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Character Tavern

Changelog

What I've been building

Every update to Character Tavern, written as it ships. Big launches, small fixes, and the occasional thing you asked for on Discord.

Written by Sal

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  1. Latest Chat

    Your stories have a difficulty setting now

    Writing Style now sets how often what you try works out, and whether the world waits for your next move. Nightmare is accurately named.

    New

    • Writing Style has a Difficulty setting with four steps: Forgiving, Fair, Harsh, and Nightmare.
    • Story drive offers You lead, where the world waits for your moves, or Living world, where people and events move without you.
    • Under Content warnings in the Studio, an advisory AI suggestion shows which warnings your definition seems to need.

    Improved

    • What you try in a story succeeds as often as your Difficulty allows.
    • Quill writes and labels cards by the Prohibited Content Guide.
    • The Prohibited Content Guide has a new layout that reads well on a phone, with each rule split into Prohibited and Allowed.
    • The Strike System section says each strike expires one year after it's given.
  2. Chat

    Summaries got a proper editor

    You can edit a chat summary right in Memory Settings, and pop it out fullscreen when it gets long. Mine always get long.

    New

    • The expand button next to Summary opens it in a fullscreen editor.

    Improved

    • A Summary Not in Your Prompt notice tells you when your custom prompt leaves the summary out, and how to fix it.
    • Memory Settings asks before closing with unsaved changes.
  3. Chat

    Thinking models stop ghosting you

    Some models spent the whole reply budget thinking and answered with nothing, which I find relatable. It happens less now, and when it does, you get an explanation instead of a blank reply, and it doesn't use Puni.

    Improved

    • A reply that comes back empty doesn't use Puni.

    Fixed

    • When thinking uses up the reply budget, the chat says so and suggests raising Max Tokens, turning on Smart Limit, or setting Reasoning Effort to None.
    • Reasoning Effort on Auto leaves room for thinking, so replies get cut short less often.
    • Improve Message only fixes typos now, instead of rewriting what you wrote.
  4. Account

    Puni and your daily allowance, side by side

    Your Puni and your free daily allowance now live in one dialog, right in the account menu.

    New

    • The Puni dialog shows your Puni with your free daily allowance right next to it.
  5. Studio

    Write your characters with Quill

    Quill is an AI co-writer you can talk to while you build a character, with its edits appearing right in the Studio.

    New

    • Write with Quill opens a conversation beside your character editor for brainstorming, drafting, and revising a card.
    • Quill can edit definitions, greetings, page details, and lorebook entries, with a record of what each turn changed and an option to revert it.
    • The panel shows Quill's activity, your Puni, and how much Puni each message uses.

    Improved

    • If you edit a field while Quill is working on it, you choose how to resolve the conflicting changes.
    • Luna 2 is the default, and the model picker offers three more, including Nami and Nyx.
    • Start over asks for confirmation and keeps the card you have written.

    Fixed

    • An oversized request asks you to try a smaller part instead of incorrectly telling you to restart the whole conversation.
  6. Chat

    Pick how your story is written

    Writing Style is in Experiments: choose how a reply reads without writing a whole prompt yourself. Naturally, there is also somewhere to write a whole prompt yourself.

    New

    • Writing Style offers presets including Cinematic, Dialogue First, Novel, Grimdark, Cozy, Horror, and Slow Burn.
    • You can adjust Perspective, Tense, Narrator, Register, Tone, Dialogue, Length, and Markup separately.
    • Additional Instructions adds your own rules, while Custom prompt replaces the system prompt entirely.
    • Custom prompts have a fullscreen editor and a preview using the current chat's card, persona, summary, and lore, with missing macros pointed out.
    • Smarter Auto Reasoning in Experiments lets the model use its own default reasoning when Reasoning Effort is Auto.
    • Tags now have browsable pages with character listings and related tags, linked from the homepage and character pages.
    • A new Premium model joins the model picker.

    Improved

    • Umi 3 Plus has been retired from the model picker.
    • Writing Style manages Response Length and Smart Limit while enabled, and warns that some models lose their usual prompt.
  7. Chat

    Keep your chat settings and your edits

    I made Card Settings save your changes together and added a backup for your chat's look. There are enough settings now that remembering them is no longer a reasonable hobby.

    New

    • Backup in UI Settings exports and imports your settings as a JSON file, including this device's appearance settings but excluding background images.
    • Improve Message has an Undo action that restores what you had written.
    • You can turn off low Puni warnings in chat settings.

    Improved

    • Save Changes saves the character fields and alternative greetings together, and closing with unsaved edits asks before discarding them.
    • Importing greetings from the original card adds the missing ones to your draft without throwing away your edits.
    • Card Settings shows token estimates.
    • When a newer card version is available, Card Settings shows the update button outright and notes that updating replaces your edits.

    Fixed

    • Reset to original restores greetings as well as the card fields.
  8. Chat

    More control over replies and swipes

    I rebuilt the message layout and gave editing, swiping, and deleting a clearer place to live. My housekeeping is mostly confined to fictional conversations.

    New

    • You can delete just one message, everything from that message onward, or an individual swipe while keeping another reply.
    • Find and replace is available inside the message editor, and Ctrl+F searches the message you are editing.
    • Unsent messages are saved separately for each chat in your browser and restored after a refresh or a chat switch.

    Improved

    • Messages keep the character portrait beside the text, with Copy, Edit, Info, and Delete available from the message actions.
    • Swipe controls stay within reach on long replies, and moving forward past the last swipe generates another.
    • Chat search highlights matching words inside message bubbles.
    • New replies show typing dots immediately, stream reasoning in a Thinking box, and offer Retry inline when generation fails.

    Fixed

    • An interrupted stream keeps the partial reply and releases the input instead of leaving the chat stuck on writing.
    • Paragraphs and dialogue colors stay consistent across blank lines.
    • Page translation no longer freezes the swipe counter.
  9. Catalog

    Find more from your favorite creators

    Creator profiles let you search a creator's characters now, instead of scrolling through the whole collection. CT also got a new logo while I was in there.

    New

    • A creator's characters can be sorted by Newest, Most popular, or Name.
    • New & Noteworthy in the catalog highlights popular cards created within the last seven days.

    Improved

    • Creator profiles have a new header, featured characters, and a searchable, paginated character collection.
    • Best uses engagement as a ranking signal while keeping search relevance first.
    • Most liked is now called Top rated.
    • CT has a new logo and animated wordmark, with the name visible on phones too.
  10. Library

    Your chats and creations, under one roof

    My Chats, Likes & Dislikes, and Created now share one rebuilt Library, with collections you can filter without leaving the page. One place to find things, which is a system I should try elsewhere.

    New

    • Created brings your published and private characters into the Library, with search and visibility filters.
    • Chat History has paginated search, favorites, renaming, deletion, and message previews.
    • Nami 4.1, Luna 2, Mei 3 Flash, and Mei 3 Pro join the chat model picker.

    Improved

    • The Library has search, sorting, pagination, and collection filters above the card grid.
    • A card's menu lets you start a new chat, open Chat History, visit its page, or change your reaction.
    • Aurora and Yume Mini have been removed from the model picker.

    Fixed

    • Library pagination stays in the URL.
    • Folder dialogs restore their values when reopened.
    • Studio drafts work while editing an existing character and keep track of which card you are editing.