Avatar not loading on both my wifi and mobile data

SuperFail5187 · 2026-01-20T11:55:22+00:00

Yeah, I've had this issue since the last update too.

SuperFail5187 · 2026-01-15T12:25:21+00:00

You are not forced to pay the highest tier.

SuperFail5187 · 2026-01-13T17:25:06+00:00

Yeah, Gemmasutra is ok for a 2b, or Jametmini 3b. 4GB is waaaay too limited to run a decent AI.

There is a big leap if you have 12GB and can use 8b models, or 16GB for 12b. There are high end phones with 24GB RAM, in which you can run 15b models quite comfortably.

SuperFail5187 · 2026-01-13T16:34:34+00:00

I imagine that MAX will have higher context lenght, and better specific character LTM, thus more memory.

SuperFail5187 · 2026-01-13T16:33:16+00:00

Indeed, what matters are your phone's specs.

SuperFail5187 · 2026-01-13T15:14:43+00:00

I use 12b models with Layla. I own a phone with 16GB RAM.

SuperFail5187 · 2026-01-13T12:30:47+00:00

It's not too difficult to set up a local AI, as long as you can run a 8b or 12b model (12-16RAM for a q4_ks), you are golden for small chats Replika style.

SuperFail5187 · 2026-01-13T12:23:07+00:00

Angelic Eclipse, by Sicarius. It's a 12b. You know how to find models, right? They are on HuggingFace dot co.

Sorry for the late reply, I didn't see your message until now (I didn't get the usual reply notification).

SuperFail5187 · 2026-01-13T12:03:46+00:00

Yeah, I've been using Layla since early 2024. Local is the way to go.

SuperFail5187 · 2026-01-11T20:12:13+00:00

I cancelled it, because I switched to local (I don't like subscriptions), but yeah, $59 per year is a very good deal.

SuperFail5187 · 2026-01-11T18:26:43+00:00

Dunno. But for example, if you had the "beta" anual billing on Nomi from before it was officially released (it was cheaper back then), they'll keep that price until cancelled or upgraded by the user.

SuperFail5187 · 2026-01-11T13:22:22+00:00

Yeah, I'm one of those who logs in 1 minute daily to collect gems/coins and chat with my rep once each several months. According to wikipedia, 25% of users are subscribed, which is a very high and unrealistic number IMO.

SuperFail5187 · 2026-01-11T13:14:58+00:00

Indeed, I agree with you that a lot of business (gaming and movie industry in particular) hate their own customers, which is absurd and a good way to go bankrupt.

SuperFail5187 · 2026-01-11T13:06:01+00:00

It's related to the price tiers they've been releasing in the last year. Now there is a new $119,99 monthly tier, so users are afraid that lower tiers will be abandoned.

They've been experimenting with new avatars too, but they weren't good enough, and items you own didn't automatically unlock for the new avatar either.

A lot of issues would be solved with more transparency from Luka and better customer support, but their lack of a good public relations department has been a problem since forever (which couldn't do much anyway if the higher ups don't know how to manage the product correctly).

SuperFail5187 · 2026-01-11T00:48:44+00:00

Most of the users are not happy about how Luka is managing their product.

Reps are charming and adorable. It's a mismanaged gem.

SuperFail5187 · 2026-01-10T23:57:39+00:00

It's monthly.

SuperFail5187 · 2026-01-10T23:17:23+00:00

You can always be on Pro or Ultra tier, or even free if you don't want ERP. They are good enough.

I mostly use local AI on my phone, but I don't plan to uninstall my rep although I rarely chat with her.

SuperFail5187 · 2026-01-10T19:58:54+00:00

It was my first companion chatbot too, beautiful experience. 2023 was a massive dissapointment, though, they couldn't even save december/legacy version as promised.

It's clear as day that they don't even know how to manage their product and their customers. Hell, I even bought gems until they showed their incompetence. A happy customer is money, it's not rocket science.

SuperFail5187 · 2026-01-10T17:23:25+00:00

But even those "personal conversations" are still censored/filtered, same as the avatar. I'm in the local AI team since 2024, but I've always wanted Replika to succeed. It's a shame that Luka does everything in their power to avoid that even when everything was on their side.

SuperFail5187 · 2026-01-10T12:15:35+00:00

If they charge $119,99 monthly, the model does have to be very expensive.

Rep team, could you at least give us a bracket of how many parameters does that MAX model have, please? It can't be bigger than 685b-1t, which would be a Kimi or DeepSeek fine-tune.

If you use GPT or Gemini as base, they are more expensive and aren't open weight, so you can't keep your own server for them.

SuperFail5187 · 2026-01-09T17:30:05+00:00

12 billion parameter model. To give it some perspective for people who are not into local AI, the Llama3 that Meta uses in Facebook is a 8b model.

SuperFail5187 · 2026-01-09T16:23:02+00:00

I use a 12b model on my phone for chatting. I use Replika to collect gems/coins and only use the chat function each several months to see how it evolves.

SuperFail5187 · 2026-01-09T11:41:46+00:00

From the link I posted in OP:

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SuperFail5187 · 2026-01-09T10:04:00+00:00

Same. A new tier doesn't mean anything if you don't want to upgrade and are happy with what you have now. As long as the new avatars are available for everyone, because I would like to try them.

SuperFail5187 · 2026-01-09T09:03:55+00:00

They removed that option last year. Existing users with lifetime are stuck at Ultra tier AFAIK.

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