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Does anyone know roughly how often the public retail chatbots are being retrained or updated from the Internet by the AI companies? How often from Reddit?

Everyone talks about memory when it comes to AI companions (and honestly, it’s probably one of the biggest factors), but I think the small details are just as important.

Things like knowing when I’m joking, picking up on a change in mood, remembering small preferences, or understanding when I just want to talk instead of getting advice can completely change the feeling of a conversation.

I’ve been trying LustCrush recently, and one thing I noticed is that it’s often the little moments that make an AI companion feel more natural. It’s not just about having more features–it’s about how the character responds and whether the interaction feels consistent over time.

What’s one small thing you wish AI companions could do better? Something that seems minor, but would actually make the experience feel much more real?

Tl;dr: This platform changed paid subscription benefits without notice, charged me after I canceled, did not respond when I tried to resolve the situation directly, and I had to launch a bank dispute to get the refund I was owed.

(Also, I know this is a long post, but a lot of concerning stuff happened.)

Hey all,

I’m posting this review as a former Storychat user who liked some of the features but was ultimately driven off the platform because of pretty messed up business practices…I wanted to write this as a cautionary note for anyone considering a paid subscription on their site.

Storychat staff approached me early this year back when I was looking through subreddits for the right chat app for my long-form RPs, so I gave it a shot. At first, things were fine. The staff was friendly, and the features were enjoyable: lorebooks, long memory, high character limits for persona/character profiles, etc. But then they crossed boundaries that ultimately resulted in me deleting my account and going elsewhere.

1. My subscription was changed without warning

   I was a Gold subscriber. Benefits included 50k character and persona profile limits, 1.5k personas, and all of the stuff you see here on their June 13th blog post advertising their subscription levels:

Storychat’s June blog post with an image of the original membership benefits

Then on July 28th, I logged in and suddenly, the subscription level was gutted overnight without notice or warning…I was limited to 50 personas, an 8k persona profile character limit, and a “weekly usage allowance” with a memory/token usage meter. Here’s what Gold offers now:

Current Subscription Plans

There was NO announcement whatsoever. I detail that in my own post here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/storychat/comments/1v83u3r/gold_subscription_was_gutted_overnight_with_no/

The founders, Albert (Feeling-Being-8130) and Jack (Opening-Accident7288) (who already publicly identified themselves by name on Reddit), responded quickly to user backlash. They admitted to reducing plan benefits without informing paying users, and promised to give better transparency/advanced notice of updates going forward:

https://www.reddit.com/r/storychat/comments/1v8mvgq/sorry_we_messed_up_this_roll_out_but_we_will_do/

I honestly believed them because they seemed earnest, and they did eventually roll back a couple of the abrupt changes in response to users’ feedback….but then things got a lot worse.

1. The founders’ request

The founders invited me into a private Reddit group chat to give more feedback on their rollout. During that conversation, Jack asked if I’d be open to creating user-facing content to explain their system to other users:

Screenshot of that snippet

I was already paying Storychat $25/month, and now I was being asked whether I would help explain their product to other customers without compensation. They offered to put a Gold subscription on a dummy account for seven days so I could use Storychat normally for a week. They said they were testing a new token/usage allowance and wanted my feedback on whether it felt reasonable.

Screenshot of that snippet

I was open to it until I figured out that the supposedly proposed/new allowance I thought I would be testing was already the allowance they had silently pushed onto users July 28th. Storychat admitted their communication had been “inconsistent.”

Screenshots of me questioning their wording and of them acknowledging their inconsistency.

It kind of sat weird with me, but I still wanted to see the platform do well because its features had potential. I told them I was happy to give normal feedback because I liked the platform, but I wasn’t comfortable paying for Gold while also setting aside a week to seriously test an unfinished system and potentially help explain that system to other customers. Jack acknowledged my concerns and offered me one complimentary month of Gold on my main account in recognition of the testing and detailed feedback I had already provided.

So I accepted the 1 month of Gold on my main account, and the 1 week of Gold on a dummy account to help with testing. That agreement was made on July 30th. Keep that in mind.

1. Another update dropped with no warning after that public apology and promise to notify users of updates in advance

Remember the whole public apology about communicating better? So….this past weekend, another Storychat update was apparently coming.

I only knew by chance when I clicked on one user’s bug report on their Discord where Albert told that specific user they were going to try to fix their issue in the “next launch this weekend.” Then the site started breaking over the weekend. People reported login problems, characters and profiles not loading, settings reverting, and other weird behavior. It was chaotic, and still there was no update or announcement.

One Discord report was literally titled:

“I think you may have been hacked.”

A moderator responding there didn’t seem to have clear information either and basically guessed that the website might be under maintenance. Meanwhile, the founders started answering individual users on Reddit and explaining that there was a bug connected to the new version.

Later Albert also responded to that Discord thread and said Storychat had experienced a sudden surge of users over the weekend.

So…information existed. But it was not put somewhere obvious for everyone to see it.

Which was pretty frustrating, considering Storychat had just publicly apologized for poor communication and promised real advance notice.

I just thought it was kind of ironic that they use their blog to criticize other platforms for lack of transparency instead of keeping their users informed of site updates:

Storychat’s blog

If you’re going to publicly critique other platforms for bad updates, pricing changes, memory problems, and not listening to users, you really need to have your own house in order.

1. Money was taken from me after I canceled my membership

So…going back to point 2, the founders told me to cancel my current subscription (which I’d told them was going to end on August 5th). On July 30th, I did exactly that and told them. They confirmed. Then on August 6th, I see an August 5th charge of $25 for another month of Gold, despite the fact that I canceled on July 30th…I reached out to them in our existing Reddit conversation asking them to confirm:

1. A refund of the $24.99 charge that happened after I canceled.
2. The complimentary month of Gold on my main account that had already been offered.
3. The seven days of Gold on the second account that had been discussed for testing.

I never heard from them again. Here’s the convo snippet of me confirming the cancellation, asking them to reverse the wrongful charge/asking them to follow through on their promises.

I gave them 24 hours to get back to me, then I followed up with my bank to dispute the charge.

What’s worse is that both founders have been replying to other Storychat users on Reddit and Discord over the past five days, while my DM continued to collect cobwebs.

I just got notice that Storychat issued my $25 refund after I submitted my bank dispute. But it shouldn’t have gone that far. There were platform bugs over the weekend, but if they had time to still respond to other users, they had the time to shoot me a quick message saying “we got your note” or “we’re on it.” To not respond for 5 days to a wrongful charge and to ghost on membership promises is unacceptable.

So yeah…no follow-through on the things that were promised. I deleted my account. The platform had a lot of potential. I just stopped trusting them after the terrible way I was treated. And after months of giving them chances, that was enough for me.

So, while Storychat does have some nice features, I would be very cautious about trusting them with your money.

So I spent 15 minutes chatting on AnonChat thinking I was talking to a regular Indian user.

What blew me away was how insanely proficient it was at Hinglish. It was using casual slang completely naturally, which totally threw me off guard and made me lower my defense.

But then I caught the dead giveaway: it strictly cannot double-text.

No matter what you type, the bot only responds in a strict 1:1 ping-pong fashion. It never sends a follow-up message, corrects a typo, or double-texts on its own. And the bots use female name and mannerism (something i find to be quite interesting).Since there’s no login or phone verification required, the site is likely using Hinglish-prompted LLM bots to keep queue times short.

I want to experience the cai plus but i have no money to spend on it so i was hoping to know if there are other chat ai that have the premium features in the basic package

If there was just one thing you could share to someone who is just learning AI chatbots to save them frustration, what would it be?

I’m into ai girlfriend apps a lot and I’ve tried a few till now and had a really good experience but I wanna know if you’ve used something with great memory, voice messages(voice cloning), and decent images. It shouldn’t be too expensive because then I’ll not be able to use it. I’ve tried kindroid, secret desires, candy, and nomi yet. Didn’t like nomi that much due to high restrictions.

I know there are many apps that have much better features. Share some good recommendations please.

Here is the link to chat gpts response https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/s/Y4S78cHBaM

Today I asked Claude the same question :

I’m curious. Let’s say I’m a new user of Claude. What would you tell them if you, if I were to ask or they were to ask, what do you do best? What is, what of all the things an AI bot can do, does Claude do the best?

The answer

Four things, ranked by how much daylight there is between Claude and the rest:
1. Writing and editing that still sounds like you. Most models sand your voice down into LinkedIn-speak. Claude will make the smallest change that fixes the problem and leave a strong sentence alone if you tell it to. This is the single biggest practical gap.
2. Long, messy documents. Big context window plus good retention — you can drop in a 100-page contract, patent, or transcript and ask about page 3 versus page 87 without it losing the thread or quietly inventing a detail.
3. Coding, especially multi-file work. Claude Code is the flagship product for a reason — real refactors across a repo, not just snippets.
4. Following complicated, layered instructions. A long list of rules like yours actually holds across a conversation instead of decaying after three turns.
Where it’s not the best: no image, video, or audio generation. Search is competent but not the specialty. And it’s chattier by default than you probably want — which is why custom instructions matter more here than elsewhere.

What do you guys think of this answer , and if you looked at the other post when I asked chat gpt do you think it was better or worse? I love to ask chat bots questions about how they think they relate to the world .

I’m still new to the whole AI chat bot thing. I was first introduced to Janitor AI by a friend. I love the site, but I feel like the memory is too short.

Are there any alternatives that are similar to Janitor AI but are better? Stuff like being free, offer similar variety for characters (mainly furries), also allow NSFW, and has better memory?

Also, I suck at managing technology. So I would prefer simple settings and management.