AI generated avatars

wandatts
July 24, 2025
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    Sponsor
    July 24, 2025, 9:47 p.m.
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    Hey,

    I am loving the software so far, really great work to all of the team!

    I see that there is a button to randomly generate avatars which I assume just take the first initial of your username and uses that.

    I was thinking. What about allowing the user (with the help of AI) to generate their own random avatars with a prompt they choose to use? I am unsure of the intricacies or if this is even possible. I am newish to the dev world and to Misago. I know that a lot of python is involved with LLM so this might be a feasible option? I would love to develop this myself as plugin but I have not got the skills to do such a thing and I think it'll make a great addition to the software!

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    Project Lead
    July 24, 2025, 10:37 p.m.
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    Sounds like a plugin material to me. Problem with running model on premises is that it takes a lot of resources, making it unsuitable for making it part of software.

    Besides, I am not fan on AI being trained on data scrapped from internet against artists will.

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    Sponsor
    July 25, 2025, 9:33 a.m.
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    I must admit, I never considered how AI is used to generate images so thank you for that. I will revisit this once I believe I have the skills to build such a plugin and see if there is a way to go about developing the plugin, only if there is such a way where the artists are credited however they wish. It sounds silly but thanks for letting me know that, I am new to AI and it never crossed my mind!

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    Project Lead
    July 25, 2025, 11:29 a.m.
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    Discourse has an AI addon for moderation/summaries/recommendations/etc. and it requires an instance with Nvidia GPU to run, which costs hundreds of dollars monthly if you want to self-host it. Far cry from their usual "$5/mo to run the forum only".

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    Members 161 posts
    July 26, 2025, 12:22 a.m.
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    I'm not a fan of AI, both from a resource perspective, but also for the same reason as @rafalp. I very much like misago because it's not like discourse.

    Clean, reasonably resource friendly, good service stack, easy to manage, self contained, not overly dependent on other services (like email or AI). I've been running a forum since the last century, and clean and simple (relatively) pays off in the long term.

    The extensive work being done towards a functional core, with the option of plugins, will give utility to misago for years to come. Personally I'd like to ultimately integrate xmpp to replace email and provide an independent chat function, possibly with auth and xmpp based posting.... But this is personal unachievable dream stuff, and definitely should be plugin only.

    Perhaps the only extra thing I'd like to see in core is light/dark theme support.

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    Sponsor
    July 26, 2025, 4:48 p.m.
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    Yeah, totally agree with you. I'm learning a lot and I've only been here five minutes!

    I agree, the ease of use is one of the reasons that I have chosen to use this software opposed to the others out there. Plug and play. The software looks the part too. I had a look at some of the others that have also been around for a long time and they look out-dated.

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    Project Lead
    July 26, 2025, 5:39 p.m.
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    My attitude to Misago these days is "conventional forum software is fine, its the outdated UI and bad mobile support that scares away the users". If I was to come up with a marketing slogan, I would probably go with "a forum software that won't piss off your users after you migrate from phpBB3 to it."

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    Sponsor
    July 26, 2025, 6:06 p.m.
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    I have no idea how people use that forum software when it's so outdated. When I was considering a software to use, I was over the moon when I found Misago - for all the reasons stated above. I think that would be a neat marketing slogan, it's true and honest. Maybe you could host a competition for the neatest slogan?! There are tons of creative people on here, maybe they can win a free copy of Misago... ;)

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    Project Lead
    July 27, 2025, 2:48 a.m.
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    phpBB3 architecture was... specific. But guys who wrote it had and still have top-notch knowledge of how to write a forum software that scales I can't speak about Flarum, but to this day phpBB3 is most performant PHP open source forum solution out there (except maybe FluxBB but it has quarter features of phpBB3).

    As for slogan, I dunno, maybe in future ;)