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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
by hosolmaz 4y ago
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.
- r_hoods_ghost 4y agoFair enough, I guess there's value to the social feedback you get in discord and being able to easily see what others have input.
- stavros 4y agoThere 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.
- abhisekumar 4y agoTrue enough. I totally agree with you. without Discord if it will be normal web portal it will be very nice.
- fnordpiglet 4y agoThey have show and tell and prompt training channels. If you only hang out in the newbies channel then yes, it will be newbies.
- tastroder 4y agoI don't know, that might work for some but I would have prefered a webapp with a nice UI instead. I've subscribed for a month but the first time I discovered some of the parameters was just now when someone on HN linked to their docs. Had no idea they even had those. The flow was invite -> public discord channel with other people that don't know about what prompts work well with their model -> run out of free GPU time -> subscribe -> move to private discord message where none of the social aspect matters.
- fnordpiglet 4y agoThis isn’t entirely true - when you move to the chat with the bot you still have access to the show and tell and prompt training channels as well as the newbie channels you started in. But you can create without posting in public as you iterate via the private chat with the bot. I believe the newbie channels even still work for image creation if you really want. By the way, /help for the bot works. Surely we always try the help flags?
- tomxor 4y agoProbably has a split effect. I saw no way to interact without discord, close tab.
- unsupp0rted 4y agoSame here. I'm not a gamer and Discord isn't a thing in my world. I simply closed the tab.
- corysama 4y agoI’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.
- stavros 4y agoI 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.
- fragmede 4y agoyou 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.)
- simsla 4y agoWhich is half the fun for /some/ people. What people are saying (including me) is that it's not fun for them, and Discord feels like a big hindrance instead of a benefit.