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Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

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Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

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Ideogram 2.0 was also released today, and it's nerfed (anatomy is lot worse than 1.0 now) just like StableDiffusion versions after 1.5 which is very disappointing. Well good thing we have Flux out in the open now, both midjourney releasing web version or ideogram releasing there 2.0 on the same day after 2 weeks of flux won't redeem them as much. Flux Dev is amazing, check what SD community is doing with it on https:…

Are there any publicly accessible Flux image generation services you may recommend to check out?

If you have a suitably powerful M-Mac or iOS device, you can run it locally using "Draw Things", which is free.

Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Why not just make another google account that you solely use for registration in services like these? Use a virtual machine with VPN if you really do not want it to be linked with your real account. It is a bit of extra work but that's just how it is nowadays.

I am pretty sure that if any account I own at Google is caught violating policy, all other accounts are subject to being disabled.

Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

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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.

What was the confusing Discord experience? Was it that Discord was the main way to access Midjourney, and it was chaotic? I vaguely remember this, but didn't spend much time there.

Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are there any publicly accessible Flux image generation services you may recommend to check out?

If you have a suitably powerful M-Mac or iOS device, you can run it locally using "Draw Things", which is free.

Whoa, thanks for the tip!

Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

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It's just astonishing to me how difficult it still seems to be for the Midjourney team to develop a web site that amounts to little more than a textbox, a button, and an img tag. I tried their new web experience, and... it's just broken. It doesn't work. There's a showcase of other people's work, and that's it. I can't click the text-box, it's greyed out. It says "subscribe to start creating", but there's is no "subs…

There's a theory that Midjourney didn't want to pay for image hosting (which they were getting for free from Discord).

Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

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post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Why not just make another google account that you solely use for registration in services like these? Use a virtual machine with VPN if you really do not want it to be linked with your real account. It is a bit of extra work but that's just how it is nowadays.

I think the only way to make a google account without a phone number these days is to factory reset an android phone and take the sim out beforehand.

If that even still works...

Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

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post #42

Ideogram 2.0 was also released today, and it's nerfed (anatomy is lot worse than 1.0 now) just like StableDiffusion versions after 1.5 which is very disappointing. Well good thing we have Flux out in the open now, both midjourney releasing web version or ideogram releasing there 2.0 on the same day after 2 weeks of flux won't redeem them as much. Flux Dev is amazing, check what SD community is doing with it on https:…

Are there any publicly accessible Flux image generation services you may recommend to check out?

Twitter's image generator is the pro version of Flux.

Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

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post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are there any publicly accessible Flux image generation services you may recommend to check out?

If you have a suitably powerful M-Mac or iOS device, you can run it locally using "Draw Things", which is free.

Just to clarify for other readers, Draw Things has support and provides download links to quants but no iOS device can run the full precision model which means you will get slightly different and usually lower quality output than stuff you may see elsewhere, even if you use the same settings. It's still damn impressive though.
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