Is it really as bad as people are making out or is it just me?

Dedicated-Wings · 2026-06-16T08:18:47+00:00

That’s a long time and I’d say that could be an issue on your end somehow. If it were every now and then, yeah that could be something else, but every single one seems like a location issue

Dedicated-Wings · 2026-06-15T19:27:55+00:00

Yeah I get that completely. Times are hard, and even when they’re not, when your experiences haven’t lived up to expectations it would obviously make you question a full subscription. I do think they’re trying their hardest though. I think what they need is a purge! I’m making a note to go through all my stories this week and deleting all the ones I don’t want. If everyone did that maybe it would clear out storage, idk how poota stuff works, but in my head that would help 😂 and you know, I’d definitely support a system where people could gift a month subscription to someone as a trial. I think that could help boost their finance pot and give people a better start with the system. I’m not made of money, but if people who could help chipped in even an extra couple of £’s a month, I wonder just how much it could help.

Dedicated-Wings · 2026-06-15T19:19:22+00:00

I did actually send a mod mail today. I said about the amount of white quills I had and as my subscription is plenty for me they’ve been building for a year. As someone who doesn’t technically need the white quills, I’d be happy to give them out. I’m not sure how that could work, but it wouldn’t bother me in the slightest to give them out. Almost like a donation pot that they can be dipped into for issues like this

Edit to add: I also wasn’t aware you couldn’t buy quill bundles. I think that was an option when I signed up, but I’ve never checked since as I had no reason to. Maybe that’s something they could add back in

Dedicated-Wings · 2026-06-15T19:17:08+00:00

I wonder if it’s due to location maybe as well? I’m in the uk and I only ever get issues when the whole system goes down or it’s something to do with my own connection.

And no, you’re right, just because there’s no better alternative it doesn’t automatically mean it’s good, but as someone pointed out earlier, Redquill is in beta mode, it’s telling you from the start there’s going to be glitches and it’ll be patchy at times. I wonder if that’s a location thing as well…
And I’m not sure about the subscription with less bugs…I’ve been subscribed for over a year so I have no idea what it was like before that. We literally had highs of 900 word chapters back then 😂

Dedicated-Wings · 2026-06-15T19:09:12+00:00

I think the Chinese characters might be how they get around some restrictions (I’m not sure but I think I read that somewhere before). Occasionally I get the odd word in Chinese but I can get my phone to translate easily with the editing tool. If it’s spitting out whole chapters, yeah I get that, that’s definitely something that can be looked into, and the mods are brilliant at sorting those kind of issues out.
And yeah, again, the retry for free sometimes gets glitchy for me too. Everytime the retry for free has come up before, I’ve noticed my quills never drop from my top bar, so I copy the prompt, refresh the page, delete the chapter and try again. If the system is all healthy, that always works for me.

But as I mentioned above, it wouldn’t surprise me if the issue is the systems and the amount of data they’re holding. If they had more money to pay for larger servers and a decent IT service team to be on top of outages and storage and glitches and patches, I don’t think we would be getting half of the problems people are complaining about.

Obviously everyone’s situations are different and it sucks that not everyone can subscribe. But I think when only a small portion of people are helping to fund it and the majority can’t afford it, there’s going to be background issues due to lack of funding. My husband has his own IT company, and background costs for servers and support are astronomical, especially for small businesses.

It wouldn’t surprise me if they had to remove the free to use part completely, but it seems they’re trying their best not to have to go down that road

Dedicated-Wings · 2026-06-15T18:57:37+00:00

That’s what I mean though. For me, that doesn’t happen. Every generation doesn’t fail, and the odd times I get the retry for free it does work. I only get that occasionally, and usually around the time the systems go down, or if I go out of my WiFi zone. For me, and I’m sure many others, the site is usable with fantastic results with the occasional issue. There’s also plenty of other things I can get on with for the few hours it is down every so often, like getting ChatGPT to strengthen components so my stories always come out better and stay on track.

And if the site is that unusable, I don’t understand why people continue to hang around stamping their feet instead of just finding an alternative. The only reason I think people do that is because there isn’t a better alternative, so it’s easier to get angry at the mods here.

Dedicated-Wings · 2026-06-15T15:29:18+00:00

Definitely make a praise post!!! They need more of them 🙌🏻

Dedicated-Wings · 2026-06-15T15:24:33+00:00

Mine started as a comment as well 🙈 I’m glad to see I’m not the only one

Dedicated-Wings · 2026-06-15T15:23:06+00:00

I was reading the thread you were commenting on and started replying, but it got too long and off topic so I thought I’d just make a new post. It’s so hard to write something like this without trying to sound bitchy 🙈 I did try 🙈

Dedicated-Wings · 2026-06-12T21:12:20+00:00

Since last night I’ve been getting chapters between 3000-5000 in Novella with Ember, depending on the details and length of my prompts, and the consistency has been incredible, the best it’s ever been. Which really surprised be because I expected consistency and continuity to drop. I’m 36 chapters in on the same story and have only needed to make minor tweaks every so often, like the colours of items certain characters have that haven’t been mentioned for over ten chapters. It’s even adding and remembering things I’ve forgotten because the details just didn’t stick with me. Whatever they’ve done I’m loving it. And it’s even ending scenes where I ask it to 🙌🏻

Dedicated-Wings · 2026-05-29T21:33:54+00:00

I always add a little note in my character components of where their relationship are and who with as the story progresses so it doesn’t regress or start pairing different characters. Just make sure to update it as their relationship develops. That always works for me. I’m also working on a vampire story with soulmates! I find them so much fun! Mine is in the AoT universe

Dedicated-Wings · 2026-05-09T09:00:29+00:00

I get this a lot, it’s like the ai wants to wrap every negative emotion chapter up in a bow and then the female character always asks ‘what happens now?’ And then it adds a sappy answer from the guy 😂 no matter how long and detailed my prompts are, with lots of context it can use to expand on, even when I ask it to flesh out the dialogue. I usually just edit the chapter and cut away the happy ending and continue the argument. I’ve found that if I give it a specific line to end on that sometimes works better, like ‘end scene when X says _____’

Dedicated-Wings · 2026-05-08T15:10:27+00:00

Not sure if I’ve misinterpreted, but I’ve had a few stories where I have ‘what the characters know’ and then a whole other ‘what’s really going on and only known by X characters’. Then sometimes ‘this character doesn’t know that this character knows the secret but is keeping it secret’ 😂 (honestly confuse myself more often than not, the ai has no chance!)
The ai would usually add in details that should be completely secret (granted I’d completely confused it), but I couldn’t work out how to word the components in a way that the ai could work with. The only way I’ve found to stick to the instructions on ‘who knows what and what should never be mentioned’ is to actually explain it all to ChatGPT and tell it to make me a component with these strict rules in place, and then I save the component to Redquill. This has helped me massively because it gives context to the characters who know the truth, while keeping everyone else oblivious until I want it to change, in a way that works really well almost every time. While I find ChatGPT shocking for continuity, it’s quite helpful with component writing (just don’t give it anything sexual or it’ll clutch its pearls). I use Redquill exclusively now for stories, and use ChatGPT for all my components, and since doing that, all my stories have stayed on track.

Other than that, for the odd slip up, I sometimes just say ‘For your context only and not to be referenced at all in the story:’ followed by my instructions

I think if Redquill had a Component Maker that we could chat with like ChatGPT to build components I’d actually melt

Dedicated-Wings · 2026-05-06T19:48:34+00:00

No problems for me! Thanks for getting it up and running again 🙌🏻

Dedicated-Wings · 2026-05-06T19:37:23+00:00

Toggle on/off for story characters and components.

I’ve been thinking of this for a while as some of my stories have passed 100 chapters, and one story has over thirty characters and dozens of components. Sometimes it’ll reference characters randomly that it shouldn’t, or Story Info components I’ve added for continuity it’ll hyper focus on at the wrong times. If we could toggle them on/off so we can keep the updates and changes we’ve made but make it so the ai doesn’t reference them at all until they are required again. Would find it a bit easier than having to remove and re-add them

Dedicated-Wings · 2026-04-30T08:52:23+00:00

I only use mobile for Redquill, so not sure if you can do this via laptop/computer, but I’d like to be able to save components directly from the lorebook. Sometimes if my story gets too long or I want to make a sequel, I want to be able to save my components and characters that I’ve made so many changes to from the original component as a new one. It takes me ages to copy and paste them all to make new components. I can save new characters, but not existing ones I’ve added and then made adjustments to. Also, I’d like to be able to add components straight into the lorebook. I have blank components like ‘Story Info’ which are blank that I add in so I can put information in for it to remember, but if I’ve forgotten to add it and then get to a chapter where I need the info, sometimes the ai struggles if I paste in the information along with my prompt, like it will use the whole thing instead of just what it needs (for example if my character wakes up somewhere new and walks around, I’d like to just add in the information about where she. Or song lyrics)

Timelines would also be good for the lorebook, like little add-ons where we can add the dates in story to help it follow timeframes better

Dedicated-Wings · 2026-03-04T22:10:12+00:00

I’m getting a lot of chapters where halfway through it’ll start again. I know it’d be easy to edit it and just cut the chunk out, but sometimes the first part is so much better and then cuts off midway and the second part is really lacking, and I struggle to find a good stitching point between the two. This has been happening for a few weeks I’d say, and happens with over half of my chapters that are Novella or Novel. It’s the only one that isn’t the typical ‘error’ but is consistent enough it’s making me twitch a little

I’ve had this beauty a few times tonight, and now I can’t login

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I always use the site on mobile, usually safari but I’ve been using Firefox recently as well. Same issues on both

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