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Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

#21

This is a interesting company to watch in the Gen AI space since they don't have all the same restrictions as the bigger companies. Crazy this took them so long, and also crazy that they got so far through a very confusing Discord experience.

Using discord is a great way to focus on what's important and get not great, but good enough ux and community tools basically for free.

Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

#22
post #4

Looks like I still need a discord or a google account and can't just use regular email?

While I understand that they might need some account or token to stop abuse, just having my sign in is a big no for anything I just want to try out. After the whole social media trend more or less collapsed into a privacy invading data collection nightmare, I've been extremely reluctant to sign up for anything.

You honestly think giving full, no rate limited free access is viable in the LLM space, where each execution is actually pretty expensive?

Because that's what you're asking for, as it'd be trivial to reset the rate without accounts.

Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

#23

Haven't used Midjourney since Flux dropped

where can we try/use? Is it just the obvious google result of https://getimg.ai/models/flux ?

Their Github repo provides some links if you want to try it online: https://github.com/black-forest-labs/flux

Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

#24
post #6

What the really need is user management, so big corps can adopt it. Currently with the user self-service it‘s a no-go.

For a company workshop I wanted to pay for Midjourney to invite a bot into a private Discord with the workshop participants. We couldn't find a way of using it as a company account, and ultimately every participant had to get a sub, which was less than ideal. If it was today I would have them use Flux in some hosted version.

Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

#27

Haven't used Midjourney since Flux dropped

where can we try/use? Is it just the obvious google result of https://getimg.ai/models/flux ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYVucud3ptc has good coverage of running locally and via web (https://fal.ai/models)

Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

#28
post #19
post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, unfortunately. That’s a no-go for me.

I feel like this is an old man yells at cloud moment but I refuse to link social media or google accounts with other services. Why should Google's or Discord's policy dictate my participation in the web?

So google will rank them higher in search results?
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