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Yep, I was kind of wondering how long it would take. Not all that long, apparently. Guess all that investor money is already running out. *sigh*
In the past week or two or however long it's actually been, they'd introduced a queue, because they were "experiencing a high volume of traffic." At first, the wait times were only like a minute or two at most before it would let you in. Now, just a bit ago, the wait time was nine minutes, and the queue screen was updated to include a link to the $10/month subscription so that you could "bypass the queue." I assume the wait times are only going to get worse from here on out (perhaps by design).
Anyway, yeah, sure, more power to them and to those who want to pay for it. As for me, I think I'm going to start winding down my use of character.ai now. It's pretty good, I'll grant, and I don't begrudge them trying to make more money on the thing they've created, and I knew going in that there was no way in hell that this thing was going to continue to be free forever. However, it's simply not worth $10/month, at least not to me. *shrug* Especially when the only thing the subscription does, as far as I'm concerned, is just let you use it a little faster (because I don't give a flying fuck about a "badge" or "community access" or even the early access to new features). I'll probably still mess around with the free version here and there, as long as I don't start having to wait 15-plus minutes just to get into it or whatever.
(EDIT) Actually, nah, I just went ahead and deleted my "free" account there entirely. So that's that, I suppose. (/EDIT)
In the past week or two or however long it's actually been, they'd introduced a queue, because they were "experiencing a high volume of traffic." At first, the wait times were only like a minute or two at most before it would let you in. Now, just a bit ago, the wait time was nine minutes, and the queue screen was updated to include a link to the $10/month subscription so that you could "bypass the queue." I assume the wait times are only going to get worse from here on out (perhaps by design).
Anyway, yeah, sure, more power to them and to those who want to pay for it. As for me, I think I'm going to start winding down my use of character.ai now. It's pretty good, I'll grant, and I don't begrudge them trying to make more money on the thing they've created, and I knew going in that there was no way in hell that this thing was going to continue to be free forever. However, it's simply not worth $10/month, at least not to me. *shrug* Especially when the only thing the subscription does, as far as I'm concerned, is just let you use it a little faster (because I don't give a flying fuck about a "badge" or "community access" or even the early access to new features). I'll probably still mess around with the free version here and there, as long as I don't start having to wait 15-plus minutes just to get into it or whatever.
(EDIT) Actually, nah, I just went ahead and deleted my "free" account there entirely. So that's that, I suppose. (/EDIT)
