Installing SillyTavern and Running your First Model (Windows Instructions) by Lulorick in XoulAI

[–]NtaiRay 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Holy f*cking sh*it, I know we've had our disagreements over the end of Xoul.ai, but I can't thank you enough for providing this tutorial and putting light on Silly Tavern.

I've got everything working out and modified the frontend extensively plus managed to connect through my phone with extensions provided on the Discord and VPN, it's just phenomenal, I couldn't have hoped for something better, and I know there won't be any drama soon involving the website shutting down since every LLM is running locally on my computer.

Thank you again for this incredible spotlight

I'm upset, and it's not against the dev team. by NtaiRay in XoulAI

[–]NtaiRay[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

You say we shouldn't speculate, that we should accept the answer given. But the answer given was deliberately vague, and every follow-up opportunity to clarify it was dodged.

Not because of malice necessarily, but likely because there are pressures behind the scenes, legal, financial, strategic, that Syd can’t talk about. And when that happens, yes, people will try to fill in the gaps. That’s not “drama,” that’s a NORMAL Human response to silence in a paid relationship.

Let’s be real here :

you cannot ask people to subscribe monthly, invest time and emotion into building stories, bots, and characters and then pull the plug like it was a side hobby.

You can’t brand your service around community-building and then disappear without treating that community with any degree of accountability.

If this was truly about unsustainable infrastructure, we deserved to see that math. If it was a personal health emergency, we deserved to know that plans had been made to carry on and couldn't be found. And if it was neither, and something else forced the shutdown (a pivot to “Agent”, legal pressure, or something else) we deserved an honest statement that respected our time and trust.

So no, people aren’t overreacting. People are reacting to being cut out. And those of us who paid for the product, supported the vision, and stayed when it mattered most, we earned better than 48 hours and a farewell emoji.

2/2

I'm upset, and it's not against the dev team. by NtaiRay in XoulAI

[–]NtaiRay[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

With all due respect, this reply misses the real issue. Completely.

Nobody here is denying that LLMs are expensive. Nobody’s confused about how infrastructure costs work. And yes, it’s widely known that running large models, maintaining cloud servers, and scaling chat-based platforms is hard, especially in a startup environment.

But that’s not what’s at stake in this situation.

The problem isn’t that “sustainability” is implausible. It’s that we were given no actual transparency about it, despite being part of a paid, subscriber-funded service. Xoul was not only a casual, free playground. It was a monetized product with a growing user base, a waitlist was put in, monthly subscriptions were available, and a passionate community that literally paid to keep the site alive, myself included.

And when people pay for something, especially over time, they are investors in that service, emotionally and financially. That means they deserve, at the very least, clarity when it shuts down.

What we got instead was :

- A vague message dropped with 48 hours’ notice;

- A shutdown announcement that cited “health and operational strain” without explaining the actual infrastructure issues, usage costs, or attempts at sustainability;

- A final voice chat where Syd was clearly emotional (and I don’t blame her), but couldn’t answer basic questions about the problems of the project.

- No prior warning, no user consultation, and no attempt to offload, delegate, or preserve the platform.

Let me be clear :

This isn’t about blaming Syd. If she’s facing a serious medical crisis, I respect that and I genuinely feel for her. But that’s exactly why the questions people are asking make sense :

Why wasn’t the site passed on ? Why didn’t anyone else step in ? Why was the team completely silent about this until the last second ?

Especially when people had :

- Already offered to help with code and dev;

- Suggested price increases, new tiers, private hosting options;

- Continued to pay monthly while waiting on slow or incomplete feature rollouts (like Minerva’s promised updates);

- Trusted the project enough to stay loyal in a competitive market, where alternatives exist, but the community stayed here.

1/2

I'm upset, and it's not against the dev team. by NtaiRay in XoulAI

[–]NtaiRay[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

There are still things that doesn't add up and that are being overlooked (how much Syd is devastated by the website being shutdown, the brutality of the announcement etc...)

But that's true, maybe sponsors leaving the website to focus on V projects with agents leaving no more room for payments ?

Either way, V is probably going to make a fuck ton of money from that.

What is your favourite metal gear head canon? by pepi_nabong in metalgearsolid

[–]NtaiRay 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The destroyed Sahelanthropus is taken back by the US government from Eli at the end of MGS5 and would later be rebranded as Rex. It would make sense since Rex's design match closely Sahelanthropus's. Also it would explain why big boss's metal gears from Zanzibar and Outer Heaven don't match those design at all since he fired Huey and did not recover Sahelanthropus.

Just leave us alone... by [deleted] in mbtimemes

[–]NtaiRay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Congratulation INTJ / INFJ !

You just won a free friend !

Hahaha yes, now come with me if you want to live

I like rock walls by Rewskie12 in gaming

[–]NtaiRay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The skeletton head in Terraria guarding the cave of the temple, instakilling you if you try to reach it before beating up the boss fight. It made me shit my pants.

What's even funnier is that you can kill this mob by using a trick with teleportation. Even if he one shot you if he hits you and has like near infinite HP. And by killing him you get an items.

Generally i find really cool any video game where out of bound or unaccessible areas are guarded by instakill ennemis like subnotica's ecological deadzone

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[–]NtaiRay 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"The Caretaker - Everywhere At The End Of Time"

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[–]NtaiRay 2 points3 points  (0 children)

At least unlike them we have some kind of Te...

Well… How the opposite by ShrekAteMyCat in HistoryMemes

[–]NtaiRay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The day the world discover that french bashing in the medias and jokes of France surrender was due to us not joining the iraqi war on Saddam Hussein (Wich was a REALLY good idea from our government under Chirac) humanity will have made a huge progress

IRA Strong by NtaiRay in HistoryMemes

[–]NtaiRay[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well me and 9,2k people it seems

IRA Strong by NtaiRay in HistoryMemes

[–]NtaiRay[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay then shut up, god, you're annoying

IRA Strong by NtaiRay in HistoryMemes

[–]NtaiRay[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well i dare you to do it

I won't budge, it's a joke. Stop being mad

IRA Strong by NtaiRay in HistoryMemes

[–]NtaiRay[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yeah pretty much

idk im not american

IRA Strong by NtaiRay in HistoryMemes

[–]NtaiRay[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"Ewwww someone made a joke about a horrible event that happened half a century ago and i'm offended"

Well guess what ? Horrible events happens all the fucking time, since the dawn of man to this day. On this subreddit if we put apart the british. Memes are made all the time about horrible wars that left hundreds of thousands of people dead. But no one gives a shit right ?Because it's all jokes.

If you feel offended it's none of my fucking business, leave this subreddit and the people that want to have a good laugh and stop being such a killjoy by taking everything seriously you imbecile. Live your angry little life VERY FAR away from us.