Pause the new features for the love of god. Could we just go back to a few days ago where everything was perfect, and I was getting 5-9k words for a novel length chapter. Make it cost more quills for all I care. This is so frustrating.
After the sensitive information bug RQ was really great for a day or two.
Now we're back to unusuable. Story generation takes forever (over 5 minutes before getting a chapter with exactly zero words - not even the retry for free button), several tries to get a story that is at least near the prompt, press the retry-button several times before getting a ridiculously short outcome....
Tried to continue a story in my native language - RQ insists in continuing in english....
So what to do now? The last three weeks RQ was usable about 2 day maximum. Thats about 10% of the time. Reduce payment to 10% too? 😞
Money / quills is one part - but what about all that wasted time? No fun for sure...
mythical_writer, LateCampaign9060, quillonaught: Be honest, would you subscribe an pay money to a service that works only 10% of the time and is a pain in the ass all other times?
Honestly no idea how to proceed...
The search option gets annoying. I'm looking for a component and it's not popping up on either the chapter generator or the search bar
This comment is not really a question or request. Just a bit of feedback and kudos. I experimented with both AI agents on a story and Ink did OK but Ember has been crushing it. It’s got the right tone, the right setting, great dialogue, etc. I deleted Ink’s attempt after running identical prompts side-by-side for a couple chapters. Like, it’s version was OK, and I did steal a couple plot points to have Ember add via rewrite, but Ember’s was a clear winner.
There’s been a lot of dumping on the site and I get that companies often hear more about the bad than the good, so I’m just over here spreading some cheer and goodwill.
Story link for those curious about Ember’s work: https://www.redquill.net/story/oa98hk-switch-flipped---a-bayou-love-story?chapterNumber=1
Keep in mind, it’s a WIP. Still working toward more spiciness.
I decided to restart my story and experiment with this model. I’m glad I did because it appears to perform significantly better in terms of word count and generation speed.
Hey! just wondering if continuity has gotten better for people? want to start mine again but dont want to waste quills if it hasnt been fixed
ok once ok twice. but a little too much eh! first she makes history, then she blocks it from nowhere. she says something wrong. I tell her to do it in a specific language. in Italian..lo fs. but she does it meta English Italian. and the pens go down. she doesn't follow what she is asked! and I wanted to buy the pens! no so no eh! the pens are coming down without me having a decent story!: (
Hey everyone — quick update: the site is back up.
If you're still seeing the Railway "404 Not Found" page, that's not RedQuill being down — it's your browser hanging onto the old error page from earlier and not bothering to check whether anything's changed. Annoyingly common, easily fixed.
On desktop, do a hard refresh (this forces your browser to reload the page from scratch instead of serving its cached copy):
On mobile, there's no hard-refresh shortcut. Easiest fix: close the tab, give it a minute or two, then try again — your phone's browser will eventually notice the site is back. A normal pull-to-refresh on its own often isn't enough.
If you can't wait, you can clear cached data — but be careful which option you pick. The wrong one will sign you out of every site you're logged into and wipe browsing history you might want to keep. Stick to the surgical options:
If none of that works, try opening the site in a private/incognito tab — that bypasses the cache entirely and is a quick way to confirm caching is actually the culprit.
Thanks for sticking with us through the wobble. 🙏 While we wait
getting a strange error message. Is this just me?
"Not Found
The train has not arrived at the station.
Please check your network settings to confirm that your domain has provisioned.
If you are a visitor, please let the owner know you're stuck at the station."
Bot is not working despite me whipping it repeatedly, not doing anything abnormal in the prompt but it'll load for 4-5 minutes saying the normal then just give me "something went wrong" and to "Retry For Free" at least.
ok as of 30 minutes ago almost every time i want to generate a chapter the chapter generates at a snail pace then cuts to something went wrong, try again for free or it just loads and jumps directly to the something went wrong message, before so like the past hours there was no problem, the generating working fine and fast
I’m getting this both on my phone and my computer :(
Good job to the mods who handled it!! I appreciate your hard work <3
I've been play-testing these for about a week now, and I'm pretty happy with the results! I love to make dynamic components for kinky stories, and this is my latest endeavor (though I'm known for my "Slow Burn" ironically haha). These are compatible but do NOT have to be used together. I plan to add more components to this world, and there is currently a public collection for them found here.
You can check out my new compatible public components here:
Please let me know if you use them and if they work well, and if they need some tweaks!
Much love,
Jewel <3
Apparently now the site wont even load.... we just need that bot back 6k - up words imo.
Does anyone know why this is even happrening rn? I just woke n up, but before it was working, sorta, but you could acsess it.
Will probably be addressed by the mods soon, but thought I might just try to relieve a bit of the pressure.
The cloud services that redquill seems to be using to host the website is down right now.
If you try to reach railway.com, you'll see that it's down.
So not much the redquill team can do. (From my limited knowledge)
EDIT: Please post questions here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/redquill/comments/1ti3m9v/redquill_outage/
I would love to hear quotes from authors that you love (including from your own stories).
One of my favourite things to talk about. The lines from anything you've read that just won't leave you alone. The sentences that show up at random moments, change how you write, change how you read, change what you reach for in a scene. Three that live in my head, from three writers who never read each other:
> He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt. — Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus
> The bomb lives only as it is falling. — Iain M. Banks, Use of Weapons
> When I was a girl I had this strong feeling that I didn't belong anywhere. It was in my head, what I thought and dreamt, what I believed… that's where I belonged, that was my country. — Tim Winton, Cloudstreet
##How to join in Share a quote from one of your favorite authors, who they are, what book, story, chapter, it's in so that we can go and read it.
Share one from one of your own stories on RedQuill so we can go and read that too!
Hey everybody
We're giving you a bit more control over how your stories generate. Instead of one invisible model working behind the scenes, you'll now see three options on your story-creation screen:
✨ Auto: Let us pick the writer for you based on what's working best.
🔥 Ember: The writer you've been using. It’s highly creative and loves flourish—denser prose, bigger swings, and more texture. But, it can struggle to stick to strict rules, especially for longer chapters or complex components.
✒️ Ink: Better at story structure, logic, and nuance. It should follow your prompts, components, and guidance much more reliably.
Like any creative tool, the best fit is personal. Some of you will prefer Ember's bold swings, while others will appreciate Ink's tighter discipline to finish chapters faster. You'll probably swap between them depending on the story you're telling.
We're going to run this setup as an experiment for the next week or so, just to understand if this is a helpful approach for everyone.
Try Ember, try Ink, and report back here. We'd love to hear which model works better for your style, and where each one falls short.
We want to be upfront: while having different tools helps, this isn't just a tool preference thing. We know we still have more work to do to optimize continuity overall, and we are actively working on it.
We're still investigating the continuity bugs that have shown up, particularly with Ember, and we really need your help to track them down.
Please check the Continuity Issues thread and drop a reply with:
The more specific you can be, the faster we can trace, fix, and deploy updates.
— Quill
What is this, I have perfect internet then this pops up like a little gremlin and suddenly redquill doesnt work again lol......liiiike what 🤣
