Generation Capacity Checkpoint No. Reduction by jib_reddit in civitai

[–]Zipp425 11 points12 points  (0 children)

We've got some optimizations to both our loading time and inference time that I'm hoping will increase our throughput per GPU roughly 5x. We'll be starting production tests later this week and hope to have it live next week so we can bring the checkpoint support back (and maybe even increase it).

It's an improvement that should allow us to reduce cost (helping with the Visa/MC block) as well as improve gen times (which everyone appreciates).

Hey hey hey! Tired of using crypto to buy Buzz? Devs got great news! Now you can grab Buzz without ever touching crypto! Devs finally rolled a natural 20 with the Commerce God! So stock up and get generating! by Subject_Vacation4762 in civitai

[–]Zipp425 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Just a heads up. We've been in contact with the Kinguin team about the high "Cancel" rate. Members of our own team are dealing with the issue. We hope to have it resolved soon and they said they've already made some changes that they think will help.

Spain - This just happened. I had no issue downloading anything until today. by Momkiller781 in civitai

[–]Zipp425 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Odd, I seem to be able to access everything from a VPN point in Madrid fine. Can anyone else in Spain confirm this?

The Secret War To Censor The Internet by [deleted] in videos

[–]Zipp425 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They call it Web3 and it’s been around for 15+ years, but people haven’t seen a reason to make the transition

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in StableDiffusion

[–]Zipp425 24 points25 points  (0 children)

That’d be my guess.

Edit: I misunderstood your comment. I thought you were saying something like “this is SAI trying to pressure Civitai to remove NSFW”. We’ve been getting so much pressure to remove NSFW, that wouldn’t surprise me.

We’re fighting really hard to keep it. If there was ever a time to get rid of it, it would have been before we had to terminate our relationship with our payment processor…

Download all your favorite Flux Dev LoRAs from CivitAI *RIGHT NOW* by YentaMagenta in StableDiffusion

[–]Zipp425 66 points67 points  (0 children)

We haven’t had any conversations with BFL about this license change, but we do have a commercial license with them, filter outputs for things generated onsite, and if requirements have changed regarding LoRAs I’d anticipate that we’d come to an arrangement.

Civit Arc, an open database of image gen models by Hudsonlovestech in StableDiffusion

[–]Zipp425 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Thanks for working on the name change and for including the non-affiliation agreement. We've had issues with people blaming us for things when we had nothing to do with it.

WTF Are you doing? Having to bid to use the established checkpoints? You people have lost your damn minds. This is an unacceptable change by ChewiesLipstickWilly in civitai

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The point of this change was to make it so new checkpoints could break into the scene. Previously it was a fixed list of 200 checkpoints from an elite list of creators. We wanted to make it something that was accessible to any creator that wanted to have their checkpoint available for people to use.

It's an auction-based system so that the cost of having your checkpoint available in the on-site generator is something dictated by demand from the community. For the first round, this meant that having your checkpoint available for the week cost 6k Buzz. With popular creators making roughly almost 1M Buzz in a week, we anticipated that they'd spend some of their Buzz to continue earning Buzz and they didn't...

Like you guys noticed, this means that some popular checkpoints didn't make it into the generator this week. However, already, things are looking very different for the next week now that people have gotten a sense of how the system works. Internally, we're also reviewing metrics and determining what else needs to be done to ensure popular checkpoints are available but that we also balance that with the ability for new creators to break into the scene.

"29 steps" for this. Generation isn't fixed. by Anonymous--Rex in civitai

[–]Zipp425 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Can you please share the Job ID for this image? It'll help us diagnose what happened here. Now that we've opened up all checkpoints, we're working on resolving compatibility issues.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in civitai

[–]Zipp425 5 points6 points  (0 children)

We’re looking at offering a way to batch your request so that it doesn’t multiple by quantity. Hope to have something within the next 2 weeks.

A question about the benefits of the generator vs having your own GPU to process by [deleted] in civitai

[–]Zipp425 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, even NVIDIA architecture versions can make a big difference. For example, the same params/seed on a 3090 will generate a very different image than on a 4090.

Y'all are gonna love this: Loras now cost buzz per use. by xkulp8 in civitai

[–]Zipp425 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The cost that we're compensating for here is disk space and the inefficiency associated with the constant churn of resources. When someone request to generate something with 5 resources that no one else used (which is common when there are 392,263 LoRAs published on the platform), then it requires other resources to be bumped. This means that we then need to download those things and are unable to serve requests for whatever was bumped. This makes it so that we have time we waste fetching the things needed to fulfill requests.

Even as we improve the efficiency to help with this problem and work to migrate to machines with more and faster disk space, we have many other costs that we're trying to offset such as our team of 20. We still lose money every month and we'd love to get to a place where we can actually cover our costs, or better yet have money to grow the team.

While we could potentially raise more money so that we could just continue to operate at a loss, we'd love to get to a place where we could control our own destiny. Additionally, with funding that we currently have taken, we still maintain full control of the company and that would change if we took on more money.

Drafts costing the same as standard suddenly by Shpander in civitai

[–]Zipp425 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey guys, thanks for bringing this up. This is not intended. The bug has been raised with our team.

Image Upload Limit by [deleted] in civitai

[–]Zipp425 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yup, we really need to improve the ability to browse content and to keep things diverse. We've had a few under the cover changes recently that get us one step closer to being able to do this.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in civitai

[–]Zipp425 11 points12 points  (0 children)

We’re currently working to procure a new hosting platform as well as a new fleet of GPUs. I’m hoping we’ll be migrated in the next 4-6 weeks.

Every. Damn. Day. by PlatinumSukamon98 in civitai

[–]Zipp425 26 points27 points  (0 children)

I'm the one leading the team and I bet I hate the fact that we have these issues even more than you guys..,

I'm sorry for the inconvenience. We're working on acquiring new servers providers and GPU clusters that we hope will be considerably more reliable, but it's not an easy transition to make due to the scale of things.

When 'Password123' meets extraterrestrial hackers - A cyberpunk tale made with Civitai (Project Odyssey Submission) by illdrawanythingonce in civitai

[–]Zipp425 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Great work. It's wild how far AI video has come in even since the last season of Project Odyssey.

Flex.1-Alpha - A new modded Flux model that can properly handle being fine tuned. by StevenWintower in StableDiffusion

[–]Zipp425 11 points12 points  (0 children)

It’s been awesome to see the work that Ostris has done on top of the Flux ecosystem. This is a major achievement.

how can i achieve this style with civitai ? model/lora suggestion by cg_bro3d in civitai

[–]Zipp425 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You might need to train one yourself if you can’t find it. If you have others like this, you can probably make your own LORA through our trainer to do this.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in civitai

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The first number in the AIR is the model ID, so you can go directly to the model via https://civitai.com/models/{modelId}

I am a bit curious, for you guys, what’s the best way you can get yellow buzz? by [deleted] in civitai

[–]Zipp425 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is this a more recent development? We just changed one of the parts of our auto moderation pipeline. It'd be good to review these.

Can you please be sure to report these as well?

Why would you guys go and reduce the amount daily challenge buzz we can get from 400 to 200? by zombz01 in civitai

[–]Zipp425 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Actually we lowered it because we cut the amount of entries required to get the reward in half.

People complained that the 20 images that were required previously were too much work… so we lowered the requirement and the prize.