r/FiggsAI

Hello figglings! The waiting is finally over...

Today we are very excited to share with you our newest, and your most requested feature - Multiplayer! (which is like "rooms", but 1000x times better 😉).

We know it took some time but we really wanted to not rush with this and to ensure that we meet all your needs and expectations. (Oh, and it was pretty hard tech-wise 😅). Note that we still decided to tag this feature as "Beta" because, as always, there might be some issues in the beginning - mainly regarding the models (AI in group chatting is an unsolved research problem in general). So you can probably find general confusing responses if you really look for them, but we will continue to improve those as much as possible and to add more necessary features (like identities, deleting rooms etc)

So without further ado... in Multiplayer you can:

1. Create Rooms for you and multiple figgs (up to 4!). You can decide which figg sends a message when, so you can basically decide to have the figgs talk to themselves for an entire conversation, ask one specific figg or more to answer your message or anything else. Just press the image of the figg you want to respond

2. Add (real human) friends to the Room (up to 3!), meaning you can have a huge 8 people (4 figgs, 4 humans) chat. Everyone see what happens live and can write messages in parallel. Just like Whatsapp or iMessage. Cool!

3. And maybe even more cooler, you can Publicize your rooms so everyone can see them**,** and you can join other Public Rooms (in read-only mode). So you can basically watch other users chat live!! (or in retrospect) like a livestream on twitch or youtube 😱 We know not every chat is suitable for publicizing... but we are already looking to see and read some creative and interesting ones you will come up with. Feel free to invite others (by sharing a link) to watch you chat or join you. It can be fun!

So that's all for today! We are super looking forward to hear what you think, to see your public chats, to join you to a conversation or anything else. As we said - we will also continue to improve this feature and add to it (tell us if you have any ideas!) along the way.

Thank you all for suggesting ideas and special thanks for our moderators who have been testing Multiplayer over the past day. Have a great day everyone, and happy chatting! 🥳🙌

Greetings figglings!

I haven’t made an announcement in a while because, honestly there hasn’t been much to announce. The devs have made a few announcements over the past weeks regarding several new features and efforts, but when it comes to the model tuning/testing, there hasn’t been much news for the community or for us mods in private.

The few times they’ve been able to reach out to us has been for quick checkins, but mostly the sentiment repeated a few times has been, “Sorry we haven’t been available more lately, been really busy.”

So, yeah, they’ve pretty much been focused on working to keep releasing/refining the new features while the majority of the dev team continues on the models (which I can say because they previously informed us that there’s basically 80% of the team who work on the ai stuff while the rest work on… the rest. Because the LLM work is so complex and time consuming, it takes long, while the UI and feature stuff is shorter to release and refine).

Anyway, if you wish to check it out for more of my explanations (and maybe wildly inaccurate speculations 😅). Hope it can be helpful for some of you.

Apologies for everyone feeling the Figgs.ai growing pains. The struggle is definitely real and I very much thank you all for hangin’ tough and continuing to give your support to this wonderful site. 💪