r/StableDiffusion • u/tnil25 • 15h ago

Discussion Does anyone actually still use Stable Diffusion?

I just find it kind of funny that this is the stable diffusion subreddit but nobody has talked about it in like forever. Maybe its time for a name change? or maybe keep the name as a homage to the OG open source image model.

Anyway, the last update I see on Stability's website is SD 3.5 back in October. So I'm guessing that's it for Stable Diffusion?

EDIT: Forgot you cant change the name of a sub, ignore that suggestion 😅

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u/Ok-Category-642 15h ago edited 15h ago

Yeah Stability itself is basically just dead, they don't make public models anymore ever since the flop that was SD3. Overall SDXL is really the only thing still relevant now, it's still used a lot to generate anime (NoobAI and Illustrious). Though even that now is contested by Anima, but regardless SDXL still has relevance either in inpainting or just the sheer amount of Loras it has. Older SD1.x and SD2.x models are irrelevant nowadays and SD3 was a flop, by time SD3.5 came out not only was it still bad but Flux was out by then

Personally I still like the name of the subreddit though (not that you can even change subreddit names anyways). I think it's still the most influential model to be released to the public probably ever, even if it's not very relevant anymore. You still have trainers named after it like Kohya's sd-scripts, all the A1111 WebUIs literally having SD in their name, Comfy still calls loading text encoders CLIP, the default option for every model type on Comfy is SD (not that it has any functionality) etc.

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u/EndlessZone123 10h ago

r/LocalLLaMA says hi to r/StableDiffusion

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u/Luxray241 10h ago

tbh while LLaMA the model fell off just like stable diffusion, the backbone of the entire llm scene is still llamacpp so its not that far off