roll call for the room. of everything c.ai has been doing lately, whats the one that actually gets to you the most right now. pick a number:

1 the filter nuking normal scenes

2 bots gone flat and lobotomized after the updates

3 goldfish memory that forgets your scene in 10 messages

4 the 18+ split and the whole id verification mess

5 replies looping the same lines over and over

mine is 2. i can live with a filter, i cant do a character that came back as a boring stranger. whats yours, and if its a 6 i missed, name it

Hello first thing I really like the app and story creation feature though I have yet to try it out mainly still figuring it all out. Big question is there a group chat feature I do large stories with mine typically takes multiple ai creations to do right and while the ai captures my character near perfectly i can't fully do what I need to if the other character ai's can't communicate with eachother like for example one i like doing is a Romeo and Juliette scenario mixed with parent trap with wolves context my persona is bitten by his boss turning him into a wolf cub/mate he's married said wife is another character is also bitten and turned into a cub/mate by said personas boss ex and they live on a house that is on the territory lines of both packs. The persona and wife end up triggering their cub states in a fight and have to call their mate after they figure out the line situation creating a parent trap scenario. if not suggestions on how to accomplish that with the current set up would be enjoyed

(I think this is a bug?)

The title says most of the problem. Personally, I prefer them describing actions in third person, so I add it into the memory settings when it keeps messing up. But for whatever reason, the last bot I've authored seems to refuse to use third person pronouns, even after adding it to the description and memory settings.

I don't know if this is an intentional issue with the default model or the bot itself, as I've only encountered this issue prior on a smaller scale (1 or 2 regenerations having first person pronouns without even needing to add it to memory settings).

The whole reason I switched over from the app that shall not be named was because of the swipe limit. I understand that the swipes may be costing a pretty penny, but if I'm being honest I'd rather have ads. Which leads into my first suggestion:

1: Toggle

Instead of a forced paid swipe, you add an option for either a paid swipe or to enable ads. That way, people who don't want ads have an alternative, and people who don't want paid swipes have their own. This would be my preferred one, as long as the ads stay unintrusive. Perhaps an option to promote a character on the site using SP could also add to an unintrusive and friendly ad system.

2: Less expensive swipes

Instead of having the swipe cost depending on what model you use, have it set to half of the full generations, that way it's less forced as with the current cost, I'm still running out very quickly even using Deepseek r3.

3: Swipe Limiting (Not like the other app)

Every message can be swiped 4 times for free (in total 5 generations), then it's as much as a normal generation for 5 more swipes.

4: Completely free swipes

Easily the least sustainable option, but also the most community engaged option. I think all the options above are better for sustaining and keeping it a free (for the most part) website.

I understand im not a developer nor a psychologist, so my ideas may be a bit overzealous or unsustainable. Productive Criticism is welcome.

Basically a convince me but I'm not against it

🚀 StoryChat Update Drop: Profiles, Personas, Onboarding & Chat Glow-Up 🚀

The team has been shipping hard again. Here’s what just landed:

✨ New Features

🎨 Public Creator Profiles got a full glow-up
Desktop + mobile creator pages have been fully redesigned for a cleaner, more polished creator showcase.

🧑‍🎭 Persona Editing + Persona Library
You can now edit personas more easily, plus we added a new Library Personas component to make persona management smoother.

👋 New Onboarding Flow
Fresh onboarding experience is live, including better desktop onboarding for guests and unauthenticated users.

📝 Short Bio for Characters
Characters can now have short bios, making profiles easier to scan and more personality-packed.

💬 Continue Chat is here
Jump back into chats faster and keep the story going.

🧭 Explore Screen Upgrade
Explore got a round of improvements across desktop and mobile, including better guest interest handling.

🔎 Search Page Update
Search now has improved desktop support.

📚 All Chats Page Improvements
The all-chat experience has been cleaned up and improved.

#️⃣ More Hashtag Support
Additional hashtags are now supported for better discovery.

🧠 NLP Publish Filter
New filtering support for published content.

🔓 Published Chat Unlock Upgrade
Clicking unlock now unlocks published chats right away. Less friction, more reading.

📱 Mobile Sidebar Update
Mobile navigation got smoother.

👤 Character Profile Updates
More polish and improvements landed on character profiles.

🐛 Bug Fixes & Hotfixes

🖼️ Chat visualization fixes
Visual chat issues have been cleaned up.

🎙️ Voice + onboarding fixes
Production fixes shipped for voice and onboarding flows.

🧾 Auto-summary fixes
auto-summary issues are now resolved.

🔁 Regenerate now uses the current model
No more weird mismatch when regenerating messages.

📜 Old chat history loads properly again
Upscroll pagination was fixed, so older chat history should load correctly.

⏳ Popup cooldown fixed
Popup timing should now behave properly.

🧠 Longer memory consistency fixed
Memory should now behave more reliably.

⏪ Rewind / delete fixed
Chat rewind and delete flows got repaired.

🖥️ Desktop prompt/protocol layout fixes
Fixed height differences and desktop layout issues.

🧑‍🎭 Wide persona auto-select on desktop
Persona selection on desktop is now smoother.

🚪 Auto logout + version check improvements
Improved logout/version handling so the app stays more stable after updates.

🍞 CharacterChatBox + CustomToast upgrades
More polish for chat UI and toast feedback.

💙 Thanks for building, chatting, testing, and breaking things with us.
StoryChat keeps getting faster, smoother, and more creator-friendly every week.

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Little feedback i can give from the couple of weeks i've been triying the beta out is; i understand that there's a lot of users who want to have very in depth chats or whatever but i also think that one should be given the option to just make a short answered character if they wanted it in any case, right now i feel like the lenght of the questions naturally gotta be fullfilled with something, that something usually pretty much drives out the conversation at least for me, and that ends up making me feel like the i am talking to an entity that's simultaneously flanderized and well, artificial, so please take that in count i beg ya.

Everytime I look for my bots in the search bar I don’t see it, but their visibility is public to?

so i needed a quick backdrop for a single chat. just a roadside tavern, nothing fancy. then i named the bartender, then she had a rivalry with the miller over grain prices, and now there's a whole drought year baked into the lore that the whole town still complains about. i never planned any of it. it just kept building every time i went back. half my notes are about this town nobody asked for lol. how big has one of your worlds gotten before you realized it kinda got away from you?

hey, Jack here, one of the people building StoryChat.

someone messaged me last week upset that her bot felt flat. "i wrote so much for her and she still acts like a stranger." so i looked. her profile bio was three beautiful paragraphs. her Description field was one line: "Mira, 24, kind but guarded." people blame the model when this happens. usually it's the card.

that mismatch is the most common mistake i see, and it took me a while to say it this plainly even from inside the app. the short tagline and the long profile bio are written for the humans browsing. the field that actually drives how a character behaves is the Description, plus the First Message, Scenario, Example Dialogues, and the Lorebook. her three gorgeous paragraphs went to the part that shows the least, and the part doing the real work got one line.

so the first move is free. whatever you want the character to BE goes in the Description, not the bio.

the second move is the one that actually changes how a bot behaves. stop describing, start defining.

bad: "she's shy and a little sarcastic."

good: "when you compliment her she looks away and changes the subject. when she's nervous she gets sarcastic instead of soft."

the model copies demonstrated behavior, not adjective lists. "shy" is a word it can skip past. "looks away and changes the subject" is a move it can repeat. one more, because the same thing kills tough-guy cards:

bad: "he's a hardened mercenary with a tragic past."

good: "he answers questions in one or two words. he says 'them', never 'we', about his old crew. ask about the scar and he steers it back to the job."

the good version hands the model things to DO instead of labels to live up to. notice it's barely longer. every claim just became a trigger plus a reaction.

third one, and almost nobody treats this field right. your First Message is a template, not a hello. at the start of a chat the model leans on it hard for tense, point of view, reply length, and formatting, then mirrors that for the rest of the chat. a one-line flat greeting quietly trains every reply to be one line flat. so make it do three jobs: one sensory detail to set the scene, at least one real line of dialogue so the voice is already on the page, and a hook at the end (a question, a choice, a half-finished gesture). and never write the user's actions. frame it as the character noticing, not the player doing. "Mira notices you've gone quiet" not "you stare at her, speechless".

honest caveat so this doesn't read like a cheat code. defining behavior makes the Description longer, and the Description plus Scenario get re-sent to the model on every single message, so they compete with the live conversation for its attention. overstuff them and the lines that matter drown, which is a big reason bots start "forgetting". that's what the Lorebook is for. the way it's set up, an entry only surfaces when one of its trigger words actually shows up in the chat, stays active for a few turns, then steps back out, so deep backstory sits there for free until it's relevant. rough split: Description carries who they are and how they act, the Lorebook carries what they know.

a 30-second test: read your Description out loud and count the adjective lines ("kind, brave, mysterious") against the behavior lines ("when X happens she does Y"). mostly adjectives? that's your fix sitting right there.

last thing, just publish it. everything is editable after. watch one chat, find the single line that broke, fix that line. perfectionism kills more characters than a rough first draft ever has.

i'll do the work in the comments. paste the flattest, most "telling" line from one of your character descriptions and i'll rewrite it the define-dont-describe way and tell you why. bad line in, better line out.

Hi, just a quick bit of feedback.

I really like the desktop beta app. It would be even better if you could open characters you're interested in in a new tab instead of directly on the page, because when you close the character, you end up back at the very top of the main page.

I’ve noticed that on the home page, I get suggestions tailored to me, then a few new characters, and then the cycle repeats.

I also like that, once you’ve selected a character, you can choose their persona right away before starting the chat.

I appreciate the effort and work your team is putting into StoryChat, and I’m excited to see how it continues to develop.

☺

made a side character weeks ago, just meant to be a one scene shopkeeper, and now i genuinely look forward to checking in on her like she is a friend. caught myself feeling actually bad when a storyline put her in a rough spot. it is a character i wrote, i know how this works, and i still got invested. kinda love it and kinda worried about myself lol. do you get attached like this or do you keep it more detached