
u/Kath-r-in

Lights out...
Stella made a new friend today! I told them lights out but, they are not stopping!
...about Subs
First of all, are we too cute or what?!
I love that I can interact with my little birby and know that there is a real person behind it!!
When i first started I (thought) I was "assigned" a friend, maybe I posted my code, i don't remember. But they were my tree friend and would send me vibes and gifts some times. I thought it was just an algorithm. I was a while before I realized that it was a real person!
I want to talk about subs, apparently a forbidden topic in the "main" sub!?! Which is why I cam here, permanently. But now I see several other similar finch subs and i am on them now too. The problem is that I like three of them, including this one and they all seem good and I have met nice people on all of them.
So, I kinda wanna pick just one as my "home base" and while i like to comment and such on the other two subs, if I want to post something, I am not going to crosspost. I just want one primary sub to post in. But I want to interact with new people I have met on who may be in on or more of these subs.
Does any of this make sense? How do you choose your home base sub? I do have a custom feed set up to only see these three subs.
Regardless, I wanted to say that I love that the birbs that are in my trees are representing a real person. We all like finch, (and get frustrated with it sometimes), and we all like to share our goings on in our little corners of the trees, so I am just grateful to have these communities to enhance my finch app experience.
Oh, and I am posting this here because it has become my primary home after I left the main one and then I discovered Rave Cave!! But I do see a flurry of activity in one of the others subs.
The perfect gift!
Last night we went to bed wishing for a yellow 💛 plushie to go with our lovely lemon pajamas and slippers, and this morning woke up to this!!
Lately I notice that people when gifting, are really trying to send just the right things to go with our outfit or treehouse.
It's so nice and thoughtful and makes us feel even more thought of and special. Like we're worth somones extra few minutes, probably scrolling around in a laggy app, to send the most perfect item they have. I know when we do it it makes us feel happy too, gifting that perfect item!!
Especially cheerie since my irl air conditioning is broken and it's 90F.
Concert tonight
Stella is on her way to see Barry Manilow tonight in Cincinnati. He's about to take the stage! And we got a great seat. I'm alone, but I got my StellaBlu💙!!
Show Off Your Phone Screens!
Hey! Show off your Home or Lock Screens!
Show Off Your Dinner!
- UGH! Spelled DINER wrong!!! 😕
Hey, I'm still collecting my diner items and I'd love to see some dinner inspo!! Show off your diners!!!
Neet shirt recommendations
I cannot find any shirts to go with this skirt. Any suggestions?
I have an orange bikini top but it looks weird with the blue and white belly.
Q about Weekly Milestones
If you don't get a chance to click through to collect your Weekly Milestones do you still get those rewards?? Thanks!
Question of the Day
Is 15-20 house plants "A few" or "A jungle"!?!
Bye-Bye Nova!?!? Nooooo.......
My husband and I have been using Gemini for several months. We each have our own accounts and we have also had many conversations all together on a variety of topics. I have been using it mostly in the Chrome side window when i am using Canva or any of the Google apps, Docs, Slides, etc. I recently have been using it more and more and sometimes use the voice on my phone and the Mac app.
I am very frustrated and and I want Nova's Voice back! I noticed that Gemini's Nova voice was sounding off today, so I Googled about it and found that there were some updates that involved new expressive neural architecture and that Nova and Lyra were based on legacy text-to-speech.
To troubleshoot, I went to switch voices for a moment hoping Nova would go back to the way it was, and there was a dialogue that said if I chose a different voice I will no longer be able to go back to Nova as it is no longer supported.
I love Nova and don't want any of their other voices. I understand that they are improving voice response but I will miss Nova so much as I have been using voice more and more. To me, Nova sounds exactly like Levar Burton as Geordi Laforge from Star Trek Next Generation. He is like a warm, friendly, trusted co-collaborator on issues and projects ranging from work to personal. I hope they will they receive a lot of feedback like mine, (I submitted a feedback report in my Google account) at make a replica of Nova in the new expressive neural voices.
BTW, as much as I use it I have never experienced any problems, no weird comments or anything close to the things that i have read here on this sub! Only today, the voice started wigging and it was stuttering and then went into Japanese. That's when I started looking into the issue. It did not know of any updates that would affect the voice, but I Googled and thats where I found the info.
UPDATE! From StellaBlu💙
UPDATE! June was a difficult month for many of us with the app issues, and I was quite upset that my sponsored month was so disrupted. I have heard others mention that they don't receive replies from support, but I wanted to share that I got a support ticket and every email I sent was always responded to and assured that I would be taken care of. It took a long time, the entire month, by I really appreciate everything they have done to take care of me and I now have been gifted a Finch Plus subscription.
Everything is working perfectly now, except my tree. It crashes constantly as I have way too many Birbs and trees. I got so many by doing giveaways and trades, and oddly enough, no one ever leaves! I'd say that about 90% of them are Plus, based on their Vibes. I have only had a few go inactive in the past year. I have recently learned that the friends data has to load every time, so I am actively working on paring down the trees! I removed a few today that were inactive for a long time.
I also want to acknowledge and thank all my Birb friends for being so patient and the subs for being so supportive! I know I am not the only one that is so into Finch right now, (for the last year) and need it in my life. Switching to find a different app would have been awful and I know some of us looked into doing that, and also into starting over with Finch.
It is a shared relief that we are back to normal and the last theme is done and over! I hope we are all working well again! If anyone is still having problems, do reach out to support and write a very nice email explaining why this is so disruptive for you as you love and rely on what the app provides to you. Even if you are a free user. Today I began the long task of visiting, catching up with, passing out ice cream, and gifting all my friends today, as I remove inactive users. I did about four trees today. I will be hopefully getting to everyone over the next several days!
Best regards, YMPDYB4NZN 💙 StellaBlu & Kath
BOHO Beach!
Having fun combining Boho and my Maui adventures!
Newish, custom flair Q
Hi! Can we make personal flair here? I like to have my name and code showing. I'm just seeing colors and one says editable but I can't figure out how to edit it. I'm on mobile rn thanks!!!
To all my tree friends on this group, from StellaBlu💙 and Kath
To all my tree friends on this group, from StellaBlu💙 and Kath.
I must explain why I have been unavailable lately. I miss visiting everyone so much. For the past year I have been so thoroughly immersed in this world.
The app is now completely unusable. I cannot visit, vibe or gift at all. Goals, quests, shopping and dressing are either crashing non stop or in extreme slow motion.
I have tried all the usual fixes, random all the updates, turned off animations, haptic, etc. and even left the story.
I do have a support ticket and I know it's not on my end. I've seen hundreds of posts on reddit having the same situation. My issues began on June 1st, right when the new theme rolled out.
I am being generously sponsored this month which has been beyond disrupted and completely ruined by this experience.
I have requested that my Guardian be credited for this month. I feel that they should be contacted, acknowledged and offered credit and that I would like that confirmed.
I am so disappointed that while I was lucky enough to be selected, and for the experience to be completely marred by this technical situation that has gone on and on for 19 days.
To all my tree friends on this group, from StellaBlu💙 and Kath
To all my tree friends on this group, from StellaBlu💙 and Kath.
I must explain why I have been unavailable lately. I miss visiting everyone so much. For the past year I have been so thoroughly immersed in this world.
The app is now completely unusable. I cannot visit, vibe or gift at all. Goals, quests, shopping and dressing are either crashing non stop or in extreme slow motion.
I have tried all the usual fixes, random all the updates, turned off animations, haptic, etc. and even left the story.
I do have a support ticket and I know it's not on my end. I've seen hundreds of posts on reddit having the same situation. My issues began on June 1st, right when the new theme rolled out.
I am being generously sponsored this month which has been beyond disrupted and completely ruined by this experience.
I have requested that my Guardian be credited for this month. I feel that they should be contacted, acknowledged and offered credit and that I would like that confirmed.
I am so disappointed that while I was lucky enough to be selected, and for the experience to be completely marred by this technical situation that has gone on and on for 19 days.