r/glimmerfics

Genuinely I hate this new ai with a passion. I miss the window of time before this where it was so peak after the plague

NOW WERE BACK IN THE BUILDING THATS SOMEHOW EVEN WORSE THAN BEFORE.

glimmer used to be amazing! but now it’s just so downhill, authors are leaving, the ai is regressing. the only reason o downloaded it was because i was bored at work (im a pharmacist), and now it just makes me frustrated. at this point everyone might as well just switch over to status, because at least their ai actually holds memory, while v2.5 doesn’t even write logically anymore. genuinely such a pity because this app used to be so freaking good!!

I'm not going to go into the issues with the AI.

But I feel very strongly that V2.5 is just really stupid. Like it's not a good AI at all. It lacks a lot. In the brain area. Or whatever it is AIs have for brains.

As compared to the other versions, I feel like it's just very stupid in general. Which is what leads to all these issues.

And there's nothing that can be changed about this because how are you going to fill it with knowledge when it's just...ya know, dumb?

Is glimmer not loading for anyone else right now? I cant even get into the app 😫

I can't stand this anymore honestly.

I'm so tired of not being given any agency or autonomy over MY character in a story. Like...there is nothing "interactive" at all about this anymore. And I feel like so many of us are just screaming it into a void.

The ai constantly speaks for my character, makes decisions for them that shape the story and how others react to them, doesn't respect when I try to correct those things, and it's just more interested in making me sit down and read whatever story it feels like telling instead of actually letting me INTERACT. This is happening to me in both structured and sandbox stories. And I know sandboxes are incredibly loose with structure and details, but isn't that because the PLAYER is supposed to have the control? 🙄

It was SO GOOD for a hot minute. The week before V3 launch? Amazing experience- writing was impactful, characterization was spot on, ai wasn't overstepping or interfering. Actual V3 launch? Was mid for me, to be honest. HOWEVER, despite the writing being flat, the characters being horndogs, and constantly being called a menace- it never had entire conversations without me, assumed my character's thoughts and actions, or made decisions for me.

I waste so many turns and undos trying to correct what the ai fucks up. I'm just...fucking done at this point.

Asking for tips on writing a story that’s set in an original universe with a power system and a large cast of characters. I’m mainly having trouble fitting so many characters into the story on top of the already pretty long explanation of the universe and power system in the background tab. I’ve been told using the character tabs makes characters repetitive and bland just asking for any tips about preventing the characters turning out like that. This my second real story and my first that’s not based on already existing media.

one of my favorite authors is no longer going to publish on the app bc of how difficult v2.5 has become. glimmer is losing readers and writers because of a lack of listening to feedback. really quite sad actually

Some fics seem to not be activating the character customization.

Been wondering this since forever, but it's been driving me even more crazy than usual with V2.5's quirks.

Is there a reason the storyteller continues the story in between prompts? Can it be updated to not do that?

There's not a lot more frustrating than being asked to fill out your character info, only for the story to be several turns deep before we get to actually interact with the story.

A good story (IMO) has several character-building prompts to start, like name, appearance, personality, and whatever other series-relevant information like abilities or backstory.

Meanwhile, while we're filling in those prompts, instead of asking the prompts back to back with no story in between (which is what I would like, and what makes sense to me), the AI's churning out wall after wall of text, and sometimes even progressing to the next scene. So it's just controlling our character, or churning out stupid "MC - that's my name, it's been my name forever and I'm saying it out loud because it feels right in my mouth" style text like the professor assigned them a 5 page essay and they need to just create filler.

Prompts being integrated into the story just really... almost never work well.

Dont think I dont see you making everyone's shirts ride up when they stretch 😂

(new to reddit so idk how to label it as nsfw or what to tag it so I put as spoiler and bug report, hopefully that's okay, sorry mods, please don't give me the boot)

Listen, I'm a freaky person, I'm not trying to hide that. I'm getting insanely frustrated at the fact it won't let me play out an explicit scene now? I used to be able to play it out.

Like no matter the story, sandbox or not, it either fades to black, you get interrupted OR it will tell you something along the lines of "I understand your frustration but it's against the guidelines"

Even when it's an 18+ story.

If I sigh in frustration one more time I might seriously asphyxiate. I mean this jokingly.

It's genuinely so annoying :( is anyone else having these issues? maybe the glimmer team is working on it? I heard it might be something with the new ai, but not sure.

Anyone else not able to start a new episode in sandbox's? Or for any story for that matter, I can start a story but I can't proceed to a new ep