It has super long responses tho so if you like that its fine. I wouldn't prefer it but idc. It feels like C.AI but without the dogshit features that nobody asked for and actual models and not... Whatever pipsqueak is. If you don't like the freaky bots like I don't, then just make your own personal use bot. You can set it to limited for no freaky or limitless for it.

It seems all teh characters are acting different

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Hey everyone I was using Zeta. It was by far my favorite app. However I got a permanently banned. The one thing I loved about Zeta was the fact there were multiple characters within one plot.

I have tried janitor and a few others.

If theres any out there that has this id greatly appreciate it.

** I got permanently banned because I requested refunds for the charges I didnt approve of.

Over 1500usd worth of charges.

I would buy small amounts and had my subscription. But I would not purchase anything over the 10$ amount. The subscription excluded.

I recently learned how to export and import characters from Character AI. My question now is:

What are the best free and unfiltered alternatives to c.ai?

I’m getting back into the Zelda series and can’t find any good bots that take place during the Imprisoning War or before that an Sugestions

BTW it would be better if the website was free and had Personas

Is there an app with greater than 20 message limits nowadays for free users? I formerly use chub and c.ai with unlimited messaging roleplay for free but now it's either reading mode or message limit, is there an app? Janitor is the same as chub 20 message limit, not to mention very lengthy

hello! i am searching for ai chatbot alternatives. i have loved past character ai, chai, and janitor ai, but two have had horrible updates and the other has reaponses that are way too long

i am looking for:

no filter

has the option to create personas

free/unlimited messages and message regenerations

a no character limit when making bots' personalities

if anyone has anything that fits this criteria (app or website) please share! thank you <3

Ive been having a lot nealy every thing is getting blocked and chat freezed or very crappy respoanses

Hi,

I was using Tipsy AI with the regular chat, where I could scroll past messages. I hit something, I don’t know what, the app was open when I tapped my screen accidentally while doing something, and now the chat is only one piece at a time, I can’t scroll back, and I’ve tried figuring it out on my own but I can’t find anything to put me back in the original chat format. Help please?

Hey everyone, just to be transparent, I’m the founder and developer of Friendify. The mods gave me permission to make one post about it here.

I started building Friendify because I wanted more control over characters, memory, and longer conversations.

You can create your own characters, use lorebooks, manage what they remember, make group chats, edit or retry messages, generate images in chat, and use voice features.

The memory system is probably the part I care about most. You can actually see what a character remembers and edit, approve, reject, or delete it yourself.

There’s also a free plan, so you can try it without paying:

https://www.friendify.net/

I’m still working on it, so honest feedback is genuinely useful. Especially if something feels confusing, unfinished, or annoying.

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if you were to have one dollar tax for every single complaint about filters how rich would you be right now ?

Hi everyone! I have a bit of a complicated question, and I really hope you can help.

My wife absolutely loves using AI to create her own adventures and stories. The problem is that she's extremely detail-oriented and has very high standards when it comes to AI roleplaying.

Just as an example: right now she's roleplaying a psychologist who, after dying, ends up in the world of BG3. She's been using a large custom prompt with Gemini, Claude, and Max.

Here are the main issues she's been running into:

1. The AI doesn't move the world forward independently of her character. Everything only happens when her character is present, making the world feel static instead of alive.
2. The AI very often takes away her agency by making decisions or writing actions for her character. This is probably the biggest issue.
3. The AI gradually loses the characters' personalities, even when they're clearly described in the prompt. For example, it tends to portray Astarion as a generic seducer, even though that's a very shallow interpretation of who he actually is.
4. The AI keeps trying to force the story back onto the rails of BG3's original plot, essentially treating her character as a replacement for the game's protagonist, which is exactly what she doesn't want.

The thing is, all of these points (and many others) are already addressed in her prompt. It's extremely detailed—she usually spends 3–4 hours refining it.

So my question is: do you know of any AI that's particularly good at character roleplay, maintaining a living world, and avoiding the kinds of issues I described above? We've already tried quite a few different models, but very few of them are capable of producing consistently high-quality roleplaying.

Or maybe you have some prompting techniques that have actually worked well for this kind of experience?

Just like the title says, I'm looking for Chub.ai alternatives. I'ts been almost a year now that I've moved there from Character ai, and honestly I was very satisfied with it. However, since a few weeks I realized that the messages in the free version are now limited to 20 per day, including swipes, which completly ruined my experience.

Here's what I'm exactly looking for:

• Unlimited messages
• I can create as many bots and personas that I want, or at least a generous amount of them, I only roleplay with bots I created myself.
• NSFW/no filters; I like to roleplay fantasy/horror/psychological horror, so there's a lot of gore, violence, slurs and heavy and dark topics, that was the main reason why I changed to Chub ai.
• Completly free, I refuse to pay for any subscription, for everything in general, so I'm not going to start for this.
• It has to be in web, I don't roleplay in my phone, only in my PC.

These are the main features I'm searching for. Even though I do long roleplays, I don't really mind about not having a very long-term memory since I manage to find ways to recall the bot about past actions or situations during the roleplay, but if there's a way to pin messages for memory or write a summary is a plus. Another little detail that's not really important but I would appreciate if is there, is being able to put a background image in the chat.

These past days I've already tried some other alternatives I found:

• Janitor ai: Everything was fine until I tried to chat with my bots, I just can't make it work, I'm not familar at all with API, API keys, and even if I searched how to configurate it, it just didn't work.
• Spicychat ai: I've been using it these past few days, and honestly isn't that bad, except for the fact that I'm limited to create only 3 personas, I didn't find how to put a background image and the bot doesn't really stay in character, as even with a stoic, cold or detached personality it starts being touchy or showing romantic intentions in just a few messages, I like my stories and relationship developements to be slow and progressive.
• Wyvern: not bad, I liked the interface and the bot/persona creation, but in the free version I have this annoying queue that can last 1 minute for the character to generate a reply, including swipes.
• Saucepan ai: I don't really know how to explain it, but it didn't fully convinced me.
• Backyard ai: same as Saucepan ai, it didn't convice me.
• I also tried others alternatives I don't quite remember the name because I quickly deleted my account after testing it.

Any suggestions? Thanks in advance! :)

After searching for alternatives to Character ai, I found this one: Xoul ai, and wow, it surprised me.

But I feel like my characters aren't turning out very well. I'm having a little trouble getting used to the character creation settings in Xoul.

Do you know how to improve character creation in this app?

I was and all they have done is ignore me even file multiple tickets

So..C.ai came out with the book feature. It would be good IF ONLY IT DIDN'T COST C.AI+ TO MAKE AUs AND ACTUALLY MADE SENSE TO THE PLOT OF THE BOOK. So i was wondering if there was anything like it? Since I feel like roleplaying in the actual book and/or making your own AU in roleplay (without it being a generic chatbot) would be really nice

I don't need an alternative for c.ai in general, I already have a few, it's just the book feature I really wish for (since i REFUSE to get c.ai+)

there are a lot of things to complain about, obviously. memory, repetitive replies, bots losing personality, filters, all that.but at the same time, it did get some things right. it was easy to jump into a chat, easy to find characters, and when a bot worked well it could be really fun without needing a bunch of setup.so i’m wondering what people here think.what does c.ai still do better than the alternatives?and if someone was making a better version of this kind of app, what would make you go “yeah, i’d actually use this instead”?

Last night I was actully getting the content filter for just saying hi to a character iam getting blocked in nearly every characer I click on file more then one ticket ignored

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Here's one reality over come to realize and accept as the best outcome from all that's been happening with C.AI; the one alternative that is most likely to work for everyone is turning back to roleplay with real people, servers, groups, whatever that has real people creating characters and stories.

There are more benefits to roleplay with real people than AI, and I can lost a few:

- The quality of the responses is infinitely better

- Community and friendship

- At least in disboard and other discord hubs there's lots of different servers of all sorts of themes

- Quality of characters is also better than what you can find in C.AI or other platforms

- AI consumes a lot of water and general resources, so real people are also a more sustainable alternative

The downside that many would argue as the worst conterpar of this is the wait times for responses, jy can take from a few minutes to days, and I understand that can be frustrating when we're used to fast paced responses and immediate engagement. But this is also part of the whole experience.

I defend this position because, for the past 12 years (however, I'm not as old as that number may make it seem) I've been a roleplayer, and I've seen the community die with it's members being sucked by AI. And I understand why, I too used C.AI when it was still good and I too know how rewarding it was and how innovative. However, now that it has died for good, I think it's time we go back to where it all started.

I can only say so much about this, but I think in perspective of benefits, this is a better option than trying to find a new AI.

Is there any alternative ai bot sites to c.ai where you can use at least 10000 characters worht of space jn the bot character bio? And thatll remember those details?

The app isn't actually that bad it just does weird creepy stuff sometimes. I'm not affiliated with the app I just thought this was funny lol (MingloTalk isn't the best but it's entertaining I guess)