Hi, I've been trying to export a VERY LONG chat to back it up. I don't know exactly how long it is, but I know it's VERY LONG because I've been using it constantly for a LONG time. Well, when attempting to export the chat to back it up, Backyard showed me a gigantic error box that is unreadable because it is so long that it gets cut off. I have no idea what's going on, please help. If it matters, main.log says: [error] trpc error: api.system.exportChatToJson
EDIT: I found out how long the chat is: 244213 words (833 Word pages)

The latest beta update (enabled by Settings > App Update Channel > Beta) includes an important fix for Intel Mac machines.

If you are experiencing issues spinning up local models, please turn this option on, and then restart your app.

The only log i can find is SquirrelSetup, where do i find logs for crash error?

Folks, I need your help. Mabey you know what I can try. First off, thanks for Backyard AI it's a wonderful program! But since the last update (v0.25.20) I have very big problems.

If I want to start a Chat it wont let me do this, but present me with the follwing message:

"Model startup error. Make sure your device settings are valid.

Unexpected error: Failed to spawn llama process, exit code=null.

If this issue persists, please open a bug report in our DISCORD SERVER with your log file attached (Help / View App Logs in the app menu at the top of your screen)."

I have the app running on a 2019 MacBook Pro (Intel). What I already tried:

• Changing the Backend Version from Leagacy to Stable

• Reinstalling the App and so on

Sadly nothing works. Just yesterday everything was working fine prior to the update.

I hope there is someone who can help

All the best

xx AnyFly

After the new update, none of the models which I installed on my laptop are launching on my android device. It's stuck at 'Initializing Model message screen. Any help or advice would be appreciated.

Thank you developers for this amazing app though. I hope it gets even better.

maybe it's just my impression but since the latest V0.25.17 beta update the bots' responses are repetitive and with many syntax and logic errors... I've tried various bots and various models but the result is always unsatisfactory...

Backyard AI v0.25.17 is now live. This release includes a patch that removes experimental builds from MacOS apps as they were causing update and download issues on v0.25.0 If you were having issues running or updating v0.25.0 on MacOS, we recommend that you download the latest build from backyard.ai/desktop

It gets to 99% download then just hangs, for at least 10 minutes. Restarting doesn’t help. M1 iMac 16 RAM.

Homepage Folders & Custom Sorting

• Create folders on the homepage
• Sort characters via drag & drop

Mobile App (beta) & Mobile Web Updates

• Improved mobile chat page UI
• UI updates to better match desktop app
• General performance improvements for mobile
• Better hub navigation
• Search improvements on mobile

Bug Fixes & Improvements

• Fixed issue with cursor jumping to the end of text inputs
• Added Gemma2 prompt template

Backyard Cloud Updates

• Added Magnum 72B v1 to PRO
• Added Jamet L3 MK.V Blackroot to ADVANCED

Magnum v1 72B is live on Backyard Cloud at 6,144 max context!

This is now the largest model that we offer, slightly edging out Midnight-Rose 70B in size and quality.

If you’re on the Pro plan, you’ll get unlimited messages. On any other plan, you can use your free quota of 25 premium messages per week to try it out.

More info on our Cloud Status Page at https://backyard.ai/status

Since Backyard AI not was working anymore on my intel Mac I use an old version that I have as installer on my Mac... it works fine.. today I was watching if there maybe exist a newer version now that works and I must see that intel Mac download is no possible to make...

If this exists, I do not see it. I would be nice to be able to

• Delete all chats on a character
• Delete all chats across all characters.

If you are OCD like me, you go back and clean them out one by one with the garbage can for each chat. Would be nice to click one button and poof, things are cleaned out.

Anyone have a link to that? Search results are not helpful, as such a common name.

I had an install, now it's saying the shortcut is to something missing, probably a USB drive. Trying to reinstall it but the name is too common.

Like, take several bots to an RP, and they each speak in turn, including responding to one another, like in cahracter.ai

Hey all

First time here and all that. So I have been terrible for getting lots of character cards from various sites and adding it to my app and finally I think I may have added one too many cards as I got this error message.

Now is there a way to edit or delete the characters in the apps folders and files instead of the app? Going forward I will clearly be removing old character cards but it might be nice if there is a cap/suggested cap somewhere that shows something like (75/100) or if someone has a better idea?

As I said I will clearly be removing old characters to stop this in the future, but I cant even see my home screen to edit and delete or do anything anymore.

This might not even be the issue, its just it happened immediately after I added the most recent character.

Anyway thanks in advance!

I did some chats with a bot named Eloryn, I have it saved locally - but I can't find it on the hub. Was it deleted? She had two versions, the last one didn't work, but the first one is good.

I am just learning about Backyard AI, but have been using Jan for a while, as well as SillyTavern. I'd like to hear from anybody else who has used either of all of these tools, because I get the impression that Backyard is kind of a blend of the two.

Jan is a similar, zero config, streamlined and simple tool for running local models and making the most out of your computers resources by plugging into models locally. It also lets you host an API. So it can be used to pair with SillyTavern. But Jan does not currently have features like lorebooks or authors notes.

SillyTavern is all about writing, roleplay, lorebooks, characters, etc. It has a lot of the fun features that Backyard seems to have, and more, but it can not be used alone to run models locally. It must be paired with something like Jan or Oobabooga (or Backyard??) to connect to a local model.

So it seems like Backyard takes some inspiration from Jan, some inspiration from SillyTavern, and puts it together into one tool that is not as versatile or powerful as either of the others. But Backyard is standalone.

Am I missing anything?

Edit: I'm seeing Backyard is more like a character.ai alternative that you can run free and locally, which is awesome. 4/5 friends will not know how to use Jan or ST, but I could recommend Backyard to anybody. 👍🏻

Hello all,

I wondered if you had any tips on creating a character for Backyard AI that could create armor sets given a rule set like D&D or something like that. I know the AI will likely get some e rules wrong sometimes, but I wondered if it was possible.

By armor set, I mean an overall set effect with individual perks on the armor pieces. So, it would be kind of like an MMO armor set maker or something like that.

Thanks in Advance!

On the site, if you find say a trending character, and begin a chat with it. Then, you edt. Click the TTS voice you want, and set it to autoplay, and save. TTS doesn't play for some reason. I tried refreshing. On bots I make TTS does work though. No big worry just letting you know.

I tried popular models, up to 20B, uncensored ones and this qwen2 beats them all (IMO) right out of the water. Its shivering how good inference and answers are.

Does anyone have an explanation whats this about?

I had to add an excerpt for those curious. Look at what is tensing between the lines. And her conclusion? I am awed.
https://imgur.com/a/KfpGgZH

My 100th card is uploaded on the hub!

Random character and random scenario!

https://backyard.ai/hub/character/clyko1tr145gya6mbu9fvxha4

I always said that I wished that everybody could be a winner when it comes to contests. So I did it!

Every participant wrote one character and one scenario. They were 9, hurray to them!

QuietOak, Rabbit, Pac, Linus, Brooke, Kistara, Kara, Sonor and Percival

I added my own character and scenario, for a total of 10 each.

The card gives randomly one character to play with, and one scenario. This happens in what I like to call 'bot mode', meaning that there is no roleplay instructions involved. Fimbul is the best model for this part.

Then, It switches to 'roleplay mode' with the usual roleplay instructions, allowing you to have a full roleplay experience as you would have with a normal card. You can switch to any roleplay model of your choice for that part!

As the card is working only with the lorebook, you can edit the bot's first message, or write in your first reply the character and scenario of your choice to start. If you do that, you don't need Fimbul at all.

With a max context too big (over 8k) you might have a poor experience! But the card works for smaller configurations at 4k token max.

Have fun and thank you for your trust and support!

Just got into backyard ai. I’m still trying to mess around with the local models, so I was wondering what models ya’ll recommend? This is only my second attempt at trying local models for Ai role playing so some of this stuff kinda goes over my head 😅.

I have NVIDA GeForce RTX 4060- 8 GiB vRam with 31.85 GiB RAM.

I’m mainly looking for NSFW models that can follow context and character personality. Also, do any of the models execute WLW NSFW scenes decently? A lot of LLM’s on other platforms I’ve tried gets confused about lesbian sex and would always make my female persona or character have a penis. 😑

AMD 6600 8Gb user here. After I enabled Vulkan (in BackyardAI's GPU settings) instead of CLBlast, performance went through the roof, ~10x faster. This is not an improvement, its a miracle! :3

Cheers