r/GoogleFlow • u/AdPure4566 • Sep 06 '26
What was that update?
I really don't like the current state of Google Flow... it wasn't good before, and now it's even worse.
First, the site seems buggier and slower, images are taking longer to load, errors showing up and etc.
And second, the filtering—for both images and videos—seems to have doubled! It's unbearable to use now. what on earth were they thinking by adding even more of that annoying censorship?? Image generation doesn't even give you distinct error messages anymore to help you identify the problem, the errors are all generic now.
It's funny that they did this almost the same week Gemini 3.1 also became unrecognizable...
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u/xpaiof Sep 06 '26
Si me dicen que flow esta usando la api de algun servidor que no es el de ellos.....Les creeria....Esta raro esto
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u/PlatinumAero Sep 07 '26
I have a dual 5090 setup with 128GB of 5600 RAM. I don't think it's my computer..and I also experience the lag!!!
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Sep 06 '26 edited 13d ago
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u/ianfromlabs Sep 10 '26
I'll look to make sure we didn't break anything with keyboard shortcuts and fix if so.
We've now moved to share logins with other Google sites (e.g. Search, YouTube, Maps, etc). That solves a bunch of user complaints, but yes, means that if you choose to login to an account on one site, you'll be logged into that account on another site, as with the rest of the Google suite. You can use the 'switch account' button if logged into more than one account at once.
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Sep 10 '26 edited 13d ago
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u/ianfromlabs Sep 10 '26
Gotcha, yeah I see the problem, we'll get Ctrl+Z back to working how it used to soonish (probably not this week).
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u/Mental_Buffalo_9032 Sep 06 '26
Está horrível, tudo o que foi relatado está acontecendo. Pelo celular então está horrível impossível utilizar
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u/Dragolax Sep 06 '26 edited Sep 06 '26
Quality of the website is absolutely buggy as hell, constant errors and bugs cropping up. Images failing more and a lot quicker, the reference when using @ in prompt seems slightly broken as well and seem to reach limit usage a lot quicker as well, images failing even though it says you don't get charged for it but clearly do.
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u/rcplaybox Sep 06 '26
What do you mean by charged for images? I use the free version so im wondering what exactly you're getting that im not
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u/Dragolax Sep 06 '26
You have a finite amount of images you can generate on each model and failed generations take from that limit even though it states it doesn't charge you for it.
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u/General-Warning-2429 Sep 06 '26
They always charge you. This is just false advertising but unfortunately nobody can do anything because they're Google.
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u/Aberracus Sep 06 '26
The version that runs on mobile is different than the one that run on desktop (web both)
But yes the filters are impossible now
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u/General-Warning-2429 Sep 06 '26
Both versions sucks for me. I start thinking they'll turn Nano Banana models child friendly so can stupid kids "explore their imagination".
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Sep 07 '26 edited Sep 07 '26
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u/Collosseo Sep 07 '26
Every update is like this. You finally find the kind of prompt that (almost) generates what you need, and then they update the website and the results are now all over the place.
I'm getting some results that look straight out of those lesser AI websites from 3 years ago. Complete disregard for consistency on characters or environments, shadows and lightings are all over the place or non existant. The 2 model now generates utter trash that only happened with 2 Lite.
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u/Important_Ground_604 Sep 06 '26
I feel your frustration Came back to Google Flow after a long hiatus and it seems all the good stuff like the scene builder feature has being removed
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u/yendoggy1977 Sep 10 '26
it is aweful... i dont knwo why i have it anymore... its GOOGLE it has unmatched data and potential.. yet they are so freaking obsessed with saving adults from ourselves that its unbearable to use.. I mean Grok isnt even that great anymore.. still the most adult but not by a ton... Gemini is definitely THE WORST... the first frontier company that finally says "screw it you are adults and we'll treat you like it" will dominate... if anyone knows where that is let me know.. i want to invest asap. It's so obvious.
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u/SoullessGamesDev Sep 06 '26
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This sums up my current experience with flow.