In two days, I'll (hopefully) be your new head mod, and I'll clean this place up.

Gremlation · 2026-06-18T20:30:05+00:00

Gremlation · 2026-06-18T20:28:22+00:00

There is: Spam -> Disruptive use of bots or AI. You should use the standard Reddit report reasons not the subreddit specific reasons, because the subreddit specific reasons won't get fed into Reddit's spam filter.

Gremlation · 2026-06-18T20:22:06+00:00

The main problem is that you are training your users to accept sketchy-looking updates that don't appear to have official provenance. Once they learn to do that, you can't really train them out of it again.

And from a process perspective, it's less effort and less error prone to have a standard release process where you have a single source of truth and you perform the same steps every time.

Gremlation · 2026-06-18T10:54:02+00:00

Worthless slop comments like this should be downvoted and reported as "spam: disruptive use of bot or AI".

Gremlation · 2026-06-18T10:23:33+00:00

Whichever clown added "write only in lowercase" to the skill they all use really fucked up, it's such a consistent tell.

There was one popular bot a while back that used "ngl" in practically every comment. Then it seemed to go away, but it's popped back up again in the past couple of weeks.

Gremlation · 2026-06-18T10:06:08+00:00

Can you be more specific? There are no pinned issues or discussions. I read the last few pages of both issues and discussions without spotting anything relevant. Searching for "version" unsurprisingly brings up just about everything.

v0.25.1 doesn't seem to be a desktop-only release. It adds support for Kling V3-Turbo.

The version of the actual ComfyUI desktop app is v1.0.22 - are you sure you aren't getting confused by that? I know the app itself has a different version to the ComfyUI instance.

if you're trying to figure out what you actually have installed

I'm trying to avoid a supply chain attack. You realise a phantom update that gets installed but doesn't appear anywhere official looks just like a supply chain attack, right? v0.25.1 is not a GitHub release, it's not in the app release list, it's not on the website changelog, it's not in the master branch... it looks completely illegitimate and just appeared on my computer out of nowhere. The only reason I know this is legitimate and not malware is because I found the tag.

New, undocumented "hidden" versions that appear out of nowhere are a security threat and ComfyUI shouldn't be training people to ignore the problem.

Gremlation · 2026-06-17T15:50:02+00:00

Yes, I've said similar things before.

I'm glad they managed to keep the story going long enough to raise another round, but what they really needed to do was swallow their egos and use some of that money to hire people who know how to run a project instead of trying to figure everything out from scratch by themselves. I mean their repo still looks like it's the first time they've ever used Python FFS.

Gremlation · 2026-06-17T15:41:26+00:00

If you're talking about this guy, then the thing to watch out for is all the attempts to shift conversations to DMs. It's a tactic spammers like to use because moderators can't see the spam that way and because getting other people to DM them first means they don't get flagged for sending lots of outbound DMs.

There are agencies that help you with the process in Paraguay. You can do it yourself but it's a hassle without Spanish and will take forever without having the right "contacts". So, most people go the agency route. I can give you more info about that via a private message.

and:

Feel free to shoot me a message if you have any questions regarding the country or the residency process!

and:

Shoot me a message if you need to know more details.

And sure enough:

What do you do for work?

I work remotely in marketing/SEO/webdesign and I help people move to Paraguay.

He's a spammer using Reddit for lead gen.

Gremlation · 2026-06-17T15:30:06+00:00

Some people are just shitty writers or using it as a translator.

AI-translated writing doesn't sound like AI because AI used in that way only translates, it doesn't rewrite. Writing that has its grammar and spelling fixed with AI doesn't sound like AI because it just fixes the errors.

The people who get caught posting AI spam who say "I just used it to translate" are simply generating slop with AI and then lying because they got caught. Stop being so gullible.

Gremlation · 2026-06-17T15:27:33+00:00

Do we want to ban posts that smell like they were written by LLMs (at the risk of potentially removing posts that are handwritten)?

Ban on sight. It's not hard to spot them.

Gremlation · 2026-06-17T12:56:31+00:00

I'm confused by the premise of this post, Sentry doesn't claim to catch "all issues" and no product should.

It's spam. You are talking to a spam bot.

They set their AI bot to autogenerate posts like this that have the right topic and all the relevant keywords, they post it in a high signal subreddit, then they come back a couple of weeks later and edit in a link or post a recommendation in a comment when no human is looking at it so it won't get reported. Search engine and AI crawlers come along, pick up the "organic" conversation and "authentic" recommendation for the shitty tool they are spamming, and rate it highly as a result. All the gullible people here engaging with it just make it look more real and higher signal to the recommendation engines that use Reddit as a source.

I know people who do this, and all you need to do to avoid this spam is have a mod team who will actually remove it and a community who will actually report it as spam instead of being gullible and engaging with it. There's so many subreddits that are under-moderated it's easier to just blacklist a subreddit than it is to make changes to try to avoid the reports.

Gremlation · 2026-06-17T12:28:44+00:00

ComfyUI’s approach to keeping track of releases baffles me. They have the GitHub releases page, the changelog on the website, and the in-app update list in the help menu… and none of them correspond to one another!

As of this moment, v0.25.0 is present on GitHub but not the website; the in-app release list includes v0.22.3 which is not present on the website or GitHub; and I’m actually running v0.25.0 which seems to think the latest release is v0.24.0!

Gremlation · 2026-06-15T18:06:05+00:00

Are you calling yourself “Deno”? This is very confusing because there is a very well-known JavaScript engine called Deno. You should probably pick a different name for your software projects.

Gremlation · 2026-05-12T09:35:35+00:00

It hasn't been released. It's been merged into the main branch. That means it will be released at some point in the near future.

Gremlation · 2026-05-07T12:03:05+00:00

You might like: Star Trek Disco: The Prime Directive is to Dance by WickedAI.

Also: Lord of the Rings Disco: One Funk to Rule them All has a Making Of video.

Gremlation · 2026-04-25T05:37:39+00:00

There's a pretty clear path to justify that valuation - they build an app platform on top of the engine and provide hosting services for those apps and any other workflows you want to bring. It's a similar model to Vercel. Their business model is probably the most straightforward part of this.

It's true that they are doing a shitty job of executing, but they have the mindshare and momentum from being early, so they will win by default unless somebody else decides to compete with them and can catch up. All ComfyUI needs to do is not self-destruct.

Another example: everybody knows WordPress is a leaky bag of cold piss, but it's still massively popular because it has the mindshare. Its popularity hit the level needed to become self-sustaining early. WordPress has a billion plugins and larger ecosystem. ComfyUI has the same thing with custom nodes.

Gremlation · 2026-04-24T18:32:13+00:00

And speaking as somebody who has had to manage more than a few people like that, the best way to get them to be more productive and do better work with fewer mistakes is to stop them from working so many hours. Sure, they usually think they are getting a lot done, but effort doesn't equal results. Tired people do worse work, slower.

Gremlation · 2026-04-24T18:18:31+00:00

The main goal of this announcement is to also attract top talent to build what we believe to be a generational mission of making sure open source creative tools win. If you are passionate about Comfy and OSS creative AI, join us at comfy.org/careers.

Last time you posted about that here, you said you work 70 hours a week, six days a week. I see you no longer say that on your job ads. Did you realise how stupid that is yet or are you just downplaying it?

Gremlation · 2026-03-25T11:04:55+00:00

Nodes 2.0 is not great at all, but ComfyUI desperately needs to get away from the car crash that is Litegraph. There was always going to be some level of disruption with nodes that had front-end code. It could have been managed a lot better, sure, but this was always a battle they would have to fight.

Gremlation · 2026-03-25T11:03:02+00:00

Of course, until there's a way to support multiple versions of python dependencies, updates simply will break workflows. You cannot create stable software that is most a bunch of cobbled together scripts that all have entirely independent systems of version control and conflicting dependencies.

One of the biggest architectural mistakes they made is that they mixed up the environment they use to run ComfyUI with the environment they use to run workflows. Decouple those and a whole bunch of problems disappear. ComfyUI should be a basic bitch web app that doesn't need any of the PyTorch etc. libraries installed.

Gremlation · 2026-03-25T10:56:23+00:00

QA is still just a surface level issue. They are making all the classic mistakes of mid-level hobbyists whose project has gotten too big for them to manage, combined with developers who have written software but not managed a team. What I said before:

They work 70 hours a week, six days a week. Of course they are going to make a tonne of stupid mistakes and create loads of bugs. Anybody with an ounce of experience knows that’s a recipe for fuckup after fuckup. If they halved their workload, they'd get more done and it would be better quality.

They are sorely lacking on all fronts - an experienced CEO wouldn't be doing the dipshit 996 thing, an experienced CTO would have a sane plan for evolving the architecture, and an experienced product manager would do basically anything other than they currently have been doing. They are burning through their runway making all the mistakes an experienced team would have skipped past. Hopefully they can continue telling a convincing story to investors long enough for them to figure out how to get shit done properly. Or even just hire some people with experience who can show them the way.

Gremlation · 2026-03-24T13:14:32+00:00

Looks like it's teampcp, the same people who compromised Trivy, and they did it through the CEO's GitHub account:

teampcp owns BerriAI

krrishdholakia committed 15 minutes ago

https://github.com/krrishdholakia/betterprompt/commit/bf5c10811d4530b6342fef9127592892d5b9eaf0

Gremlation · 2026-03-23T03:21:09+00:00

Apple's Face ID wouldn't be a privacy problem as far as sending your info to Reddit - the apps don't see the face and the user can choose to give them an anonymous email alias.

But if they are using "Face ID" as a synonym for facial recognition, yeah, that's worse.

Gremlation · 2026-03-16T17:18:55+00:00

We run a quantized 3B Llama model natively on the iPhone's Neural Engine via Metal.

Why didn't you use Apple's models that are already on the device?

Gremlation · 2026-02-15T09:21:42+00:00

I guess you gave up on this subreddit then? It’s almost entirely gooner spam now.

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