade to our Text to Image Resolution with added 768x1024 Resolutions someday?

We love you pookie bear. Dont listen to the loud minority who insult you and want the old model. Good things come with patience.

seems to be finnaly getting better nice work GG.

We perchance users are actually too much grateful to you. at first lot of thanks. But still I have 2 questions to ask you man.

1. why you are not in reddit
2. why are not you talking about context window of the text plug in. seems like even after the update still its 6k.

Thanks for your hard work bro