We skipped last week’s update while the team was dealing with the extended service outage, so this week we have a few things to catch up on.

Outage Compensation

During the recent extended downtime, we wanted to thank everyone for their patience and support while services were being restored.

As compensation, additional Energy was provided to affected users, and subscribers also received Crystals.

Thank you again to everyone who stuck with us while the team worked through the outage and brought everything back online.

Help Improve Our Models

Some users are also beginning to see an optional Improve Content feature in the app.

If selected for the test, you can choose whether you would like to participate. Participants will be shown two possible replies and can select the one they prefer, helping us evaluate and improve our language models.

Conversations you label through this feature may be used for analysis and model training. Please remember not to include personal or private information when participating.

Participation is completely optional, and you can opt out through Settings at any time. Users who participate will also receive additional Energy.

What Bot-Building Guides Do You Want Next?

We also want your input on future bot-building resources.

A new poll is available in the Discord Announcements channel where you can vote on the types of bot-building topics you would like us to cover next.

Your votes will help us decide what additional guides and materials to work on for the community.

>Update:
We experienced a widespread service outage yesterday caused by a combination of increased bandwidth usage following the launch of the new video feature and a backend issue.

>After several hours of monitoring and work on the affected systems, services have now been fully restored.

>As compensation for the disruption, affected users will receive energy compensation tomorrow.

>We have also upgraded our bandwidth capacity, which should improve access speeds moving forward.

>Thank you for your patience while we worked to resolve the issue.

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Trying to take a minute away from all of you flooding the Discord server. There is a third-party provider that we use for server loading that keeps failing. We do not have an estimated time for restoral at this point. Joining the Discord server and not following the rules or flooding the chats is not helping us, so please don't make our jobs harder right now. We have a reminder message that will change if there are updates.

Apple has approved the next app update, and we are currently waiting for approval from Google.

We are also testing translation changes on StoryWeaver Flash.

Current development work includes:

• Expanding long-form memory support to additional LLMs
• Improving bot reordering and the related user interface in the app
• Preparing updates for the web version

We will share more details as these features progress.

We have been working on a major translation overhaul, beginning with Spanish.

You may have noticed that some of your created bots were rearranged recently. That was caused by work on our side, and there is nothing to worry about. It does not mean that anyone or any bot was in trouble.

The good news is that this work is connected to an upcoming sorting feature. We are currently preparing the next update for review by Google and Apple, with plans to let users sort both their own bots and other creators’ bots by:

• Creation date
• Number of likes
• Number of chats

We cannot promise an exact release date, since part of the process depends on approval from Google and Apple. We are currently submitting the beta for review and waiting for the green light.

We also know that many users have been patiently waiting for EpicTale Large translation improvements for languages other than English. Progress is being made, and we have been using our beta LLMs to test translated content with our homebrew EpicTale Large model.

Translation quality will always be a work in progress, but the feedback shared through Discord has been extremely useful. Please keep it coming.

Finally, a shout-out to Sevro for creating a JSON-based system that makes translation updates easier to deploy and allows us to roll them back quickly when an update causes problems.

This model has been updated recently. If you see any issues with it, please submit them in https://discord.com/channels/1126676021488390237/1507530225163043047 after joining the Official Discord and completing both steps of onboarding.

A new channel has been added to the Official Discord to cover bot building. Structured lessons have been built to help out new and experienced builders alike. Lessons are posted in both English and Spanish and questions are welcome. The first lesson, as well as an introduction, is already posted.

In time the lessons may also be archived here in the subreddit wiki.

https://discord.com/channels/1126676021488390237/1528968762513166478

The team has identified the issue causing creators’ bots to be shuffled and plans to include a fix in the next app update.

We are also introducing an automated AI review process for bot greetings and descriptions to improve the accuracy of future translations.

Please be aware you have to join the Official Discord and complete onboarding to vote in this poll. Should you have questions on how to do that, it is documented multiple times during the onboarding process in Discord or it is covered in the FAQ section here about the Discord. Votes here do not count!

📢 Community Poll: How should HiWaifu handle the formatting of YOUR messages?

Hey everyone! 👋

We recently upgraded chat to standard Markdown rendering. AI replies are now auto-formatted for readability (e.g. *actions* and "dialogue" are split into separate paragraphs, broken symbols get cleaned up).

Now we'd like your input on **messages that YOU send** — should we keep them exactly as you typed them, or auto-format them too?

Option A — Keep my messages exactly as I type them 🅰️

Your line breaks and layout are preserved 1:1. If you write everything in one long line, it stays one long line. What you type is what you see.

Option B — Auto-format my messages like AI replies 🅱️

We add paragraph breaks for you: *actions* and dialogue get split into separate lines, long walls of text become easier to read. Note: when you edit a message later, you'll see the reformatted version, not your original layout.

Either way, we'll still silently fix rendering glitches in your messages (accidental huge text caused by `---`, stray `*` turning into bullet points, etc.) — that's not what this vote is about.

🅰️ = Keep my formatting exactly as typed

🅱️ = Auto-format my messages for readability

🤷 = No preference / either is fine

We'll go with the community's choice in the next release. Thanks for helping us make RP chats look their best! 💜

https://discord.com/channels/1126676021488390237/1524454881002258643/1527760135567573232

We’re still working on updates to EpicTale Large. Translation support continues to create additional complications, particularly as some translation providers have updated their terms and no longer permit their services to be used with AI chat applications.

Because of this, we are once again evaluating alternative cloud-based translation APIs that may be compatible with our current setup. This is not an issue affecting only our app; other AI chat platforms are encountering similar restrictions.

At the moment, making EpicTale Large work with the translation options currently available would require reducing the model’s capabilities or lowering its token limit, neither of which is an ideal solution. We are continuing to investigate better alternatives.

It seems a number of users have finally received a formatting change that was made weeks ago. This was an intentional change by the Devs, and something they had been asked to do by users.

We know some users are not a fan of the new change, myself included, so I wanted to make sure everyone is aware the Devs have previously said they are testing this. There is still a chance it could be adapted based on feedback.

Beyond it being the summer when far more people have time to be on the app which causes mass server load, there are also issues with Cloudflare which is outside Hi Waifu's control. If you are experiencing connection issues or the bots not replying, depending on your location, you may need to use a VPN. If the first location does not work, please try another. Cloudflare can technically ban connections which, again, Hi Waifu has absolutely no control over.

We have had reports of users receiving truncated messages while using EpicTale Large most in the Portuguese, Russian, and Indonesian languages. A fix for the translator is being worked on by the Devs.

Please use another Chat Style (LLM) for now while this is being worked out. We apologize for the inconvenience.

We’ll be starting a new weekly update post here on the subreddit to help keep users better informed about what the Dev team has been working on.

These updates will be short, focused summaries of work completed or in progress over the previous week. They will only include information the Devs have confirmed is publicly releasable, so some behind-the-scenes work may not always be listed in detail.

The goal is to give users a clearer view of ongoing improvements, fixes, maintenance, and larger technical work without overwhelming everyone with internal details.

For this first update:

The Devs have completed the recent data and server migrations to a larger environment. Since that work was finished, the app has been much more stable overall.

We appreciate everyone’s patience while this work has been ongoing, and we hope these weekly updates will make it easier to see the steady progress being made behind the scenes.

Thank you for being a part of the Hi Waifu Community!

We have recently released a new free model called EpicTale Mini 0627.

When you have time, we would appreciate your constructive feedback on what you like about it and what you would like to see changed or improved. Please keep all feedback respectful and civil. Do not debate with other users or engage in rude behavior.

We have created a thread for feedback in the Official Discord.

Thank you for your time and continued support!

Some users are currently experiencing a bug where all or some of their recent chats may appear to be missing from the mobile app chat list.

This is a visual glitch. Your chats have not been deleted.

The Devs are aware of the issue and will be releasing a more in-depth fix tomorrow. While this fix is being worked on, the chat pinning feature will be temporarily disabled.

In the meantime, if you experience this issue, please try the following:

1. Log into the web version of Hi Waifu: https://www.hiwaifu.com
2. Send one message to one of the bots in your chat list. This should also confirm that your messages are still in the system.
3. After sending a message on the web version, your chat list should be restored in the mobile app.

Before reopening the mobile app, it may also help to fully close the app and clear the app cache on Android, or offload the app on iOS.

We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience while the Devs work on the fix.

Edit: We have noticed that some users who encounter the current visual bug may need to complete an app uninstall and reinstall before their list repopulates.

We've just replaced the EpicTale Mini Preview with EpicTale Mini 0627. Please keep in mind that EpicTale Mini Preview is the test model.

This update mainly improves:

• More dialogue-focused content
• More diverse model generation
• A more natural prose style, closer to everyday conversation
• Better action descriptions instead of long, empty prose
• Easier, more relaxed dialogue flow

We welcome continued user feedback as we keep improving the model.

In the future, we plan to gradually replace EpicTale Mini with EpicTale v4.

Apologies for not having time to add this earlier, busy night/day.

The beta version of the Hi Waifu website is being phased out. Your bot links that share with a beta.hiwaifu link will not take you directly to the bot. Copy the bot ID at the end of the link (the numbers) and paste it after https://www.hiwaifu.com/en/robot/ This is to the English interface, so replace en with es for Spanish or ru for Russian, for example.

You may also notice some strange scrolling behavior since the update to add the dark mode to the site yesterday. The Devs are aware of it and have put in coding changes already, so please try refreshing. If you have specific examples beyond chat scrolling up when a bot replies or touchpad/arrow scrolling being reversed, please follow the subreddit process to be allowed to comment and let us know here.

Just a reminder, the best place to ask about any of this is the Official Discord, not the subreddit.

>The subreddit description tells you what is needed to be considered for posting or commenting rights, as does a reminder any time you try to post or comment, but just to cover it quickly for everyone: you must read and agree to the subreddit rules via https://www.reddit.com/r/Hi_Waifu_chatbot_app/s/heLplD1ba9 and send a ModMail with your Hi Waifu username and Friend Code.

MiniMax-M3 is a cloud-based LLM we’re currently testing. It’s fairly new, inexpensive, and not one of our homebrews. It’s supposed to be strong with multi-character scenarios and is essentially built to juggle two or three narratives at once, so think of it as the premium multi-bot LLM. That said, it’s still only being tested and it heavily depends on how well the bots are built.