Image was generated in Civitai on-site, edited using multiple tools.

Introduction + Thanks For the 100+ Follows

Hello, been a while since I published the previous article. It has been a interesting month to say the least. Around two weeks ago, I have reached 100 followers, and a few more have been added in the recent days. I would like to thank you all for following me in this journey, in the ups and downs of it.

Essential Tool For Images Generated Offline

As we know that the last major update has changed how we use generators, some people who generate locally aren't fully out of the woods from limitations. Participating in bounties are still limited because images in these entries need metadata, and Civitai isn't able to read metadata from all local generation apps out there. I have spent days trying to figure out how to get metadata readable on my images generated locally. This was until I randomly came across this, the AI Image Metadata Editor by Xypher. This tool has became a requirement when generating images in submitting them as entries for NSFW bounties as images in entries need metadata. Without it, participating in NSFW bounties is impossible without paying yellow buzz. I suggest giving this tool a try if you generate images locally and post them to Civitai: https://civitai.com/models/661484/ai-image-metadata-editor.

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Concerns About This Site's Future

When I published my recent article around a month ago, I was pretty mad about the lack of quality of life features to help users use this site more easily. I've definitely been more calmer now since then, but I can't help but wonder the longevity of this site when there's generally negative sentiment coming from users (this is especially visible with Civitai's official 3rd birthday announcement), a chunk of users leaving the site, and the site still having performance and loading issues even with a lower user count than before (the Cloudflare outage was also an issue too). In addition, according to this article (https://civitai.com/articles/22751/feedbackfeature-suggestion-section-will-be-retiring-shortly), they will do away with feature suggestion, so trying to request a feature will eventually be useless.

Users are also experiencing a stricter moderation system from what I've been seeing. Oddly enough, I was not affected by this until a few days ago. One of my images that I had posted was removed by the moderation system, it was just two feral canines making love at a swimming pool on a romantic night. Also, when I was generating SFW images, I got hit with the yellow buzz paywall.

I personally don't really know if the moderation system is getting worse since I use the on-site generator less frequent now, but this can be a problem for anyone.

Less Reactions On Images, Change Of Content?

With the infamous update, I've been seeing a significant decrease on the images that I posted. Images before can easily get 5 reactions in a small amount of time. Now, there are times that images struggle to even get one reaction. I'm aware that not everyone here is affected by this due to certain demographics (I forgot the percentage drop in users on this site, but I think or recall that there was a comment on an article that stated something about it), but it makes me question if I'm more affected to the drop in users than others (theoretically saying that the majority of users that left were there for furry-related content). It also makes me wonder if I should add more variety in content. Maybe some suggestions here?

What About The Yellow Buzz?

Since I'm capable of generating images locally (besides videos), I don't need the yellow buzz as much as some others do. With a growing amount of users needing them, I have thought of some ways to do it:

1. Subsidy system of giving out a certain amount of yellow buzz

2. SFW bounty for anyone to join and to potentially win yellow buzz

3. LoRA request to a creator that needs yellow buzz that needs them

If you have any other ideas, drop them in the comments section below, I'll see if I can consider them as well.

Conclusion

That pretty much concludes everything that I wanted to say in this article (hopefully didn't missed anything here). Thank you for taking the time to read this article, and absolutely a huge thanks to the followers. Again, if you have any suggestions for me to consider when it comes to the content that I do or in terms of yellow buzz, don't hesitate to put them in the comment section below this article. I'll see you then.