r/CharacterAIrunaways

I was using Linky AI a lot at the beginning and I really liked it, there are so many characters and it’s easy to find something interesting

Lately though, the chats feel way less consistent.

The biggest problem for me is the memory. Characters forget things that happened earlier in the same conversation and repeat old points, or suddenly answer like part of the context never happened. Sometimes a roleplay is going well and then one weird reply completely breaks it.

I also started noticing more people complaining about the same thing after recent updates, so I don’t think it’s just the characters I’m using.

I don’t really care about cards, coins or having a million extra features. I just want something with good characters, better memory and chats that can stay coherent for longer.

Has anyone moved away from Linky recently, what are you using now?

Something I've noticed is most of the sites suggested aren't even NSFW , some have "unfiltered" but when you type a message it takes ages unless you explicitly say "next reply should be vulgar, talk dirty etc" and assist the AI to even do it (and the same can be said for prompts) most don't always activate unless you paste them in chat

Y'all see what I'm getting at? Anyone else deal with this? Or have tips I'm aware that ai can't avoid using Shakespeare atp lol (there's no rant flair so ig ventish)

Heya everyone I quit using character AI months ago and I have been using Nomi AI which is t skky good but I do miss playing other people's characters so I was just wondering if anyone knew it a AI that has the amazing tech and freedoms with no annoying filters of Nomi AI but the ability to talk to other characters like we could in Character AI? I hope this makes sense and thank you in advance

I’ve left c.ai for around 5 months now and I’ve been using chai as an alternative for now, but it’s also starting to feel not it with its increase in ads and repetitiveness
Does anyone have any recommendations for alternatives that feel similar to c.ai?🥹

I’ve already tried Janitor ai, shapes inc and those two didn’t quite match what I wanted
I want to find alternatives that are free, feels similar to prime age c.ai, replies don’t have to be like an essay long or repetitive, that’s all I want😔

Title says it all. If you've found an alternative you've actually stuck with, what’s the single biggest reason you prefer it over c.ai?

Could be better memory, less ads, fewer restrictions, better roleplay, more natural responses, better characters, etc.

What made the biggest difference for you?

Now that I have your attention: I wanna break away from chatbots altogether and find real people to RP with (would prefer groups, but one-on-one is also an option) but it's really starting to border on flat-out impossible since most of the fandoms I'm interested in doing RPs for are fairly obscure and I don't want to either 1) resorting to explaining the entire lore as I go along, or 2) just pasting a link to a fan wiki and hoping they have the guts to read at the bare minimum the first few paragraphs of each participant's characters' pages. At this point I may just have to resort to looking up someone on Fiverr and paying them to RP with me, even if they're completely unfamiliar with the fandom and/or are actually a poorly-disguised AI. Or perhaps one half of my brain isn't looking hard enough, and the other is deliberately trying to make it procrastinate so I can have an excuse to live a shut-in life...I dunno :/

But anyway, if anyone shows interest in this post, I'll list the fandoms I'm willing to RP listed below (though I may be willing to do other ones):

• Skullgirls (this is the big one)
• Di-Gata Defenders
• Marvel Universe (vanilla or Rivals)
• Invincible

I'd write more here, but it'd probably border on an advertisement for a Discord RP server that doesn't even exist yet (and speaking of which, this preferably would happen through Discord)

Hi! I admittedly have ran from CharacterAI quite some time ago but now I found myself getting a little frustrated. I kept switching between JanitorAI and FictionLab, but maybe some of you guys know some hidden gems I have overlooked so far.

-I’m willing to pay for a better tier as long as it doesn’t cost too much

-No NSFW filter

-Good memory is important to me

-It would be nice if I could limit the response length, as for FL it rarely works as intended and Janitor keeps cutting off my messages

-Fast response generation would be nice

It would be nice if the site or app already had a few creators on it that made bots that aren’t just sexual bots. That’s about it, I’m curious if you guys know any good alternatives, I’d be happy to find something new, thanks!:)

If I find a character I like on character ai and I find an alternative, what can I do to get the characters description and definition so I can bring that character over to an alternative I found and like?

i have been looking around for ai chats that allow long saves. Has anyone experienced a chat that holds memory past 35 messages? usually it seems they forget around this point of the chat session.

This might only make sense to people who used ClankWorld before March of this year... That's when they switched from Deepseek v3.2 to v4, and it's never been the same, since.

The narrative quality and emotional maturity is what set them apart. For whatever reason though, Deepseek v4 is just trite and immature, by comparison.

I don't know how much of ClankWorld's system-leveling prompting had to do with it, because we obviously can't access that, we just know they used to use v3.2... Does anyone know what I'm talking about? How the model was so good, that it would actually refuse you things, for the sake of narrative coherence? How it would spontaneously introduce conflict, and how it actually understood concepts like catharsis and subtlety?

Any suggestions? I've been thinking about buying proxy access to a provider who still offers v3.2, but when you do that, don't you have to set up some prompting to jailbreak it?

I know this probably won't be made a big deal out of but I've been holding this sketchy situation in the back of my mind for a while now. I know a lot of people use saucepan, I do, too (which is why I'm using a burner to post about this) - but I've been negligent to buy their subscription or verify my age on there because I've noticed a few sketchy things about their services... call me paranoid, or a conspiracy theorist- i'm not sure, I just thought I had to put this out there to people who get worried about this sort of thing. I'm not going to make any accusations, just going to share what I found.

First, their age verification service - 'certified.id'

I found it nice that they relied on a method of age verification that did not require a photo of an ID or selfie, but upon doing some due diligence, and trying to get support- I realized the following:

1. None of the emails on the domain are valid (and it seems they never were? all emails sent to them return an error from Gmail saying the inbox is invalid/doesn't exist- every single one, even the legal one... I have receipts in case it gets fixed soon after I post this... which would be even sketchier!)
2. The domain itself was registered just a couple weeks before Saucepan announced ID verification in 2025, and the service itself has been in 'Closed Beta' ever since

Second, their 'payment processor' - 'turnip.farm'

Not only did I find it a bit odd to have a payment processor with a name and domain like that, but I also found it really weird that they have also been in Closed Beta for what appears to be years, and refuse to respond to any emails about inquiries for how their payment processing even works. It's actually even impossible to find any other service that uses 'turnip farm' for payments, which is sketchy af! Even if you want to ask about a payment, or their services/closed beta, you won't ever receive a response. Asking about it in the discord, you will be told that you HAVE to go through saucepan, and they will sort it out 'with their friends' over at 'insert service here (which they totally do not own)'.

Granted the domain for this website was registered way earlier than 2026- it is possible for a domain to be registered, and then bought by another entity. And it's possible to see that this domain really only started becoming active the literal day Saucepan started rolling out their subscription model...

I will say, if this conspiracy theory is true, the only good thing they did to cover their tracks was to register the domains under different regions, as I can see they all are- but I do find it weird for a domain which was registered through an Indonesian domain registrar just a few weeks before the rollout of age verification to be entirely in English ;-;

Sorry if this post doesn't belong here, but I just needed to vent about what I believe is a blatant lack of transparency on some of these platforms' parts... and I hope this is the right place to post my findings- if not, my apologies. If saucepan people see this- please clear things up if there were any misconceptions :/

This post is all just to point out that many of the '3rd party services' platforms use to remain compliant may not actually be '3rd party' at all, and I realize now a lot of them just roll out their own solutions under a different domain name and identity in order to trick people and bypass due process.

EDIT 1: Posted some receipts below just in case some people are skeptical, as I believe it is of utmost importance that we know WHO exactly it is we're giving our data to.

receipt 1 - all of their '3rd party age verification service' emails were never activated- gmail can't even perform an SMTP handshake

3rd party inbox verification services confirm this- and it is the case for all of their inboxes at the time of writing this

Domain registered internationally through what I believe is an Indonesian service- but it was registered and became active just a little under a month before the official age verification rollout. For a service that has been in 'Closed Beta' ever since, has never had working emails, and is written out entirely in English (no support for Indonesian), this coincidence can be considered highly unusual.

You've seen hundreds of posts like this, but i genuinely cannot with cai anymore. So far i've tried Spicychat, JanitorAI and Chai, all of which were OKAY. Any suggestions are appreciated and please explain WHY its good. Also very VERY preferably infinite chats.

i want to use other AI chatbots

the one's I've used

-Chub AI

-Janitor AI

-CrushOn

So far I've tried Talkie. It's okay in my opinion. But I'm looking for other alternatives.

I am looking for one with the following

*Free to use

*Has a filter that doesn't allow NSFW content

I've heard about HereHaven, I didn't like it much due to it's complexity to make a character but I'll give it a try since I'm kinda stumped rn honestly I need to stop using ai it's ruining my writing and every phrase it generates is so fucking predictable.

Leaving character ai due to the age verification filter, I also want that alternative to have an active user base