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Re: AI generated, command whatever you want. It will generate mind-blowing images

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The output is quite cool, but why on earth have they locked interaction with it away in discord instead of having it available in the web? It basically guarantees that most people won't know about it, won't interact with it, and won't be able to view the results. It's just a deeply weird design decision.

They’re only just coming out of a restricted beta, so having it available to everyone is the opposite of what they were going for , so far.

I also read an interview with the CEO where he said they noticed that mostly people don’t know what to ask it to create, so they just input boring prompts (“a dog”) and, I’m guessing, walked away soon after. But together, seeing what others do, they went much further with it.

Re: AI generated, command whatever you want. It will generate mind-blowing images

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Fair enough, I guess there's value to the social feedback you get in discord and being able to easily see what others have input.

There isn't really, the majority of people in the channels are newcomers, it scrolls too fast for you to really see much, and once you subscribe you move to private and only see your own messages anyway. I have no idea why they went to Discord, it hasn't provided any benefit to me personally, at least.

True enough. I totally agree with you. without Discord if it will be normal web portal it will be very nice.

Re: AI generated, command whatever you want. It will generate mind-blowing images

#34

Couldn't use the site, the animation blocked everything :/

You need to connect discord to make it happent

> You need to connect discord to make it happen

Can you add a telegram option?

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I used to think that way too, but putting it on a social platform has a lot of benefits. New users who don’t know how to write prompts can learn from others and discover new artistic styles and concepts. It brought me up to speed much faster than DALL-E’s web based interface.

Probably has a split effect. I saw no way to interact without discord, close tab.

I know how to interact with discord, however I read the FAQ channel and it didn't answer the question "where do I type a prompt" or "how do I make it generate an image", so also closed tab

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You need to connect discord to make it happent

> You need to connect discord to make it happen Can you add a telegram option?

Its not possible in telegram, only works in discord. BTW I am not owner ..

Re: AI generated, command whatever you want. It will generate mind-blowing images

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I’ve been playing with tech like this in various Discord servers for over a year now and I’m still fascinated every day. Knowing how incredible it is and then hearing people say “Sure. But, Discord. Ew.” is a shaking-my-head moment. The Discord interface is far from ideal. But, it has had a very high ROI for the small, low budget team behind Midjourney.

I don't know why. I use the Discord server and don't like it, my messages get lost in the scrollspam and it's just a bad experience. Surely, a text field on the site would have been equally good.

you don't get to see other's images and talk with them in a shared chat channel with that approach (unless they build out a lot more web app). Which is half the fun of it. (Not that hard to build, but more work than a Discord bot.)
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