Archiving: Shep’s January 16, 2026 AMA
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AMA: shep - janitor - updates, answers, and whats next r/JanitorAI_Official - AMA: shep - janitor - updates, answers, and whats next there have been a lot of questions lately around stability, updates, and where janitor is headed.
this AMA is a chance to lay everything out with whats changed recently, what is actively being worked on, and what is coming next. i will share context, walk through decisions made, and answer questions directly.
ask whatever you want. i will be straight about where things are at and plans for the future. AMA Finished · 2 days ago
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- What is the state of verification. I am aware it’s been down for a year (or two), but creators are still getting verified because you like the bot. This month alone several people made posts in the server mentioning you gave verification to other creators. Again. After the whole discussion about communication and the call outs just a few months ago. How does this not fall into lines of favoritism when creators have to impress the devs? And if its not favoritism, then what would you call it?
- Why do you struggle with making important announcements before implementing changes? For example, the suicide law changes. It’s very known that the community is overreactive and volatile (not defending nor talking down on the community). I am trying to understand your perspective as someone who owns this site. A heads up 2-3 days before implementing changes would’ve saved the outrage and frustration, especially when users were attacking mods. This happens a lot, and I am struggling to believe whether or not you like the community in shambles over your lack of communication.
- There’s mentions in the discord that there’s an alpha site where you test changes before implementing them into the beta site. Is there a reason why you don’t use the alpha site anymore? While yes, this is the beta site and we are the testers, wouldn’t it be more logical to have a group of testers to test on the alpha site before you implement the changes?
- Do you discuss changes and development with your mods? Many times on Reddit and the server alone mods mention they have no idea about the changes you made. While I understand mods are modding for the server and/or Reddit, wouldn’t it be wiser to update mods on anything you’re working on behind the scene so they are aware on how to address questions and situations? It starts to feel like your mods are your personal punching bags because users aren't able to direct their frustrations at you unless you're in the threads/forums.
- Edit to add: I am not 100% if this is factual as I seen this talked about in another server, but if you blocked the ability for users to comment in your discord server for having another competitor site's tag, why is that? I can understand having the rule to not directly mention any site that's not Janitor, but to block and prevent your users to interact with your server because of a tag that isn't yours seems silly. Please correct me if this isn't factual.
Thank you.
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5 more replies dawnmountain • 2d ago Unmotivated Bot Creator 🛌💤 Sometimes when there's problems with the site, you or a mod/dev will explain the situation on a random thread or channel on the Discord instead of the announcements channel. Why do you do this? Would it not be easier to put it in announcements so we can all see it? I rarely use the Discord unless it's to check announcements.
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4 more replies Traditional-Duty-348 • 2d ago • Edited 2d ago There has been a post made by a former moderator of the platform, who exposes a lot of flaws and issues about how bad handled is the moderation, is it possible to have answers and to make sure that moderations isn't hell for the moderators ?
https://janitorai.com/characters/18ea0d4a-6f22-4850-9647-cefc6c447f16_character-loved-you-all-3
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u/Pretend_Elephant_946 avatar Pretend_Elephant_946 • 2d ago This deserves its own separate post to spread awareness
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1 more reply OkPaleontologist6841 • 2d ago I need this answered because what the actual fuck. Poor mods.
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u/Aromatic-Light8642 avatar Aromatic-Light8642 • 2d ago A TON of creators are already leaving/moving stuff over as we speak. If he doesn’t come with actual evidence and shows actual change in this moment and daily over the next while, it’s done.
Most users don’t give a shit but most of the creators are aware and very much do care.
Wondering what IO’s input is gonna be on all this, their always the biggest defender
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dandelionii • 2d ago iorveths 🐺 post-apocalyptic enthusiast Not that I expect people to track my posts across platforms/subs (though you clearly seem invested in my opinion) but I haven’t been “Janitor’s Biggest Defender” for some time (nevermind that I’m barely active on site or in the discord…) and I’m the first person who will suggest that everyone - creator or user - should consider going local as investing in a platform that cannot be relied upon to be fair or impartial is a fool’s errand.
I’d also just like to say that one of the biggest issues I’ve ‘defended’ is the fact that users are frequently toxic and abusive towards volunteer mods, who have never had any say in dev decisions or site updates…which the link you’re replying to does cover extensively 🙃
Thinking that this community is often times immature, entitled and reactionary (and/or having my own opinions, positive or negative, about updates) =/= defending Janitor. I’m plenty critical of the platform (and its development), but that doesn’t mean I’m not also going to be critical of the userbase.
I think the moderation situation is incredibly upsetting and my heart hurts for all the people, mods, creators and users, who have gotten fucked over by poor management, poor communication and impulse-based decision making. I think anyone defending it now would be closing their eyes to persistent issues that have existed in the site from the beginning. I have in the past, yeah, been optimistic about JanitorAI changing for the better, but I struggle to believe in anything that isn’t direct action at this point.
So yeah, that’s my input.
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1 more reply u/Inevitable-Meet1056 avatar Inevitable-Meet1056 OP • 2d ago shep hey, was not planning to share this doc that hugo made publicly but i think it is important context, this was something we shared privately with the moderators today
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-rNP6aGCizg1O5vgi77cxnW8o7d-83matVgN0BBAgWM/edit?tab=t.0
some things in the doc are genuinely incorrect but it also raises a lot of valid concerns, we are going to be working towards improving this and i will have more announcements regarding that (although some will be internal for mods) soon.
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MithosYggdrasill1992 • 1d ago Horny 😰 The only genuine good thing I seen in that document is the fact that Hugo admits that y’all play favorites with creators that have a lot of people following them. Which explains why other creators who don’t have a lot of followers for whatever reason seem to get the short into the shaft with just about everything. From banning to lack of communication to just their bots, not being as widely, I guess advertised as some of the more well-known creators.
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1 more reply Fun_Sense6300 • 2d ago Lots of questions ⁉️ Hi shep! I’m a former volunteer as well. I’d love to hear what you think is incorrect since as far as I know nothing on there is untrue.
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u/Much-Aioli-4853 avatar Much-Aioli-4853 • 1d ago I'm going to be honest, this is the most vague corpo talk of a document I could ever witness.
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Traditional-Duty-348 • 2d ago Words aren't enought Shep, we got a lot of promises, it's been years since this platform is out, and we see the same problems are still going on.
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1 more reply u/Illustrious_Play7907 avatar Illustrious_Play7907 • 2d ago Unmotivated Bot Creator 🛌💤 What a joke.
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1 more reply lofiblossom • 2d ago What are you going to do about the lack of communication towards users and mods as they've said before that they know things at the same time as users do? Seems pretty bad to not inform your mods. Follow-up question: You promised more communication and then immediately did a few things that were poorly communicated. You mentioned that you have difficulty making announcements and communicating. You clearly need someone who can communicate effectively. Why won't you hire someone for that, or at least someone who can help? Do you realize people are having promise fatigue, and that most of the user base is upset with how things are done? I'm seeing creators leave right and left, the Discord is mad, the Reddit is mad. And this has been happening for a while. Do you have any concrete plans that will repair the trust, or will you keep going like this? Why don't you use testers anymore? Why is jllm v2 being tested on random people instead of people who can actually test and can/will leave feedback. You've mentioned star ratings before, but this doesn't show why someone rated something. I've seen for example that the messages are very short, but if people show that how do you know that the person themselves are not sending very short messages themselves? Why don't you just have (or keep, but they've been removed) testers who will test a version of what you're doing (either new functions or updated JLLM)? I saw that some popular bot creators are in a focus group(roles on discord), but just popular creators are not good testers, no offense to them, but it does seem like you just want feedback that feels good, and not actual feedback that different kinds of users give. To add to what you've mentioned about blind testing before, it is unethical and breaks the trust you already don't have, as most people are upset about how you handle things. They don't want to be testers, and you're losing valuable feedback.
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Difficult_Bed_1107 • 2d ago Lots of questions ⁉️ Are the image filters ever going to be revamped so creators dont get flagged incorrectly?
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8 more replies u/skyehawk124 avatar skyehawk124 • 2d ago Is there any plan to truly make good on promises for transparency about future updates? I only ask because so far every single major update since the original promise of transparency has been an overnight “toss this up and let the mods deal with fallout” issue.
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1 more reply Levitateds • 2d ago I would love to hear your thoughts about making the trending page more accessible / friendly to small creators.
Since we have the hidden gems tab now would it be possible to split bots up by who created them?
That way you could potentially add tabs for creators with less than 5k, less than 10k, less than 20k, etc etc (or whatever number you deem fair). Just right now it's disheartening to post and see you have to compete with the big creators for page 1 trending
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1 more reply EnvironmentPlastic96 • 2d ago why is communication between devs and mods on discord and reddit still so bad? this is laughably bad. nobody is on the same page about anything. apparently we can't reference articles about the site or you here either. verification? I submitted verification months before y'all ended the process. I waited so long and worked so hard to meet the criteria, submitted the application twice, and never got it.
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2 more replies Dull-Fact-4992 • 2d ago What happened to the site badge community founders were promised in exchange for their $10 donation to the site?
What’s going on with possible subscriptions? Some time ago the site was on the verge of dying due to lack of funds, and a plan for future subscriptions was in the talks. Is that still on the table? When can we possibly expect to see that? What will the subscription be for specifically, just cosmetics or a better llm?
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3 more replies u/FlintandStone avatar FlintandStone • 2d ago Is there any way the image filter could “show” us what's wrong with the image? I don't know exactly how it works, but it could it just put up a red transparent box over parts of an image it's flagging? It would make it much easier for people to understand the filter compared to the written guidelines. It could even help with working out false alarms on your end, as well!
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2 more replies u/IAmFraulein88 avatar IAmFraulein88 • 2d ago Are you going to implement some sort of way, like say, people can see recommendations or the page having a recommendation section. So like say, I was using a fluffy boyfriend bot, there would be recommendation of other bots similar to what I was using, etc. Not only that, to basically implement an algorithm to make it fair for newer creators to be seen.
Secondly, are you also going to implement a page specifically to show the latest bots?
Because it isn't fair that the bigger creators have to carry the responsibility of giving exposure to newer creators who are obviously talented and creative.
Thirdly - I am going to be real. There are better websites than what JAI could offer, at this point of time. I'm asking what are your plans are to make JAI different from the rest.
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u/Inevitable-Meet1056 avatar Inevitable-Meet1056 OP • 2d ago shep yes we have been working on a recommendations algorithm that we are currently testing internally, very excited to get this rolled out. you can sort by latest filter at the top right on search page we are working on a roadmap internally now so want to wait until that is finished to share specifics. at a high level, our community and creators are really what make janitor unique, we want to focus on letting creators build the best experiences possible while also improving the user experience (there is a lot to be done here, mobile app is an exciting start and will launch soon)
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3 more replies rottenhamburg • 2d ago Just need a clear answer about verification. Will it be paused completely, or will we still expect some being verified because a dev likes their bots? I really hope we can all be fair here.
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1 more reply u/Daemorix avatar Daemorix • 2d ago Are you going to neglect the website when the app comes out? Such as giving the App special uses, not updating the website, focusing more on the app than website to give it features the website doesn't have? Of course I understand there's some things that only the app could have, but as someone who prefers the webpage UI and such, and has seen this from other companies (ie. c.ai neglecting their website when the app came out, then neglecting the app when people preferred the website). it's a concern of mine that one will get priority rather than working on both.
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2 more replies u/throwout_accountant avatar throwout_accountant • 2d ago Why do some mods and verified users get access to features that aren't public? Crazy how some people can change their username and turn off comments and yet the community is constantly told those features are far off or not coming.
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biotechie73 • 2d ago A lot of popular creators have left the site due to issues with mods, site instability, and feeling like there's an overall lack of support (bots getting stolen, not being verified, hateful comments, discord bans, etc.).
With 2026 just starting, how does Janitor AI plan to keep the trust of the creators that are still active?
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2 more replies u/TerrariaMaster1 avatar TerrariaMaster1 • 2d ago Im wondering if we can get the ability to change our username or if thats not possibly then atleast a like display name to change what people see
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2 more replies u/Ok_Appearance_5252 avatar Ok_Appearance_5252 • 2d ago It wildly apparent there is creator favoritism going on within this community. This was addressed by several former mods. What steps are you taking to make sure this doesn't continue to happen? When will big creators be held accountable and to the same standards as smaller creators?
Also, many of the really big creators bot their chat counts. What are you doing to help small creators get recognized for the good work that they do when they don't inflate their numbers? How do you plan to revamp the trending page so everyone gets a fair shot?
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u/Evening-Editor8036 avatar Evening-Editor8036 • 1d ago • Edited 1d ago No es casualidad. Pero es más fácil contactar con grandes creadores. Yo, por ejemplo, sigo a un creador que ni siquiera tiene Discord. Maybe I should make a chat that is only enabled when they have to communicate🤔🤔🤔
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u/60sgothic avatar 60sgothic • 2d ago Do we have any information on verification badges and if there will be metric badges in place of them instead? Will all creators lose the verification badge as you are no longer offering the verification process?
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6 more replies u/SILVER5893 avatar SILVER5893 • 2d ago Why is JLLM an RNN model? To my knowledge those are considered really bad, especially at handling anything regarding memory.
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u/Inevitable-Meet1056 avatar Inevitable-Meet1056 OP • 2d ago shep theres many papers that argue the opposite, but ultimately it all comes down to cost, still constantly trying to improve things tho and i try most architectures that are well documented
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u/saintofhate avatar saintofhate • 2d ago Please clarify the difference between good and very bad csam.
also this:
One limitation was that creators above a certain follower threshold (at 666 followers, I kid you not) could no longer be banned directly. If you posted bannable content with 500 followers, moderation could act. If you posted the exact same content with 1k followers, moderation had to ask devs for permission. (That permission was never granted.) Because what do you mean you're allowing abuse to happen if someone is popular?
Also note if this is the comment that gets me banned, you are confirming that all of this is true.
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1 more reply BloodAria • 2d ago Why can you assign pronouns to all personas except the default one ?
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u/Inevitable-Meet1056 avatar Inevitable-Meet1056 OP • 2d ago shep yeah planning to fix this just a pretty big refactor unfortunetely but it is on my list.
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u/pundiss avatar pundiss • 2d ago ty
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u/Dirt_Shoddy avatar Dirt_Shoddy • 2d ago Oof… Not to that scale obviously, but I know the feeling. When everything almost comes into place except a detail that requires you to rewrite everything. The worst part of coding.
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BloodAria • 17h ago Thank you, appreciate all your work.
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Temporary_Knee_8398 • 2d ago Touched grass last week 🏕️🌳 Will you answer all the questions or just select the least sensitive ones? There's a lot here that hasn't been answered and it's very important.
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UMAbyUMA • 2d ago user Was the new model tested a few days ago JLLM2? I’m curious whether its extremely short default responses are a bug or an intentional design choice. If it’s intentional, do you see designing models to respond with brief, chat-like replies as the future direction of the site? Considering this is a story RP platform, that feels quite strange.
I understand the model is still in testing, so it could be an error. Still, I’d like to know whether the developers are confident this matches what users prefer…or at least what a portion of users prefer. From my perspective, creators who put real effort into building background settings and long-term users tend to favor more detailed, longer responses.
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3 more replies u/LonliestGirlOnMars avatar LonliestGirlOnMars • 2d ago I don’t really interact with JAI community because it’s not overly great but I do want ask a few questions especially after so MANY creators have been leaving lately.
Will there be a feature that creators can create moderations for their own bots and profiles? Will the on-sight reporting system get restructured? Will there be actual communication and overall transparency going forward? I have been seeing a lot of creators speak about a ton of issues happening but never been addressed by you at all. Racism, harassment, homophobia, and etc. Some creators have actively left JAI and the community because of this. Which is just very said. This isn’t just towards creators but their bots as well. I’ve noticed that some users find it okay to say disturbing and off the wall things regarding stuff they’ve done to the creator’s bot(s).
As a black woman myself, it's very sad and upsetting to see how prevalent these issues are on this platform.
Another issue is why you haven’t made any updates ot annulment regarding various changed that have been made to the site. I would least expected small blog posts or even polls to gauge what the user base might like and not like.
Some many creators have been fighting for these issues to at least to be taken taken into account and talked about by JAI. But, instead they meet with silence and a cycle of essentially being heard or given false promises. At this point more and more creators are leaving because the coming and JAI is not a completely great place to be. It's quite Toxic and has been for a while.
This is no way an attack or anything. Just sort of a small compilation of issues that existed but were never really acknowledged. I have also halted myself from creating for the time being until measure to protect creators and users from this is implemented and discussed.
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u/Inevitable-Meet1056 avatar Inevitable-Meet1056 OP • 2d ago shep yes i want creators to have the ability to moderate their stuff better themselves (i have been playing a lot with reddits subreddit moderation tools to try thingk of a way we can do this well)
site reporting:
we improved this a lot on the backend but i will be adding more fields to the existing modals to help.
communication/transparency:
yes, this has to improve i gave more info and plans for this in other questions but i just hate this being my biggest failure to the users and i think with sophia and hugo helping with it it will definetely become better.
harassment/racism/homophobia:
this is not okay, full stop and i really want janitor to be a safe space for us. better moderation tooling and ai mod will hopefully stop most of this.
unannounced changes:
planned fix with just overall coms improvements.
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1 more reply Dull-Fact-4992 • 2d ago In the discord announcement tab it said that you’ll do this q&a in merely 13 hours. That’s not long enough of a notice for everyone to ask questions. Also, why wasn’t that information provided here, but on the discord, when the q&a is specifically for reddit?
I guess my question is why are you so insistent on not communicating stuff professionally?
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13 more replies Difficult_Algae6925 • 2d ago Will you start showing what event badges look like upfront? That way we can decide if we like them or not? Because bluntly, it was disappointing to make holiday bots and the badge ended up being just the company logo recolored. It didn't feel festive at all, why not an ornament or something instead of a quick recolor?
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u/SILVER5893 avatar SILVER5893 • 2d ago “Ban csam only if it's very bad.” Good job, pal. You're very good at running a site.
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17 more replies u/WykkydLove avatar WykkydLove • 2d ago Unmotivated Bot Creator 🛌💤 Any plans to address the fact that people are leaving by the droves.
a mod just left an entire list of problems that we all suspected for a long time.
The fact that an NSFW AI chat front end cannot exist on Google play without being censored into oblivion?
How about the constant abuse of creators, or the shadow banning and gaslighting when it's brought up?
So many questions that the people who use your site have but will never be addressed.
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1 more reply lowfoam • 2d ago will you reconsider your stance on censoring discussion of other RP chat websites – especially ones that are open source and are not able to financially compete with JAI? Creators like to branch out across websites, and it feels stifling to not be able to discuss other sites
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1 more reply dandelionii • 2d ago iorveths 🐺 post-apocalyptic enthusiast What, in your opinion, is the weakest part of the site right now?
What’s the strongest?
I’m just sort of curious of the perspective from the dev side of things; I always wonder if your priorities are the same as what users seem to think should be prioritised.
Additionally, any info at all on jllmv2 would be neat :) context size, or any details…
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2 more replies u/Leading-Analysis-362 avatar Leading-Analysis-362 • 2d ago Do you or the team have any plans to address toxicity within the community, specifically in the official Discord?
I’m mainly referring to issues surrounding CSS. I joined the server a few months ago to ask questions and looked through previous discussions, and I noticed that some official team members are incredibly rude, if not outright toxic, in their responses.
Since then, I’ve spoken with other users who have shared similar experiences. Some were reportedly threatened with having their CSS or even their account removed if they did not add credit or remove specific pieces of code, even when it involved something very minor. For example, one person had only used a small part of a template for their profile picture, while everything else was standard or recolored.
I understand wanting to clamp down on people who steal or fully copy entire profiles. However, if someone is not a moderator, they should not be speaking or acting as if they have that authority. That kind of behavior should also have consequences. Especially if they contain severe threats like that.
Many of the people I’ve talked to are now genuinely afraid to ask questions at all, because the responses they receive are often things like “learn the basics first then come back” or “people new to CSS make me cry.” If someone is part of a team that is meant to help with CSS, they should not be behaving in a toxic or dismissive way toward newcomers asking beginner questions.
I apologize if the wording is a bit awkward. I'm Brazilian, English is not my first language, and I used a translator to help.
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3 more replies u/Virtual-Tooth-2829 avatar Virtual-Tooth-2829 • 2d ago Why did you change the hashtag system? If you want to find a specific tag now it's really annoying
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u/Not-a-Russian avatar Not-a-Russian • 2d ago I'm just interested to know why moderation became so strict and not transparent at the same time.
Example — creator CherryFiles was forced to go through all her bots that allegedly didn't comply with the new guidelines, and after making the requested changes, she was still made to go over everything, and moderation claimed she still didn't comply, making this the last straw for the the creator to leave the website. To my knowledge she didn't have any severe violations nor did she ignore the instructions. I understand it was her decision to leave but how does any reasonable moderator expect a person to go through hundreds of bots to fix definitions when it's not even clear what is still missing and what needs to be fixed?
Another person's post on this subreddit was removed by moderator when they posted their pet chicken when the site was down. Why? I mean it's a small thing, but it ties into the larger problem of moderation of both this subreddit and the website being slightly inadequate
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5 more replies ColdExpression4169 • 2d ago I have a few general questions.
• There was an really great amount of threads in Discord speaking about communication and transparency issues(some even attempted to contact you directly), even mods said that there would be an announcement, but… nothing in the end. Could you elaborate about this issue that affects the community? Why there wasn't any announcement regarding of that? it passed months since it was said abour this announcement.
• Regarding the Team's working focus. Actually, there's a app, the beta site, the JLLMV2, and I guess there's another site, but overall, 3 major things to work on, is it a wise decision to maintain an app in this period?
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u/Inevitable-Meet1056 avatar Inevitable-Meet1056 OP • 2d ago shep answered this in a few other htreads (sophia and hugo working on a plan) the app is a big update and lets us do a bunch of new fun stuff, beta site will be for experiments and jllmv2 has taken time because theres a lot of work still to be done to be able to scale up things whilst still being efficient
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2 more replies HallowsEve893 • 2d ago • Edited 2d ago These have been weighing on me a while, so I will try to ask them as respectfully as I can: There have been many shifts in what is “censored” or against Janitor’s TOS within the past year and a half or so. Starting with Image thumbnail censorship, to chat description images being censored, to now words being seemingly outright shadow banned.—My question is two-fold: what is guiding the team’s push towards censorship, and how can the community feel secure against further censorship (especially for chat text); given the progressively slippery slope site moderation that the team has implemented? My second question following the above, is if the censorship is primarily driven by investor demands…why not work with the community to find alternative sources of funding? We obviously care about the site, and if out of touch boomers are the ones hindering its growth…many of us would be willing to help however we can. This one is a personal nitpick, but what is that list of acceptable Pokemon site moderation has? As a longtime fan of the franchise, some of the standards used to create it were very…questionable at best (especially given how “sexual maturity” in the games isn’t really a thing? Because you have Mon’s like Bulbasaur, Squirtle, and Charmander all capable of popping out eggs there).
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1 more reply Ashamed_Yam_5385 • 2d ago Ruined for everyone else 😵❌ Hello, I'd like to know if there are plans to ban or further restrict Dead Dove content. I have noticed that some of the tags related to DD have been “removed by design” on the site, while those themes are still actually allowed.
I have a feeling the moderation regarding DD on the site tightened, since I'm seeing bots removed for “depictions of something that is allowed on the site” or even mere “potential” to break TOS. Besides, I noticed that both on Discord and Reddit bots with these themes are no longer allowed. I don't want my comment deleted so I'm being vague about those themes.
My second question is also regarding censorship, I'd like to know why the comment moderation filter is SO strict? It bans innocent responses, while true harassment can still get through it. Are there any plans to attune it?
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u/Inevitable-Meet1056 avatar Inevitable-Meet1056 OP • 2d ago shep no plans to change our current content policy
comment mod i will tune further it has gotten worse recently i have noticed
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1 more reply u/SILVER5893 avatar SILVER5893 • 2d ago Can't wait to see all the deleted comments.
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u/Inevitable-Meet1056 avatar Inevitable-Meet1056 OP • 2d ago shep unless its like unrelated it wont be deleted
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1 more reply u/FreemanS98 avatar FreemanS98 • 2d ago Maybe, Just Maybe Hello Shep. As a small creator, I have a few questions.
Hidden Gems Feature has been a decent addition, but it needs more curation (searching/filtering by tags) to encourage users to look into that tab. Any plans to improve it, or anything else can we expect for boosting small creators in the near future? There has been speculations and suspicions of some creators “botting” (inflating interaction numbers w/ spam) to get to the trending page, abusing the current system. What are your thoughts on that? A big concern in the community, is big creators leaving, for a variety of reasons (moderation, site drama, personal matters and more). Are you concerned about this?
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anathebanana22 • 2d ago When will bugs like the personas and following tags not working correctly be fixed? Will there more transparency from the dev team/mods in the future?
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Otaku_Instinct • 2d ago Are there any plans to improve bot discoverability? Right now, trending is dominated by (often smut-heavy) bots from already popular creators. There are a lot of high-quality bots from smaller creators that essentially lie dormant because they didn’t bubble up within the 24h/7d trending window. Are you considering additions like in-search tag exclusion, a search toggle for lorebook bots, or more metric-based filters such as sorting by favorites or engagement/average chat length?
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u/Aromatic-Light8642 avatar Aromatic-Light8642 • 2d ago What happened to scheduled posting? Leon said it was almost ready in December of 2024, then nothing
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u/Much-Aioli-4853 avatar Much-Aioli-4853 • 2d ago 1-) What is really going on with communication issue? Almost all of the updates/changes be it major or minor are never announced before, and just get noticed after people start noticing it. The lack of transparency and communication issue had been a big deal of janitor for two years. Most people voiced out their concerns, gave feedback and ran the course… but all we got was empty words of 'We heard you! We are looking on it!' with no noticable change in communication. At some point, when it is going to start matter to actually see some clarity on updates, logs or changes?
2-) At the start, JAI had been known and marketed as being fully uncensored NSFW site. I do agree that it is practically impossible to have 'full' NSFW. Though, this saying of 'fully uncensored NSFW site' changed into 'full NSFW on TEXT chats' after image NSFW ban. And two weeks ago our text chats got censored in suicidal ideation/self-harm stuff. The question is: Is JAI no longer what it is marketed as? What is going to happen to the core values of JAI that one of the main reasons for its creation was to NOT be like the other big competitors on censorship and filtering basis?
3-)How JAI plans to handle age verification when the laws may possibly catch up or JAI gains enough popularity to be in mainstream media that will probably make pressure?
4-) The Polls were introduced months ago. Just got used once. Is polls one of the forgotten features now? I remember its main idea was to ask community about changes that will happen in the site.
5-) What is with the UI changes? As much as I like some of them, majority of the community does not like something they used to be changed surprisingly without no notice.
6-) When feedback about some PR team for communication was given, the response given was 'no revenue'. Is there any plans to expand the team to actually have people who can communicate clearly with people?
7-) It is said and claimed that some creators still receive verification. Isn't verification badges supposed to be halted as the only one that can hand out verification was Shep, and there had been favouritsm in that case?
Any progress on milestones/achievements? Can we get some sort of timeline or roadmap about milestones?
9-) I myself had noticed some bots get their image placeholdered without any mod information about why in the comments. Did something in the moderation changed that mods no longer use comments to notify why the main image of the bots got placeholdered?
10-) In the current state of JAI, due to constant unnoticed changes, strict and vague moderation on images and favouritsm makes a very hostile enviroment for creators. Especially indie/small creators. All of my favourite creators left or on hiatus which more than half of them being the reason of the changes in JAI. I found new creators, and they left too. Other than big creators, the small creators often leave early. Any plans for making the site more new creator friendly?
11-) APP beta published, the 'image' that was given in the banner people thought it that betta fish was going to be the badge… but all they got was a golden mop coin badge. Not just that, there is still first supporters who paid $10 to support and promised a badge… which was not given. Was it a scam? If not, when they are going to be handed out just as promised?
12-) It is said that it is hard to expand the team due to revenue, and one of the main devs who were communicative is no longer working in JAI. With the publishing of mobile APP, is the dev teams going to be under more load or there is a dedicated team for mobile app?
13-) The search engine in JAI is… meh at best. I'm really curious about any updates on that?
14-) Some people say analyitcs (I think they are good) just pushes more agenda of 'numbers matter more, not creativity' thing. And others claim Shep said that there is a 'point' system for trending bots where similar stats in Analytics assign points to your bot which makes them go up in trending? Is this true? How does trending work?
These are all my questions so far, I'll add if I have new ones.
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u/Satanisnearby avatar Satanisnearby • 2d ago I was asking the same questions about transparency and NSFW. I'm hoping we get to do something like AO3 has, as a community, to fix the revenue issues without giving in to needing to slowly “child-proof” everything about the site, when the reason most (including me) use the site at all is for the NSFW
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u/Inevitable-Meet1056 avatar Inevitable-Meet1056 OP • 2d ago shep gonna group these and thank you for these questions
communication/announcements/polls:
this is a real issue. updates have been to scattered and often show up after people notice changes. “we hear you” without a visible system behind it just wont work at this scale. that is why updates are moving to the site/blog/notifs and polls were not ment to be one offs, but they ended up that way thats on me.
nsfw/censorship/selfharm law:
janitors core value of romantic rp has not changed. what did change was how legal/safety constraints were handled and communicated. that should of been clearer and earlier. the goal is not to turn janitor into a filtered platform, but i need to be explicit about what is a legal constraint vs a product choice.
age verification:
no plan to roll out intrusive age checks right now, we do have some plans to roll it out a way for people to verify age if they have been incorrectly banned for potentially being a minor.
ui changes:
ui updates have moved faster than communication around them. fair criticism. changes shouldnt feel random or surprising, also working on a way to automate this based off code i deploy.
verification:
answered in other questions, but basically the old system was bad and i think we will have a clear path forward really soon better creator analytics are the first step.
milestones:
being worked on, ultimately we had to start tracking things otherwise how would we define milestones etc so with creator analytics which i will keep adding dif data points to i think we can build out a rly cool system for this, also want to stress that we will be able to make some that arent just related to vanity metrics and try tie some cool things into there also, like stats based of how the rps are actually going.
moderation/creator experience:
small creators getting hit with unclear actions or no explanation is a problem. if janitor only works for big creators, that is a failure on the platform level, not a creator one.
app/badges/team:
not a scam, they got the discord badge and jllm access we couldnt do the on site badges coz of discord problems as there had to be a link with that, the mop badge will be given to early app users and fish badge ill hand out soon for beta testers.
search/analytics/trending:
search still needs work and rly excited about unreleased progress there. analytics are not meant to replace creativity with numbers they are there to show creators how people use their bots, and i think with scripts we may be able to build out a way to see what parts of the rp people got up to etc so u can finally make bots with an end etc. trending needs to be able to make smaller creators become #1 on it that is my goal, recommendations should also help with this.
not pretending all of this is fixed today, but these are my goals and aspirations for janitor,
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2 more replies u/Separate-Nobody-613 avatar Separate-Nobody-613 • 2d ago Okay, let's be clear. Have you seen Discord? People just don't believe there will be any changes. You promise, promise, and promise, but there's nothing concrete for us to hold on to and ask about. Why are you doing this? Why don't you guarantee the safety of your creators? Why have you let problems pile up for three years and only now are you showing something to try to fix the shortcomings?
They need something to hold on to or something that gives them security, a public apology, the resignation of those who have abused their power. It's not fair that creators who have put so much effort into YOUR platform, creators and users who have grown YOUR platform, are being affected in this way.
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u/New-Past-7289 avatar New-Past-7289 • 2d ago Hi founder, I have only one question: when will our website launch algorithm-based recommendations?
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u/hugo-jai avatar hugo-jai • 2d ago JanitorAI Staff Jumping in for shep here – hopefully very soon! we have a recommendations model we are testing internally right now
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1 more reply The_Pinkish_Lemonade • 2d ago Would it be possible to get an official tv show / movie character tag? I love these type of bots but I find difficulty looking for them unless I’m specific in my search because the only related tag is “fictional” . I never used it yet, but I heard the new JLLM is short form, and I’m wondering if you’d rather take it a different direction. If you guys were able to make something like an alternate Claude Opus, with good memory, and fine long details and paragraphs I think people would fork over money if you made it a paid alternative (as long as it’s cheaper than Opus which is outrageous ), while also keeping the original JLLM as a free option Just a couple ideas!
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mirmur44 • 2d ago Will there be any major improvements to the JLLM to improve response quality, memory or just anything? I heard a lot of mention about a so called JLLM 2 last year but then nothing happened.
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Empty_Frosting6668 • 2d ago Shep. I'm honestly frustrated. Why aren't you working on your communication? You need to address the moderation issue because you and the other devs are becoming frustrating to me. We ask time and time to work on your communication. Three years using this site and the communication is still no being work on.
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u/moooshek avatar moooshek • 2d ago Are there any plans on hiring an accessibility manager, or working on better site accessibility features and making sure you're not releasing features that could be dangerous, harmful or otherwise impeding to people with various disabilities?
A few times in the past (most recently with the holiday overlay for bot cards) there were situations where potentially dangerous features were released with no way to easily toggle them off immediately, causing many people to be unable to use the site fully until the problem was resolved a fair few days later. There's also features that are still fully inaccessible (i.e. some parts of the site do not work with screen readers at all) or imperfect (CSS toggle - while I am happy we have it, I think it's a halfway measure, and ideally there should be a simple, customizable (with very few necessary features!) base profile that would be shown when the CSS toggle is off).
On that note, are there any plans of implementing a total site animation toggle that would encompass any dev AND user implemented animations (including gifs in profiles)?
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u/MonopolyManPorn avatar MonopolyManPorn • 2d ago Gooner 🥵💦 Will JLLM2 be paid? And if so, is there an estimated price?
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u/Inevitable-Meet1056 avatar Inevitable-Meet1056 OP • 2d ago shep i still think its possible to make it free and then paid would roll out later for more context, but overall im focused on making the free experience better right now
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u/Charming_Fuel8252 avatar Charming_Fuel8252 • 2d ago for the personas, we used to be able to start from where we left off on specific personas. now if we choose from any persona, it will just go to our latest chat. will it ever be fixed?
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u/Inevitable-Meet1056 avatar Inevitable-Meet1056 OP • 2d ago shep i will work on this today and future chats should start working the same way just wont be able to back fill it i think.
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u/Charming_Fuel8252 avatar Charming_Fuel8252 • 2d ago ty!
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Aggressive_Dealer594 • 2d ago Tech Support! 💻 I know, right? Is this a bug? Because it's really inconvenient for users who chat with the same bots but use different personas
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u/FroBlow avatar FroBlow • 2d ago So, your response?
https://janitorai.com/characters/18ea0d4a-6f22-4850-9647-cefc6c447f16_character-loved-you-all-3
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u/Scou1y avatar Scou1y • 2d ago Lots of questions ⁉️ ONLY IF IT'S VERY BAD
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Krishthecrusher2010 • 2d ago Certified Jooner 😩💦 What is the estimated time you will be bringing the milestone badges to profiles? Will they be on a different row than the event tags? Will they have the date for when they were achieved? What are the next updates you and the team plan to roll out?
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naughtylilnympho • 2d ago Will the JLLM be updated? I've noticed that it hasn't been updated in a good while since it kept repeating the same thing via rerolls and ignoring the advanced prompt.
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TraditionalFly3767 • 2d ago Will we be able to filter for bots with lorebooks/scripts? Current new filters have been very useful, but there can be more I think.
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TransFat88 • 21h ago Touched grass last week 🏕️🌳 Or which don’t allow proxy!
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u/Nymlithx avatar Nymlithx • 2d ago 🌈 Wedding Planner Would you ever consider adding persona lorebooks? I've seen this used on a couple of other sites and feel that users would benefit in being able to expand on their personas by using keyword triggers like we do on bots.
Any plans on adding an announcement tab? Right now the only way creators can communicate and provide updates with their followers is by making an announcement bot, having a separate tab that could be visible on our profiles or sent out as a notification would be very helpful
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u/Melodic-Counter-4546 avatar Melodic-Counter-4546 • 2d ago Horny 😰 Release the shep files
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Inevitable-Meet1056 OP • 2d ago shep u/GTAFAN2007 avatar GTAFAN2007 • 2d ago i have a few questions about JLLM v2:
how's the development going? estimated release date? it will be paid? or be made free later on? how's your day? :)
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u/Inevitable-Meet1056 avatar Inevitable-Meet1056 OP • 2d ago shep been working with a bunch of new tools to make inference work much more efficiently, that is the main hurdle right now, ultimately deepseek themselves can run it much cheaper than anyone else, its all just an engineering challenge. iam comically bad with timelines but it will be out when its out i suppose only paid if we cant figure out infrastructure challenges, also think it can be free at low context regardless. really good honestly going through these questions has been suprisingly theraputic.
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1 more reply u/rXthamphXtam_ne avatar rXthamphXtam_ne • 1d ago Are you gonna start paying your moderators are are you going to have them face death and rape threats while they do favors for you for free like little slaves??
And not thank them in the slightest, by the way. I'd like you to know that the apologies from the dev team are half assed and pathetic at best.
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SabiCatto • 2d ago u/Mellolot avatar Mellolot • 2d ago Supernatural Aficionado I’m not on the Discord, so sorry if these are already common knowledge over there
•Were there ever plans to implement things like creator announcements or request forms directly on the site, instead of relying on bots? (I know there are possible safety concerns with privately handled request forms for creators)
•How are the badge images made? Are they fully AI-generated/ generated & edited/ made from scratch/ no comment for legal reasons?
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WendyLove34 • 2d ago ⚠️429 Error ⚠️ Will the site ever have group chats or allow downloading chats??? I'm loving the chat-branching option
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u/JazzlikeNet1224 avatar JazzlikeNet1224 • 2d ago google “janitorai chat download” and the first browser extension you see is what you need
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1 more reply u/Background-Tutor7684 avatar Background-Tutor7684 • 2d ago When are subscriptions going to be implemented? Or are they ever going to be implemented?
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LSDJoeAna • 2d ago Will there be a feature in the future to have the capability to exclude tags from the JanitorAI search engine? I understand you can block tags, but that's really tedious to do with every search and then go back to unblock them.
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u/bone_jar avatar bone_jar • 19h ago Do devs or mods ever read private user chats and ban people for the content in those? Or are bans mostly for creators based on the content, keywords, or images in the public or private pages of bots they create
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u/PsychologicalLog9047 avatar PsychologicalLog9047 • 2d ago Certified Monsterfucker What are you planning on implementing next?
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u/Fine-Shop-8716 avatar Fine-Shop-8716 • 2d ago Gemini Glazer Release the Shep files 🗣️🗣️
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Inevitable-Meet1056 OP • 2d ago shep Meewelyne • 2d ago Horny 😰 My question isn't something very life changing, but I was wondering if it's possible to set a gender for the main persona just like for the other personas, and maybe detach it from the user's profile and just be able to set a fav persona to use as default.
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u/Satanisnearby avatar Satanisnearby • 2d ago • Edited 2d ago Where are we with getting subscriptions up and running?
I know devs are busy but despite a promise for more transparency almost a year ago, the only thing “more transparent” was “hey the site is down” or “hey I did this thing” after the thing had already been done. Or even not at all, like when the persona selection was changed 4 separate times and no one liked the way it was being changed, or the accessibility issues every time a change was announced/discovered that made it worse for those who needed accessibility to get it. Some features that were changed and then removed needed toggles to go along with them so people who wouldn't be able to handle them could toggle them on/off or change profiles how they wanted. Are you still planning on being more transparent? Are you planning on any form of accessibility features for new roll-outs or a more customized experience for the website so people can be more happy with how the site looks, feels, and works?
And edit to add: The site seems to slowly be tightening the restrictions on what is/isnt allowed. I won't argue the current rules up for content moderation, those are acceptable, but the slow tightening of what can be shown in images, the shadowbanning of tags…a while ago you said you use your own site and didn't want the adult content to leave, that's why you made the site when others failed at that. But where's the line in restricting it? Will you just restrict content to what investors want, which will be child friendly, or will you let us have adult content on an adult site? I know it's said that payment processors cause difficulties for things like getting subscriptions from people who would pay to keep this site independent and running smooth, but somehow sites like AO3 manage to keep their content up and running with every ““non-sensible”” thing on the planet to payment processors, and they have donations every year that go through. There's a way for jai to have similar, right?
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Fit_Specific7691 • 2d ago Horny 😰 From what I've seen you, the moderation team and the dev team are receiving a lot of backlash and downright abuse regularly. Given the post from Mikale, I think it's safe to say that something needs to be changed in the structure of the team. Do you have any plans regarding that?
I think reassigning workload, changing and clarifying responsibilities and ensuring a more transparent ruleset are incredibly important, so that fewer users approach the wrong people. For example if everyone would approach the dev team to ask about bans or stuff like that, it increases work they shouldn't have in the first place. And the communication lines need restructuring so the mod team is more involved with certain decisions, since they have important inputs to make.
Just to clarify: I don't think this is a problem that came about due to maliciousness. But due to structural and communication issues.
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suckmy_knox • 2d ago Yeah, most of these things are certainly true and it is clusterfuck. But some things I can understand, seeing as the world and the userbase act - considering, that we are getting new laws everyday that either block NSFW stuff or want IDs for everything, I can understand a lot of rules being made. And with being reluctant about banning big creators - sure, its unfair as fuck, but I've seen multiple times people here screaming, because their fav creator made TOS breaking content and then complained bc it was deleted.
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CardTrickOTK • 2d ago -Why did censorship get so oppressive?
-Is multi-character bots officially like 'add a character to chat' possible?
-Image generation in site and in chat?
-Why does being blocked mean you can't play a bot but can see it? Wouldn't just not being able to directly interact with the creator be enough?
-RPG mode one day? (IE having UI for inventory, characters, etc that are persistent and visible?)
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u/abstractEnthusiast avatar abstractEnthusiast • 2d ago Are there any plans to implement switching of which persona is the primary for an account?
What’s the status of JLLM2? How much does it differ from the original, and in what areas?
Can we expect more visible on-site announcements going forward, instead of the majority being relegated to the Discord?
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Phill_Rabbit • 16h ago Guys, you need to hire a good (paid!) project manager or someone else to connect departments and resolve all issues WITHIN the team asap
Good luck with sorting everything out and becoming a good, strong, and friendly team where everyone respects each other and each other's work ✌️
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DeviTries • 2d ago Hi,
Sorry this might be long winded.
I don't understand why Analytics need to be given to creators (even if you would want to implepemnt them for other things like badge assignments).
- They don't provide you any sort of feedback which you can use to improve.
- They mostly give creators performance anxiety.
- They might make small creators completely give up entirely because now there are other 9 colored graph lines that can show them one of the bots they probably put a lot of effort into has flopped.
That being said, I really don't think that should be kept accessible to content creators.
Also, is there any plan to have something like a “for you” tab instead of the trending? Something that maybe based on the tags of the bots I usually play with can suggest me more of that?
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bibimbao • 2d ago As a small creator (less than 30 followers) I like the analytics tbh. I wanted to ask, with your point about feedback, what exactly should be said to someone on how to improve their bots? I think if bot-making personally becomes a numbers game and popularity contest, analytics won't be good for you. There should be an option to turn it off or move analytics to a separate page entirely so bot makers won't have to see it if they don't want to.
Personally, I like seeing it tbh and lines go up when people do (rarely) use my bots. I see how long, I see when, I see the average time. The numbers give me an idea of what people like about my bots, what drew them in, what my audience is growing into. I don't see analytics as what I should be doing or what I have to do. If my bot flops then it just didn't find it's audience.
Just wanted to offer my perspective as someone who likes analytics but sees your point. Being able to choose a feature instead of it being forced on everyone would be nice.
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1 more reply Just-1-more-episode • 2d ago I want a “for you” tab too!
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1 more reply Acrobatic_Long_6059 • 2d ago At what point did you decide the monetary gain was worth compromising on your values of no censorship?
Will there ever be a system for accountability to prevent lying and inconsistency in the future?
How can users trust what devs have to say, when genuine concerns are not addressed in communications, and the subreddit habitually deletes users' valid criticisms?
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u/justwannansfw avatar justwannansfw • 2d ago Are public chats ever coming back? Officially they're still in a weird limbo state where parts of the website are designed around having to deal with them but there's been no word on the progress for their rework
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bibimbao • 2d ago Are there any plans for upcoming comment moderation? I feel like something should be done regarding how creators can be harassed relentlessly (especially if WLW).
Do you have ideas or plans for making it easier for newer bots and smaller creators to get bots out there (besides hidden gems)? I feel like the way JAI's bot pages are (trending, popular, etc) currently only serve to make bigger creators bigger. Someone (anyone) with 10k to 50k followers is going to hit trending/popular and Hidden Gems can feel like a free for all. Will analytics be helping this?
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u/Economy-Platform-263 avatar Economy-Platform-263 • 2d ago Is Jllm mistral?
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1 more reply AmphibianNarrow5383 • 2d ago Will we be getting a scheduled post feature to set a certain time when a bot will automatically toggle itself to pubic?
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Icy_Actuator1831 • 2d ago So I am having a weird issue, I cannot use separate chats for different user persona like i used to. Every 'continue latest chat' button on all the persona lead to only the last updated chat only.
Previously I could have separate chats for separate personas.
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u/JazzlikeNet1224 avatar JazzlikeNet1224 • 2d ago Hi Devs,
I wanted to ask a specific question regarding the transition from the current Verified Creator system to the upcoming badge system.
If a new system is being implemented, will the current “Verified Creator” tick marks next to usernames be removed for everyone, or will existing verified creators retain them as legacy badges?
I ask this because, from a creator's perspective, especially for those of us with smaller audiences who are still actively contributing, the current badge is not just a icon. It functions as a visible signal of trust and quality.
Honest observation of platform mechanics shows that the verified tick influences reader behavior: it helps users decide which bot to chat with and which creators to trust. It represents a standard that many of us strive for: to write better bots, contribute more, and earn that recognition.
If the plan is to discontinue the badge for new earners but allow past earners to keep it, it creates a significant issue:
Uneven Playing Field: It permanently advantages older accounts over newer, potentially more active creators. Demotivation: As mentioned in previous feedback by others (re: transparency), having a tangible goal gives creators direction. Removing that goal without a clear replacement, while leaving it visible for others, sends a message that newer efforts are inherently “worth less,” even if the quality meets or exceeds previous standards. Could we get some clarity on whether the playing field will be leveled (i.e., a full reset/removal of the old ticks) when the new system drops?
Thanks.
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u/Mysterious_Order8408 avatar Mysterious_Order8408 • 1d ago I have questions mainly related to the chatbot experience
-Compared to anything else, how much time or effort is being put into improving the RP (That is the JLLM model) experience, for example say “50% of the development of the site is being put into the JLLM”
-My main concern with bots is them losing their personality after a while but many others have different concerns about the bots but TO YOU what are your main things to improve in regards to the model ? Or what are the things that currently irk you the most about the bots and how much of a priority has gone into fixing those concerns ?
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Sweaty_Surround_5565 • 1d ago Any plans on Making Lorebooks exportable I put a lot of work into mine and I dont want it be gone just in case Janitor AI doesnt stay up
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u/Ambitious-Ad-5611 avatar Ambitious-Ad-5611 • 1d ago 🏝️ Vacationer How can you find proof that users are minors/not minors?
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Nider001 • 1d ago Is there ever going to be a monthly trending page? A mere week feels too short to give spotlight to all the new characters, which just end up getting buried and forgotten afterwards. Besides, not all users have willingness or opportunity to visit the site often enough to regularly check the weekly trending page
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TransFat88 • 21h ago Touched grass last week 🏕️🌳 There are plenty of third party age verification sites that would not compromise user privacy with their accounts, and since there are already limited vs limitless bots, I don’t see why there is no verification in place to use the latter. Otherwise, what is the point of distinguishing them?
Having to verify anything even with a third party might even discourage some of the CSAM content.
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1 more reply u/blairsmacaroon avatar blairsmacaroon • 2d ago will jllm ever return to being as peak as it used to be before it got nerfed around christmas last year?
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El_Fez • 2d ago 🏝️ Vacationer Thoughts on your plans for getting smaller creators noticed? As someone who is still on this side of medium-ish (650 followers, a couple of bots that took off, but the majority still only get maaaaaybe 1-2K chats on a good day), the most frustrating part of the site is getting lost in the crowd.
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u/fisticuffmoi avatar fisticuffmoi • 2d ago Unmotivated Bot Creator 🛌💤 How do you envision the site if you had no technological or accessibility barriers? What would be your end-goal?
Do you see yourself giving the site to someone else to technically manage it while you become more hands-off in the future?
How will creators be held accountable for poor behavior?
What are the plans for reporting and moderation? From both the perspective as a creator and user, I’m wondering how you envision the dynamics between creators and users, user to user, and creator to creator? Will Janitor always have a volunteer team, or are there plans to expand?
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WearCertain7817 • 2d ago What would even be poor creator behavior? If it happens offline, Jai has 0 reason to do something about it. They aren’t the police lol. No social site does that
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3 more replies Exciting_Elderberry3 • 2d ago • Edited 2d ago will public chats ever return? and if so, is there a date or estimate on when that'll be?
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1 more reply u/Extreme_Body_808 avatar Extreme_Body_808 • 2d ago Hi Shep, good morning, afternoon, or evening.
Are you going to release an update for the Lorebooks soon? Nobody's talking about them, and they're important in Janitor. Why can't we use the Lorebooks in public bots yet? I mean, can't we add our own Lorebooks to public bots? Is there a technical reason, or is it just not implemented yet? Since you improved the website interface, will you be improving the Lorebooks soon? I'm not asking for an exact date, just if it will be soon or if there's a possibility later.
I also have an idea: when you choose a public bot, tapping it should give you two options:
Add: To add your book to the bot and also remove it.
Replace: Next to 'Add'. When you enter, a tab should appear with the same design as the one you see when creating your own character, referring to “My Personas.” In that tab, the creator's storybook could be toggled on or off with a simple tap. If the user wanted to reactivate it, they would have to tap it again, and there would also be 'Accept' or 'Cancel' buttons to save the changes or cancel them.
The idea is that if a user creates a storybook similar to the creator's but changes things, there should be issues, and they should have the option to replace it, allowing them to turn off the creator's storybook simply because they don't like it and replace it with their own version. And this function (to add their own history books or have the function to disable the history book they don't like and help them add their own history books to their public or private bot chats, just for themselves, without changing the public bot or affecting or harming the experience of other users, nor the creator's history book. That is, just that they add a book and it applies only to the user, not to other users. Also, it should allow them to add their own history books if they want. Could this be done in the future, or is there any possibility that this function I mentioned will be implemented when the time comes to add history books for public bots? When the time comes, or when they update the history books, what will they update? Will there be a chance that the history book interface will be more user-friendly, including the save button when you create a history book? Please… Seriously, there are a lot of people who It gets confusing when you want to create your bot, and it gets confused (I include myself in that). I'd like to see if there's a possibility of improving the interface. I mean… Since they updated the website's interface, it wouldn't hurt if the same thing happened with the history books. Or at least they could improve them a bit, at least in their function as history books.
(Sorry for not translating it; it was impossible for me, and I tried, but well, with the AI, it came out awful. It even pulled things out that didn't belong and didn't fit with my text.)
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u/Educational_Map_6049 avatar Educational_Map_6049 • 1d ago So what about that chat duplication/branching feature?
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u/Ilumineee avatar Ilumineee • 2d ago Unmotivated Bot Creator 🛌💤 Do you plan to open the verification system one day?
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u/puppys_paradise avatar puppys_paradise • 2d ago Horny 😰 On the CSS side of things, are there big changes expected in terms of properties, library-dependencies (like changing from Chakra) etc.? Thank you for all your hard work shep & devs <3 much love
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u/4n0n-505 avatar 4n0n-505 • 2d ago 🗣 Body, mind, and soul Are group chats/rooms (multiple bots being placed together to chat with one another) planned to be added eventually?
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Skullzrulerz • 2d ago Would you consider adding group chats in the near future?
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u/Relative-Hunt-1840 avatar Relative-Hunt-1840 • 2d ago Hi schleppy I was wondering when cosmetics (eg the beloved carrot ~ other in-chat optics) are available <3 I would toss a coin (dollar) for something like that
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Just-1-more-episode • 2d ago The carrot 🥕 🥕 that was a nice touch. Bit funny while chatting with dead dove though. 😅
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u/Low_Link_4076 avatar Low_Link_4076 • 2d ago aHR0cHM6Ly9yZW50cnkub3JnLzdoZG1maGs1 ^^^base64 (DECODE IT FOR LINK)
What do you think about this? Any response made yet?
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u/Mission-Mechanic2639 avatar Mission-Mechanic2639 • 2d ago Sophia | LoreBary Founder 📖 💜
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u/KingofReddit12345 avatar KingofReddit12345 • 2d ago JanitorAI Chaos Gremlin Moderator 👹 Hi Sophia! 😊
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Rebel_1841 • 2d ago Hey shep, hope you’re doing good. I was wondering what your thoughts were on a few things:
Are there any plans to make it so users can chat with more than one bot at the same time? What is the status on JLLM2? What are the biggest updates you and the team are working on that you expect to come out relatively soon? Thanks for reading and have a good one!
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BlueberrySmall7866 • 12h ago Certified Monsterfucker I swear being able to chat with multiple bots have been possible. Even sometimes around updates, mostly late 2024 and early 2025. but recently nothing. But I vividly remember having several chats going at once when I first started using Janitor. Was peak for my ADHD brain.
The only other way would possibly be using multiple devices or browsers. IE having one chrome browser with one account and one with a different account. Not sure if it works, might have to check that, but also seems easier on a computer and not phone/tablets. Btw mad probs to people using the site on mobile… Tried it once and idk how people do it.
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u/Nyssorae avatar Nyssorae • 2d ago Hii, do you plan to bring back certain profile customization features through CSS, such as the Url() property?
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u/Outrageous-Fan6575 avatar Outrageous-Fan6575 • 2d ago Just here to say I love the data analytics.
Also, should honestly just do away with verified badges entirely, too many people with superiority complexes based on that checkmark.
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Support_Lesbians • 2d ago Skullzrulerz • 2d ago Would you consider adding group chats in the near future?
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huelessheadhunter • 2d ago I only make private bots for myself and proxy but thank you for giving us a place to write our stories. I really enjoy the ease of the platform. Excited to try out the nee JLLM when it comes out.
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u/NoTax6772 avatar NoTax6772 • 1d ago I have one big question, why is my janitor ai site not working? It's been daaayyysss😣😣😣
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MallNo6353 • 1d ago • Edited 21h ago • Brand Affiliate 🤦♂️ I’ll take the heat for this 💪🏻
My personal advice to SHEP is - start making structure and clarity around what the role of the moderator is. Leave all Janitor AI representation up to YOUR website only and your Dev Team. Update in ONE location. Moderators jobs are to moderate the communication on that platform in terms of terms and conditions of conversations. Remember that most old school business owners will remind you that too many chefs in the kitchen burns the food. It’s up to moderators to check your announcement on your site - end of, step back … take care of your energy and place it into your creativity instead.
When people step out of their lanes for whatever reason, it gets too difficult to carry especially for a startup. Moderation roles are not representation roles and that needs to be clear. It’s not up to moderators to be discussing updates or changes. That should be on Janitor ai announcement news only. Moderators keep the peace inside social coms platforms. That’s it. Sorry it’s just that I’ve managed business for over 20 years. PR isn’t necessary, clarity of roles is.
Moderators inside the site managing chat? I’m unpacking. Yes I have read it, no I don’t understand why users can’t adhere to the rules to the point of moderation but I believe it. Again, same applies. They need very clear boundaries of role.
Communication = Distribution. Moving away from Janitor ai social coms is inevitable as you are scaling. Move official announcements to your site only. Other channels become noise and hard to manage - even larger competitors had to do this in the early stages. - you’re now too big to be trying to communicate across platforms. It leads to all this. mods there need clear separation form representing JAI and the “sadly” toxic side needs to die down. This usually happens when capacity of product exceeds multiple coms channels.
A sad byproduct of the “human” touch when you’ve created something like this is similar to becoming an influencer or celebrity. You’re managing a fan base because you’re not selling it as product. Unpopular to say but pattern matches. This is why you’ve got behavior all over the socials. It’s mirroring fan behavior. The professional answer is to remove personal contact outside of your app. Use comms as a distribution tool only.
Moderation processes like these were not necessary before law changes and that hasn’t been understood by some creators. I don’t see anything wrong with any steps taken by Janitor ai.
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MallNo6353 • 2h ago I want to add after reading all the documentations that I am aware of the tone and the read. Every AI provider continues to improve comms. Every startup or non-income based provider is learning about Moderation and safety teams and tech roles. All need to be very clearly documented and pipelined.
The average pipeline for flow in any game (animated game) that includes comms is 2 years. It takes 2 years to be flawless and that’s on apps that are earning and pay a full wage.
No question that moderators have done a brilliant job and work for free. That’s exceptional. But nobody should be shouting about communication before the role definitions are absolute, because it really has too many communication channels that go directly to Devs. That is choice but it opens the door for this type of thing to continue.
The rest of what was said, I’m not Dev, but I don’t agree with it. Grievances need a proper channel and shouldn’t ever become public town square incidents.
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CaptainAcorn96 • 1d ago will you actually be nuking the site? there are rumors and I’m scared
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u/Basic-Profession-480 avatar Basic-Profession-480 • 2d ago Shep!!! 🥰 Excited about all the updates and hard work. Want to give a shoutout where you can actually see it. Been with the site since 2023, it’s come so far!!! Love this site. Can’t wait for the monetary portion to work out so there’s a steady stream of cash flow to keep it all going. 🥰 (but of course wanna keep things as unrestricted as possible. 😋) Happy 2026! Love your work and upbeat down to earth personality with handling everything.
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u/hugo-jai avatar hugo-jai • 2d ago JanitorAI Staff Hey whats up
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Before-Nightmares • 2d ago Hugo, please blink twice if Shep isn't treating you right because of the email drop. We'll take care of you, Hugo. <3
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1 more reply u/JazzlikeNet1224 avatar JazzlikeNet1224 • 2d ago Hugo, I know it's incredibly hard to deal with so many things that have been piling up over the years. Please stay alive. And if possible, try to make sure no questions are left unanswered in this Q&A as it would really help the team start rebuilding trust with the users.
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horrificvisit89 • 1d ago are you guys hiring (backend)? 😭
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WearCertain7817 • 2d ago • Edited 2d ago Will creators ever get the opportunity to be paid for their work? Like how Instagram and TikTok are monetized
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u/CoffeeAdict_192 avatar CoffeeAdict_192 • 2d ago Hi
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u/Wild-Gap-4779 avatar Wild-Gap-4779 • 1d ago all I got is this: #savejanitorai
spread this hashtag if you love j ai.
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u/Ill_Vehicle5472 avatar Ill_Vehicle5472 • 2d ago there a new propble on the site some of the bots arent responding to anything now
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u/Designer-Field-7838 avatar Designer-Field-7838 • 2d ago Is this just me? What should I do and how long should I wait? Help!🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Your access has been blocked by our firewall
We are currently working on improving our security measures to ensure they only block malicious traffic while allowing legitimate users to access our services without interruption.
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canis_dingo • 2d ago Howdy shep! You and I talked briefly on Discord a while ago about an extension I made. :)
What are your thoughts on the analytics that were recently added? Any chance we'll get the ability to have a “creator dashboard” or anything soon? I've halted dev work on my extension when I heard you were adding it to the site, and while the character specific analytics are super nice (WAY more info than I can track. I love it!) it would be beneficial for us to be able to look at overall trends for our bots. <3
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u/Cosmic_Cubebox avatar Cosmic_Cubebox • 2d ago Hi Shep, good morning, good afternoon, or good evening. I've been on the site for about two years, but there's something I wanted to ask that recently came to mind: When will the option to request to become a verified creator be available again on the site itself? Thank you in advance for the opportunity to ask directly.
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methylenebluestains • 22h ago Is it possible to get some transparency on the site's financials?
While I understand that this tends to be a sensitive topic, I would consider both the userbase and the volunteers to be stakeholders in the site's overall success. My concern is that most moderation teams are exposed to dark content and threats. With the site having expanded the way that it has, I would like to know if there is room to pay the people who are risking their psychologically safety to keep the site relatively corporate friendly. I also have a hard time believing that the site that dominates other chatbot sites is solely being run off volunteer work.
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u/Hot-Stand7222 avatar Hot-Stand7222 • 10h ago Will the upcoming JLLM2 model be unfiltered like the current one?
What are your thoughts on the allegations against you?
What do you think about the developers who left your site? This is no longer something that can be ignored by saying, “That's their loss. The site is still great.” Especially after recent events, everyone is spewing venom at you.
This isn't a question, but your rule about not mentioning other sites is quite absurd. I just wanted to point it out.
What is the level of privacy in our chats? I have serious doubts about that.
Why are you tightening your current image policy even more since it came into effect, even though everyone criticizes it?
(I tried to speak as respectfully as possible. I hope you won't take it personally.)
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