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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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Post by rurp »

mark242 wrote: post #34
kxrm wrote: 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?

Because the alternative is pretty provably worse for you, and for them. * You have to save your (hopefully unique!) email/password in a password manager which is effectively contradictory to your "I won't use a cloud service" argument. * The company needs to build out a whole email/password authentication flow, including forgetting your password, resetting your password, hints, rate limiting, etc etc, all things that…

You make it sound untenable to support email/password auth, but given that the vast majority of low tech and high tech online services manage it just fine, I think you might be exaggerating a bit. Since Midjourney is already outsourcing their auth flow, they could just as easily use a third party that supports the most common form of account creation.

Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

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Post by GaggiX »

wmf wrote: post #76
jiggawatts wrote: post #62

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).

Images has been available on their website for quite some time.

Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

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Post by jiggawatts »

wmf wrote: post #76
jiggawatts wrote: post #62

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).

That has got to be a rounding error in their finances in comparison to the GPU time required to generate the images in the first place.

Re: Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone

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Post by marssaxman »

mark242 wrote: post #34
kxrm wrote: 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?

Because the alternative is pretty provably worse for you, and for them. * You have to save your (hopefully unique!) email/password in a password manager which is effectively contradictory to your "I won't use a cloud service" argument. * The company needs to build out a whole email/password authentication flow, including forgetting your password, resetting your password, hints, rate limiting, etc etc, all things that…

All of what you say may well be true, and yet: everyone else on the internet manages to make it work.

Password managers don't have to be cloud services. The user gets to choose.

Some of us like to use a different email address for each account on purpose.

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