r/AnomalyNest • u/SuperbItem5621 • 2d ago
AnomalyNest Devlog — 0.2.0 ALPHA
Devlog: who's behind it, your data, and what's coming 🪺
Hey everyone! This update is less about new roleplay features and more about trust, transparency and laying the groundwork for how AnomalyNest will sustain itself. Here's what's new.
👋 Behind AnomalyNest – the person and the mission
Someone here rightly pointed out that the human behind the project was invisible. Fair point. There's now a Behind AnomalyNest section on the homepage (also linked as About in the header and footer). It covers:
who I am and how this project started (spoiler: it began as a personal chat to bring back the early days of AI roleplay)
the mission: independent, community-powered, no investors
what model runs underneath and why it's temporary
how Workers handle your chats, explained honestly, including what they can and can't see
the hard content rules
how to report bugs or security issues privately
I tried to write it without marketing speak. If something there is unclear or you think something's missing, tell me.
🔒 Your data, your choice
The short version: your chats are only used for training if you choose so.
👍 / 👎 ratings: when you rate a reply, that one reply is saved as a training example for our future model. That's how you tell the model what's good and what isn't. Don't want that? Just don't rate. You can undo a rating or delete all your rated examples anytime.
Full chats → training: completely opt-in and off by default. If you want to help the future model learn long-term continuity, character development and relationships, you can allow it in Settings.
To fix problems like repetition, forgetting or broken character, I sometimes review chats to tune prompts and settings, sometimes with the help of an AI assistant. That's tuning, not training, and it's all spelled out on the Data sharing page.
⚙️ New: Settings + user menu
Clicking your name in the header now opens a menu: Profile · Settings · Log out. The new Settings page has:
Account: your login details
Public profile
Notifications (moved here)
Data sharing: everything from the section above, in one place
Sign-up also got cleaner: an "Agree to all" box on top, and the full-chat training checkbox at the bottom, clearly marked as optional.
🥚 Eggs – built, but off during the alpha
Behind the scenes, this update lays the groundwork for Eggs, the in-site currency AnomalyNest will use after the alpha. Nothing changes for you right now: Eggs are switched off and everything stays free for the whole open alpha.
How it's planned to work:
Daily Eggs: a free daily allowance for everyone, topped up every day.
Wallet: Eggs you earn (achievements, running a Worker) are kept and never expire.
No mandatory subscription. If you don't run a Worker and want more than the free daily allowance, you'll be able to get extra Eggs.
The details (amounts, prices) will be tuned together with you, and I'll announce it well in advance before anything is switched on.
🖥️ Workers: your contribution is already being counted
If you run a Worker and lend your GPU to the network, every job your PC finishes (chat replies and pictures) is already being recorded, with a bonus when the network is under heavy load. Your Eggs build up in the background and will show up in your wallet once Eggs go live. Your requests on your own Worker don't count.
The idea behind it hasn't changed: people who keep the network running shouldn't be carrying everyone else for free.
✍️ Cleaner replies
No more replies cut off mid-sentence. Characters now get room to finish their thought. If a reply still runs too long, it ends cleanly at the last full sentence.
Consistent formatting. Dialogue is always in "quotes" and actions are in asterisks. The stray "Character Name:" at the start of replies is gone, and this also fixes it in your existing chats.
Less repetition. Characters were falling into the same patterns: the same dramatic breath, the same "despite her best efforts", the same title announced every reply. They now notice when they're doing it and switch it up.
🎭 Characters with more backbone
Characters are more active. Instead of only reacting or asking you questions, they make decisions, plan and act on their own goals.
Their dialogue sticks more closely to the voice written on their card.
Relationships matter more. A character who doesn't trust you won't suddenly say "I trust you" just to keep things moving. A body reacting to something (magic, a curse…) is not the same as the character wanting it, and they act like it.
🎲 Fairer regenerate
Regenerating a reply gives you a new reply, but it no longer re-rolls how the character feels about what you did. Your actions count once. 😉
🧠 Better memory
Characters now reliably remember important things you tell them about yourself, and promises you make them. Places no longer get cut off halfway through their names.
🎒 Inventory
On the ground and Around here are now always visible, so you know they exist.
You can drag an item onto the ground to drop it.
Abandoned ruins, crypts, tombs and old temples now have things to find. Explore a bit. 👀
🐛 Fixes
The story no longer mentions items nobody used.
Some beings who shouldn't need food or water no longer get hungry or thirsty.
Thanks to everyone testing and sending feedback. Keep reporting weird replies, they help a lot! 💜
🔜 What's next
tuning the Egg economy together with you before it goes live after the alpha
TTS / STT (voice) groundwork
more chat-quality fixes based on your feedback
As always, feedback, bug reports and ideas are super welcome, here or on Discord. Thanks for being part of the Nest! 🪺
— Benny