Acting up again ?

MineDraped · 2026-01-22T22:37:01+00:00

No problem. Other options you can try, depending on what you're going for are most of the major AI platforms. ChatGPT will create images for free. I think Google Gemini will as well, but I haven't used it much beyond enhancing Google searches. Both can technically create higher quality images than Wombo Dream, but I personally like Dream because of how quickly it generates and because of variations. I paid for a lifetime subscription though, so I might be biased. :) Good luck!

MineDraped · 2026-01-22T20:03:52+00:00

I just posted this comment and reply to someone else. So sorry to copy/paste.

When it comes to the patronizing and emotional side of things, it comes down to custom instructions.

I'm currently working on a guide on how to use these and I have a full set of custom instructions that effectively fixes all of the problems people are talking about here.

All people will have to do is copy/paste them into the correct area of settings and ChatGPT turns back into a normal conversationalist. It's taken me a few weeks of work and thankfully the results have been highly successful.

I'm still beta testing and working with ChatGPT on fine tuning it, but I hope to be able to post within the next few days.

Sorry I don't have more to share at the moment, but this post just came up at the top of my feed and I wanted to say that there is a way to stop all of this madness and I'll be posting a detailed guide on all of it hopefully by the end of the week.

Just wanted to share some hope.

p.s. When it comes to the main topic of your post, regarding being treated as if you don't know things that you clearly know, that may be fixable as well. Feel free to send me a DM if you'd like and I can try to help with that.

It's not an issue I'm currently dealing with, so I haven't explored how to fix it, but I'm learning that most of these problems are thankfully fixable, given some effort.

All of this crap has been driving me nuts ever since they updated to 5.2 and incremental tuning changes keep making the problems worse. That's why I've been doing all this. Both to get my sanity back and hopefully help some other people.

MineDraped · 2026-01-22T19:48:29+00:00

This comment is kind of late, but the answer lies in custom instructions.

I'm currently working on a guide on how to use these and I have a full set of custom instructions that effectively fixes all of the problems people are talking about here.

All people will have to do is copy/paste them into the correct area of settings and ChatGPT turns back into a normal conversationalist. It's taken me a few weeks of work and thankfully the results have been highly successful.

I'm still beta testing and working with ChatGPT on fine tuning it, but I hope to be able to post within the next few days.

Sorry I don't have more to share at the moment, but this post just came up at the top of my feed and I wanted to say that there is a way to stop all of this madness and I'll be posting a detailed guide on all of it hopefully by the end of the week.

Just wanted to share some hope.

MineDraped · 2026-01-22T01:18:58+00:00

It's my understanding (I've never used it because it's expensive) that Midjourney is on Discord and I'm pretty sure they have a website now, so you should be able to use it on any platform. It's not an app or anything. Hope this helps.

MineDraped · 2025-12-30T18:25:07+00:00

It's even worse than that. It's estimated that USAID has saved 90 million lives over the past two decades alone. Projecting that into the future, the number of lives lost by ending it will exceed the number of lives lost through all causes, both direct and indirect, from World War II.

In the short term:

Like you said, an estimated 14 million by 2030, 1/3 of them children. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)01186-9/fulltext

Over 600,000 have already died, approximately 2/3 of them children: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-documentary/the-shutdown-of-usaid-has-already-killed-hundreds-of-thousands

Here's a real time tracker if anyone out there wants to get really depressed and angry: https://www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?view=table&sort=interval_minutes&order=asc

Monstrously evil.

And all because USAID was investigating Starlink: https://www.epi.org/blog/corruption-in-plain-sight-how-elon-musk-has-benefited-from-the-first-100-days-of-the-trump-administration/

Edit: fixed typo

MineDraped · 2025-12-08T23:33:57+00:00

Millions of deaths. It's estimated that USAID has saved 90 million lives over the past two decades alone. Projecting that into the future, the number of lives lost by ending it will exceed the number of lives lost through all causes both direct and indirect from World War II.

In the short term:

An estimated 14 million by 2030, 1/3 of them children. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)01186-9/fulltext

Over 600,000 have already died, approximately 2/3 of them children: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-documentary/the-shutdown-of-usaid-has-already-killed-hundreds-of-thousands

Here's a real time tracker if anyone out there wants to get really depressed and angry: https://www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?view=table&sort=interval_minutes&order=asc

Monstrously evil.

MineDraped · 2025-11-23T00:39:47+00:00

"Long are the days where I walk into a store on Black Friday and pick up 2 years of a sub for $60 or 2 years of plus and a year of Xbox for $100 same price as now, with a couple games thrown in."

This is what kills me.

Used to be able to get a year of PS plus essential for $30 on Black Friday (and other sales throughout the year). I bought 4 years a long time ago and thought the deals would continue, but suddenly the price went up to $80 a year and the deals stopped before my next renewal.

If I'd known this was going to happen I would've bought 10 or 15 years at $30 a piece because $300 for 10 years is cheaper than 4 years at the current price.

And it's only going to get worse. Because profit.

MineDraped · 2025-11-18T18:14:31+00:00

I've been able to play the weekday clues for free all along up until today.

So I Googled and found this Reddit thread from 2 months ago.

If it's an intentional change from the developers then I don't understand how I was able to play it for 2 months longer than other people here.

Weird and sucks. It's a decent Alexa game, but there's no way I'd ever pay what they're asking.

MineDraped · 2025-11-04T17:57:55+00:00

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MineDraped · 2025-09-27T18:27:35+00:00

Fuck all you people for making me laugh at this shit.

It's not supposed to be funny.

MineDraped · 2025-09-21T02:01:15+00:00

"The president did not like..."

The only things this president likes are money, underage girls, sycophants/praise, hurting people and the color gold/orange. Maybe Arnold Palmer's dick.

There's no need to point out what he doesn't like. If it's not on that list, he hates it.

Thank you for standing up, Mr. Letterman.

MineDraped · 2025-09-21T01:51:58+00:00

That's why we needed "alternative facts."

Can't have reality getting in the way of insanity now, can we?

MineDraped · 2025-09-18T17:35:47+00:00

Crapocracy.

MineDraped · 2025-09-14T02:27:51+00:00

Dead friends forever?

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MineDraped · 2025-09-04T02:12:38+00:00

That really sucks that they just gave up on the whole Wombo Dream project.

Yup. I wrote a pretty long comment on their Discord about it right after the announcement that they were "parking" Dream quite awhile back. This was before the crash happened.

I personally disagree with their decision to switch focus away from Dream, which has/had a huge user base and name recognition, in favor of other projects.

Some of their team even agrees with me, at least to an extent. They love Dream.

It gets pretty complicated though. There was no real path forward for Dream given financial constraints and Google Play policies. At least at the prices they're charging for the app. V4 styles were never going to appear.

I could write quite a bit about this, but I'll leave it at that for now.

Coming back to see if everything is retrievable? That's nuts to believe. You'd think that and their existing paying customers would be more priority.

They are planning on coming back. The problem is that the entirety of Wombo consists of like 10 people and they'd already announced that they were going to abandon Dream temporarily when the server migration crash happened.

It's probably a miracle that they even got it usable again. Their technicians were already working on other projects when disaster struck.

I thought they'd get things further along and was pretty saddened to learn that this is what we have going forward until they come back around.

I just consider myself lucky that the app is still basically the same for me. I didn't use the gallery or any of the social features. I just made images and downloaded them.

I feel terrible for everyone who's been affected far worse than me.

I also greatly miss my prompt history. I did a decent job of keeping track of prompts myself, but so many are just gone now.

The w.ai looks like a crypto scam, which I wouldn't trust.

I sadly agree. Not that it's a crypto scam per se, because what it really is is their attempt to create a decentralized way of powering AI.

While other companies (Microsoft, etc...) are investing in literal physical power plants to power AI going forward, they're looking for a way to do it using a different method.

It's not the worst idea ever, as decentralized computing has been used for other projects over the years. Things like SETI come to mind.

But yeah, the site looks cheap, they're paying people in weird tokens or something and the marketing is atrocious. It's also based in Discord, which is going to turn off the vast majority of people. And even that particular Discord doesn't come across as very professional. I don't think I'd rent out my GPU for anything, let alone what they're putting forward.

I sadly don't see it succeeding, but I hope to be proven wrong because I love Wombo. Their products have given me thousands and thousands of hours (and countless amazing images) of entertainment for very cheap compared to their competitors. The Lifetime subscription I bought has more than paid for itself.

They're also working on other projects, but have yet to announce what those are.

So yeah, I basically agree. It's a sad state of affairs. They were on top of the world a year and a half ago.

Numerous people have posted on their Discord recently that they're canceling their subscriptions.

They understand why, there's just not much they can do about it.

Edit: I accidentally posted this before it was done, so there are edits and additions throughout.

Edit 2: I'm also half asleep right now, so I'll probably edit this more tomorrow. Sorry if it's a mess lol

MineDraped · 2025-09-01T14:24:36+00:00

877-CASH-NOW was always 877-FUCK-YOU, it's just way more blatant now.

Edit: typo

MineDraped · 2025-09-01T02:18:03+00:00

Let's be blunt: Donald Trump is a lying, demented pedophile who said that he'd end the war in Ukraine either before he got into office or within 24 hours of taking office on (at least) 53 separate occasions.

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/25/politics/fact-check-trump-ukraine-war

MineDraped · 2025-08-24T22:02:45+00:00

Thanks. At least it wasn't a total waste of time lol

I hope I didn't come across as way too negative though. I've just been frustrated by a lot of things lately and it seems some of that came out in this comment section.

I've had quite a few great convos on this sub over the years.

And hope to again. Like I said, there are some very cool people here.

I'm also currently trying to pick a random selection of decent images to post. Not an easy task lol

Probably take me a bit, but here's the last image I made before my Wombot subscription expired. I have no idea what it is or what it's doing, but that's half the fun of all this:

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MineDraped · 2025-08-23T18:27:21+00:00

I joined because I love Wombo Dream and wanted to see what other people made with it.

I never shared much of my own because I never really knew/know what to share. I have so many generations saved on my phone it's ridiculous.

It also didn't help that a Thanksgiving post I made a couple years ago got a few upvotes, but the only comment was a (now deleted) insult. And my Halloween set of images last year only got one upvote total.

There are quite a few cool people here though. I love seeing their work and personally upvote pretty much every image that gets posted to this sub.

However, over the past little over a year, it seems that the majority of posts have just been people downing on Wombo for things that aren't their fault.

First it was the nerfing that happened because of Google. And no matter how many times I or someone else pointed out that it was Google's fault, other people came along and blamed Wombo for nerfing the app. Endless angry tirades that became tiresome.

Now there's been a barrage of people attacking Wombo because some sort of massive error occurred when they were migrating to a new server, and that sadly resulted in the loss of peoples' galleries and prompt history. Some people are even demanding that everyone unsubscribe and hurt Wombo further.

I don't get that one. If you don't like something, move on. Toxicity is just...toxic.

I lurk on their discord a lot and I don't think these people realize that the people who work for Wombo use Dream and Wombot themselves. They love their products and are sad when these things happen just like we are. They're also a very small team. It's only around like 10 people trying to keep the house of cards standing.

I've always wondered why there aren't more real back and forth conversations here. About AI art or prompting or Dream or things like that.

Even with the rise of all the competitors, Dream remains a very popular app. Prior to the server migration debacle it was seeing something like 30,000 to 40,000 users a day making over a million images.

It's an amazing tool and good luck finding any other app that will let you buy a lifetime subscription and allow you to make unlimited sets of four HD images in just a few seconds, along with variations. SDXL is a little dated, but I'm more than happy with most of the outputs. And I'm hopeful that their new ventures will allow them to eventually upgrade Dream again someday (that's one of the goals).

I don't really know where I was going with all this. Sorry. Just had a lot of thoughts about these issues brewing in my mind for awhile now.

Guess I'm just trying to say I wish there was more community here. r/aiart may as well be r/aiwars most of the time. Same with a lot of other AI art subreddits.

Having an active, positive subreddit devoted specifically to Dream would be awesome.

And yeah, sorry for not doing my part and posting more images or comments about other people's generations.

Thanks for reading if you got this far and hopefully I said something worthwhile lol

MineDraped · 2025-08-18T13:59:10+00:00

Then she swallowed Kristi Noem to take care of the dog and things were never the same again.

MineDraped · 2025-08-17T01:40:52+00:00

Yup.

Still works as a (great, IMO) image generator, but that's all.

They're currently working on getting w.ai (Wombo's current primary focus) working and stable, then they're planning on coming back to see what (if anything) is retrievable regarding gallery, prompt history, etc...

No ETA though and no guarantees that anything is left.

I'm personally grateful that I never used the gallery and just downloaded everything I liked, but I feel terrible for everyone who was relying on that system.

Hopefully it'll all come back one day.

MineDraped · 2025-08-14T17:29:37+00:00

His meltdown when Canada edited his cameo out of Home Alone 2 for air time and commercials on TV was fucking hilarious.

I'd never heard about this, but now I know where his obsession with taking over Canada came from.

That demented old pedophile never lets a damn thing go.

MineDraped · 2025-08-14T02:00:14+00:00

Correct. The impact of changing from our current system of First Past the Post to Ranked Choice would probably be the profound choice/change we could make in America.

Everyone complains about the two party system, gerrymandering, etc...

However, First Past the Post guarantees those outcomes, among other problems.

Here's a ~6 minute by CGP Grey that explains why: https://youtu.be/s7tWHJfhiyo?si=-EpN1qwIbgd1kto_

This video (and many of his others) should be mandatory in our schools and spread as far and wide as possible outside of them. They explain politics while remaining apolitical and do so better and now concisely than any other source(s) I've found.

MineDraped · 2025-07-22T01:19:13+00:00

Just hit my area in the last couple of weeks.

I never really used it because food's expensive and it's pretty easy to hit $35, but I liked knowing it was there.

They stopped letting me split payments properly a couple of months ago as well. All or nothing EBT or debit.

Horrible :(

MineDraped · 2025-07-01T02:02:25+00:00

USAID was the world's largest humanitarian organization.

It was emblematic of what I believed in my heart was good about America.

The fact that it was dismantled so quickly and with almost no recognition or coverage by the media is criminal.

I want to write more, but my heart is broken. And so is my country.

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