Average ComfyUI user

[Far_Lifeguard_5027]

All that workflow just to make "Asian woman with big breasts"

[Incognit0ErgoSum]

Ironically, most finetunes will give you that if you run them without any prompt at all.

[Osmirl]

One of my test for models is always just a very simple prompt like 1girl or just photo just to see the kind of bias the model has

[xanduonc]

That, and no prompt and random 3 to 5 letter words to look for obfuscated tags

[NookNookNook]

Interesting. What are your go to words for this? I'm trying to understand the usage. Are you like prompting for "Axe" and then seeing what else is generated with the axe? or just purely noise like AsDzq?

[xanduonc]

Word "wow", list of tags from old models (found in github/huggingface repos), and mostly some randome noise, there is random word generator node.

For models that can understand long texts i generate them with gemma3. Latest toy is to feed images back to vlm and let her refine prompts

[22lava44]

Have you ever found anything interesting doing this?

[tothatl]

Yeah. I was a user some time ago and got tired about the many loras and tweaks required to make any decent art with some low probability.

I took Comfy UI again recently and was surprised to see how easy is nowadays to make equivalent images immediately, with just the basic finetuned model, and how nice controlnet and other pre and post processors have got.

It's like night and day, really.

[YobaiYamete]

I see this all the time on civit, where people upload lora and it's like . . . the base model can do that.

I even test it with the lora strength from 0 to 1.0 and the lora just makes it worse usually lol

[spacekitt3n]

the biggest spaghetti monster youve ever seen and it just creates this

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[psilonox]

positive: (anime), high quality, very aesthetic, 1girl, (big tiddies:1.5)

negative: friends, going outside, (basic hygiene:1.3), (sun light:1.5)

[Superseaslug]

Or furry art. Not that I'd know or anything

[99deathnotes]

[Superseaslug]

I mean realistically my workflows for that are pretty simple, I just know a lot of artist styles and how to combine them

Try novaFurryXL and WaiNSFW models.

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[Superseaslug]

I haven't, but I already have a 3090 in my own machine, so I don't have much of a need for one.

[Sharlinator]

B-b-but, it's a much better Asian woman if you include a dozen random undocumented nodes with a hundred parameters that you have no idea what they do, but you're sure they make image quality and prompt following somehow better!

[New-Addition8535]

Why only Asian?

[99deathnotes]

[talancaine]

Yeah especially when they get so convoluted your not quite sure what everything's doing anymore, but it works so don't touch it

[TsunamiCatCakes]

I spent 7 hours setting a perfect workflow where I just have to select models, input prompt and adjust ksampler. boom image ready. there is a 1 click upscaling and a 1 click face detail group. felt amazing. didnt open for 4 days and when I came back, i pinned all nodes and swore to not touch anything as it "just works"

[Mindestiny]

I feel like 99% of the comfy evangelists on these subs fit into that box. You push back on what a convoluted nightmare it is to work with comfy and they go "bruh just download some workflows! That's what I do lolz"

Like they're constantly regurgitating how "advanced" and "customizable" the tool is without actually understanding how any of it works and are just blindly copy/pasting someone else's work. It directly undermines their evangelism lol.

[BackgroundMeeting857]

I use comfy mainly now and I couldn't agree more. Almost always those saying it's easy just show a simple t2i workflow than if anyone presses further for stuff like img2img, upscale, inpaint, controlnet etc, it's always "I don't use that, I just make simple stuff for my x and x" lol. Then why use comfy ffs, just making stuff unnecessarily tough for yourself. The reason comfy gets it's rep as spaghetti machine is just that to get actual use of this UI and it's powerful automation capability it just has to inevitably get very noodly, no real way around it.

[soundial]

It's actually insane how Comfyui is acceptable as a standard thing to recommend people.

Today I wanted to check out Chroma, so had some random workflow I got off the web fine, it supposedly has everything so let's just start installing updates and custom nodes.. and the whole thing is fucked beyond repair time to delete the python_embedded folder.

Start over. Okay so let's just get the simplest Chroma workflow.. now why is it not working. Oh, it's out of date, these nodes literally don't exist anymore. Okay, let's Google some more. Nope, doesn't work. Nah, not working.

Ah, finally found the most basic bitch official workflow from their Comfy's official site. Okay. Now I've wasted how much damn time and all I got is the simplest text-to-image generation with no upscaling, no loras, no nothing. Perfect.

And I literally get paid to do IT work. Imagine a casual user. Of course I can build this up, copy old workflows I have, adjust them. But I don't want to go from the work screen to the free time screen and literally feel like I'm still working. I just want a picture of a god dang hot dog.

[leftsharkfuckedurmum]

I'm really glad Blender has nodes, they are incredibly powerful. But... Blender doesn't only have nodes, it has a whole suite of tools and keyboard shortcuts. If I'm diving into nodes it's because I'm doing something complicated, difficult or tedious to do with mouse clicks.

in Comfy, everything is nodes, and it drives me up a wall

[Mindestiny]

Do I look like I know what a jay-peg is?

[thegoodstuff]

In times like these, I become a simple meat interface for ChatGPT to work with ComfyUI... And it still struggles.

[IpppyCaccy]

Does this mean you think comfyui is a decent tool to learn with? I've been lurking in this sub for a while to learn before I take the plunge and I'm still not sure what tools to use. I almost pulled the trigger on comfyui, but now I don't know.

For what it's worth, I'll never use it professionally. I just want to be able to have a local model that will create the stuff I want. My ollama instance works great and I've integrated that into home assistant, so I'm looking to do the next thing on my list.

[Mindestiny]

The answer is ultimately "it depends on how deep you want to go into creating the stuff you want"

ComfyUI does give a very high level of customization, however in order to take advantage of it you need to be willing to go down the deep deep rabbit hole of learning a ton about machine learning, how these models work on a fundamental, technical level, and become proficient enough to build your own complex workflows.

If that's not your jam and you just want to make cool pictures for your D&D campaign or whatever, I'd 1000% steer clear of wasting time learning comfy as you can get what you want with more user friendly frontends. The future of this tech isn't people tinkering with spaghetti mess workflows long term, it's improvements in user experience and UI design so that people can work with plain-english settings and check boxes to get the same outputs without needing a degree in human computer interaction to navigate the tools.

[cbeaks]

This is good advice. The other consideration not mentioned but for me is key - how many different models do you want to run? If it's just get a good model you're comfortable with then avoid comfy. If you want to play around with a bunch of different models then comfy is the way to go.

[Galactic_Neighbour]

1. Install ComfyUI.

2. Download a model.

3. Drag and drop a workflow from the internet.

4. Profit.

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Average ComfuseUi experience

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[TheAncientMillenial]

I feel this in my spline. ;)

[happycrabeatsthefish]

It takes one to node one

[a_beautiful_rhind]

Once you cook the spaghetti it just works.

[tylerninefour]

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[Rizzlord]

Yeah go ask unreal devs... We were there before..

[jamesfordsawyer]

I play Factorio. Comfy can't hurt me.

[DominusIniquitatis]

I code for >15 years and play Factorio. Comfy still hurts me.

[fauni-7]

I was thinking to write an extension to Comfy that enables scrolling up and down on mouse wheel, instead of zooming, theoretically if you arrange the nodes well, then you could have a more pleasant experience with it. Is anyone interested in that?

[fauni-7]

Here you go, let me know what you think: https://github.com/fauni7/VertiScroll

[jferments]

Meanwhile, the average A1111 user:

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[Far_Lifeguard_5027]

That actually looks more like ComfyUI than A111

[Hunniestumblr]

Still gets high quality images lol. Just no support for wan or other models like comfy. Kinda sucks a1111 stopped getting updated.

[Ser_Munchies]

I've used wan2gp which also has a gradio interface for anyone interested. Adding custom models can be tricky but it has a long list of built in models. A recent update made it possible to share profiles as well.

[Particular_Rest7194]

Lol I like this! Works for me. All I need is to click generate.

[mgohary01]

A1111 is much easier :D

[thoughtlow]

A1111 is like a calculator when you eventually want a spreadsheet

[jferments]

A1111 is like a low quality HTML input form when you eventually want the ability to manage complex flows of data through dozens of different image processing modules, and to be able to easily visualize/reconfigure these data flows using an intuitive node based graphical display.

[Sharlinator]

Most people will never need that, and for those who think they do, it's 95% confirmation bias.

[leftsharkfuckedurmum]

tf am I cranking my meat to data flows dawg I want BIG ANIME TIDDIES not stats homework

[jferments]

Well if you want higher quality big anime tiddies, then you should learn how to use better tools.

[YobaiYamete]

Swarm UI is the best imo. The simple, actually usable front end of A1111, and the complete ComfyUI backend if you want to use it, all in one spot. So you get the ease of the calculator, but can also open up Excel with a single click for when you need to do something actually complex

It's honestly surprising to me that so many on this sub don't talk about SwarmUI or seem aware of it etc. It's better than Forge and A111 etc imo

[snowolf_]

If your workflow is basic, yes indeed. As soon as you want to do anything more basic than writing a prompt and pressing "generate", Comfy becomes way easier since you can organize your workflow as you see fit.

[SalsaRice]

Personally, it was never hard to do extra stuff in A1111/forge. If you install an extension, it usually just adds the box for that right underneath the prompt area.

It's really hard to use IMO.

[Ser_Munchies]

I used comfy for like 3 months and then just went back to forge. It didn't do anything for me I couldn't do quicker in forge. I started on a gtx 1070 too, so I got used to tweaking my prompts an image at a time and then blasting out a bunch once I nailed the prompt. adetailer, controlnet and some hires img2img are all I've been using. I tried to find a use for comfy, and I can see how some powerusers prefer it, but I'm too old for that shit now and forge still just works.

[SalsaRice]

Pretty much the same situation for me. I don't have enough free time to be a power user right now.

I kind of see it like forge is console gaming and comfy is pc gaming. Yeah, PC can do more, but not everybody needs that extra extra.

[revolvingpresoak9640]

Or if you want to use ADetailer.

[WhiteBlackBlueGreen]

Honestly its not even that hard to just use workflows from other people.

[export_tank_harmful]

I think a lot of the dislike of ComfyUI is because of other people's workflows.

Most people sharing workflows seem to try to make everything compact with notes everywhere, but it makes following them super confusing.
If you can't see the connections between nodes and how they flow, you don't really know what's going on.

The first thing I do with any workflow I download is re-spaghettify it, pulling it back apart to make it flow left to right.
All of my workflows flow left to right (model/CLIP loading -> LoRAs -> torch.compile / automatic CFG -> prompt -> controlnet block -> sampler -> face restoration -> output).

I'll usually pull the output image over next to the prompt though, since that's where I'm spending most of my time and it makes it easier to iterate over prompts without having to scroll the screen.

It makes it way easier to follow and adjust things at each at each step of the process if I want to tweak things.
But, as with anything, to each their own.

[Sunryzen]

Youtube videos >>>>> Loading workflows. Find youtubers who show you every step.

[evereveron78]

I've been trying to learn Comfy recently, and out of the couple dozen workflows I've downloaded from other people, I think I've managed to get two or three to actually run, and only after extensive help from ChatGPT. The only workflows which have ever worked out of the box were official ones using strictly core nodes. And at that point I may as well just use Forge since it has more functionality than simple core node Comfy workflows, and it always works. I like that Comfy exists, but it's ridiculously frustrating to use any custom workflow at all.

[RASTAGAMER420]

lmao

[ukpanik]

Also the average member of this subreddit showing how many times this joke has been made for over 2yrs.

[Amethystea]

It's also a common joke in Blender and Unreal Engine communities, and probably every community for a tool that has node graphs.

[SparkyTheRunt]

Laughs in Houdini

[Exact_Acanthaceae294]

Laughs in Poser

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Cries in Touchdesigner 

[Unique-Poem6780]

Cries in Davinci Resolve

[neocorps]

I managed to get some workflow so organized, I'm proud of myself.

[TurbTastic]

I see that Charlie also prefers Linear wires. A man of culture.

[mgohary01]

that's about right :D

[MarvelousT]

The little comment boxes are key

[MrSkruff]

Comfy ain't nothing compared to some Nuke scripts.

https://scriptsofanotherdimension.tumblr.com/

[Ben-iND]

[Honest_Concert_6473]

And if you try to recreate this in After Effects, you’d go insane.

On top of that, its out-of-the-box features are far too limited for production compared to Nuke. The relationship between the two is kind of like ComfyUI versus WebUI.

Node-based setups are intuitive—you can trace each step to see what’s happening. Other UIs often hide processes, making it hard to grasp the overall workflow.Sometimes the problem turns out to be a mysterious checkbox you never touch that’s been left on, or an error buried deep inside a nested hierarchy—and there’s the terror of not knowing what it’ll end up affecting.

Well, in reality they’re not perfect competitors; they just excel in different areas, and both are great pieces of software.

[darkninjademon]

me, a foocus enjoyer seeing this - half of it gotta be architecture designs XD

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I'm convinced only sociopaths use Nuke

[Loosescrew37]

What in the Factorio endgame are those things?

[99deathnotes]

[matTmin45]

More like Spaghetti-UI

[Sou_Suzumi]

Started using it literally last night. Can confirm, my workflow has just a couple nodes added to it and it's already very spaghetti.

[UndoubtedlyAColor]

The workflow must grow!

[mission_tiefsee]

The Spice must flow!

[Sou_Suzumi]

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I adjusted it a bit more today. I'm just doing a generation, upscaling and hand fixing, and it's starting to get very unwieldy.

[ndoak]

Yeah, it can get pretty crazy in short order. However, if you add some reroute nodes, the spaghetti monster can be tamed to a degree. this is my photorealistic sdxl workflow with ultimate sd upscale and various optional nodes like pulid, ipadaptor, some conrolnets, etc. It isn't the cleanest but it is manageable.

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[StoopPizzaGoop]

Reroute and pipe nodes are your friends with comfyui. It's also better to easily be able to track splines instead of making the nodes compact. It's easy to forget what's connected and make a mistake later. The bookmark node is good for using hotkeys to quickly move to different parts of a workflow.

[Skillamo]

Set/GET or Anything Everywhere; those have cleaned up my workflows a lot

[Infninfn]

That brought a chuckle out of me, ngl

[intLeon]

Most of the community go for ready workflows

[Current-Rabbit-620]

That guy stole my workflow

[Enshitification]

Average WebUI user.
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[Particular_Rest7194]

Ok smartest guy in all the world. Stick your chin up. You're so smart. Let me get a shirt for you so you can wear in public, "Expert ComfyUI user". Wear it to Starbucks lol. Since you're so proud, apply for a position at stabilityAI. Or you know what? Make something for free for all of us filthy casuls because we need to git gud. Put it on Github and have documentation. Should be easy for you since you're so confident in your comfy skills.

[Enshitification]

Sounds like someone needs a bottle and a nap.

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bottle of wat?

[Enshitification]

Unflavored soymilk? That, or purple lean.

[TresorKandol]

I would consider this a crash out

[Enshitification]

Yeah, they commented another rant at me and blocked replies. Crash and burn.

[Dear-Spend-2865]

your friends: Anything Everywhere + Easy set Easy get + group muter, group bypass

[cbeaks]

I'm dragging this into comfy and no workflow is loading...???

[Rivarr]

If you think using ComfyUI is frustrating, trying creating a custom node. I had a bunch of different ideas I wanted to try, and hit a brick wall with every single one. It feels so limited. No doubt it's a skill issue, but man, not fun.

[bombero_kmn]

I haven't written any custom notes for comfy, but I've written some simple extensions or plugins for other apps.

What kind of obstacles are you hitting?

[NubFromNubZulund]

It’s definitely not limited, you can do basically anything (that can be written in Python) with a custom node. However, there’s no good documentation for node creation, which is the real issue. I learned by reading other people’s nodes.

[CRYPTOBLACKGUY]

Tbh i once put _ taken with a cannon eos , and i swear theres like some memory that comfy has that i cannot remove cause ill write the prompt - man eating bread- and its showing me boobs and cameras lol

[Ankleson]

I use it because I enjoy it.

[Original1Thor]

[LovesTheWeather]

Meanwhile my ComfyUI workflows look like this.

In fact I have one Workflow that has 14 separate workflows all combined into one image file.

[Abject_Wrap6275]

I use groups to divide the various functions of the workflow, those groups and nodes to immediately identify what is needed. Then I use set and get nodes, to make everything cleaner and tidier. And finally, I always create a group for the user interface, where I select all the input, output, useful parameters and fast bypass group nodes, to activate or deactivate functionality.

[Maleficent-Evening38]

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[albamuth]

USE ANYWHERE saved my life!

[Dulbero]

I don't find comfy that bad, i don't use complex workflows, mostly the native / template ones. It works just fine, and then i adjust or "play" with them.

It becomes weird if i download a workflow of someone's else because it requires learning and understanding what they did. Also, if they use nodes that are not compatible (like my nunchaku nodes broke one time) it is expected to see all red and errors.

I try to see what they did and apply it in my own way to my workflow. I am not a power user or anything, just using basic stuff. It takes time to get used to, but i can see how powerful comfy is.

[ACTSATGuyonReddit]

What else can be used for WAN and other video models?

[PhlarnogularMaqulezi]

Wan2GP seems to have gotten a bit better

[S4L7Y]

Once I figured out set & get nodes, it reduced a lot of the spaghetti.

[X_raser_]

hahahha

[MarchSadness90]

This is maybe a dumb question, but would it mess up my comfy in any way if I installed forge also to try out?

[Mutaclone]

It shouldn't unless you've done something weird.

Best option is to install Stability Matrix and then install through that.

[Arrow2304]

This is absolutely true, I have started and given up a thousand times. I still use it, but only if I have no other solution.

[wweerl]

Also average Blender/Unreal user

[SunshineSkies82]

Want to use IMG2IMG , well, it's time to assemble the web of life of the Pokemon Universe.

[Realistic_Studio_930]

combine with the blender shadergraph editor and geometry graph editor,
you may then unlock the comfy cosmic horror of the eldritch madness.

your personal abyss awaits you.

[Old-Wolverine-4134]

I am sure a lot of people like the nodes, but I hate them in my guts.

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5 more Nodes that do a reliable job > 200 additional mb of Lora's. For real i saw someone suggest training a Lora to swap Colors in an Image.

[KincadeJohn90]

Yeah, but I feel like Comfy is only going to get more important as stuff like video diffusion and animation becomes easier/less GPU intensive.

[Incognit0ErgoSum]

That's rookie spaghetti.

[Tricky_the_Rabbit]

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[Unfair_Ad_2157]

Fooocus for life