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Greetings, Civitans! Welcome to the forty-third edition of Civitai Biweekly, your essential guide to all recent developments and updates within Civitai.

This week, we’ll cover some extremely exciting new Civitai & Generative AI developments, including…

• Stable Diffusion 3.5 Released! 🖌️

• Still time to win big in The Great Halloween Contest! 🎃

• The fight against SPAM! 🗑️

• New, streamlined, Announcements! 🔊

• API Partner Services, coming soon! 🤝

• Support Ticket Milestone! 🎉

…and more!

1️⃣ Stable Diffusion 3.5 Released!

Stability AI has launched the Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large and Turbo models, in what looks like a significant improvement over the problematic SD 3 release. Early feedback from the community has been cautiously positive, and these new models are already generating chatter. It's still early days, but this is definitely a release to keep an eye on!

Don't miss our Guide to Getting Started with Stable Diffusion 3.5 to dive right in!

2️⃣ The Great Halloween Contest Continues! 🎃

You have until the end of October to submit up to 20 terrifying images across our 5 spooky categories, or contribute any number of Halloween-themed resources. With huge Buzz prizes up for grabs, now’s the time to showcase your creativity!

Read on for details on how to enter and win!

3️⃣ New Anti-Spam Measures

We were inundated with a deluge of spam comments this week, but we’ve taken drastic measures to stem the tide - and they’re working! We’ve already seen a huge reduction in spam across the platform, all while keeping the impact on legitimate users to a minimum.

Curious about the steps we’ve taken? Check out our full article to learn more about what we’re doing and how you can help keep our community spam-free!

4️⃣ New Announcement System

We’ve streamlined our on-site Announcement System by ditching the old big, blocky boxes that cluttered your screen (and covered up the navigation!). In their place, we’ve introduced a sleek, single-view system that’s less intrusive and more user-friendly. Plus, you can easily view the history of past announcements from a dedicated tab in the Notification menu!

5️⃣ API Partner Services

We’re thrilled to announce the upcoming launch of our first API Partner Services on Civitai! The Dev team is hard at work building an interface that will soon allow you to upscale with Magnific, create image-to-video with Kling, and generate stunning visuals using Ideogram 2.0 - all directly from the site!

And this is just the beginning! We’ve got even more exciting collaborations in the pipeline, so be sure to keep an eye out for future announcements!

6️⃣ 10,000 Support Tickets Resolved

Our dedicated Support Agents have hit a major milestone, resolving 10,000 tickets since July! 🎉 A huge shoutout to Joey and Jane for their hard work and dedication in keeping everything running smoothly. Their commitment to helping our community is unmatched, and we couldn’t do it without them!

🎃 The Great Halloween Contest 🎃

The Great Halloween Contest is upon us! Unleash your creativity and conjure up some Halloween magic in your image generation. Whether it’s spooky landscapes, bewitching characters, or eerie pumpkin displays, this contest is all about capturing the Halloween spirit! 👻

📖 Text-Tacular Showdown Contest 📖

The Text-Tacular Showdown has officially drawn to a close and entered the judging phase - but we’re a little behind in announcing the results! We’ll have the winners ready to announce as soon as possible!

A huge thank you to everyone who participated - we received some of the funniest and most creative images we’ve ever seen in a Civitai contest!

Stay tuned for the results, and in the meantime check out all the fabulous entries!

New Guides!

Getting Started with Stable Diffusion 3.5

Get started with SD 3.5 with our Quickstart Guide! All the models, files, and workflows you need to generate your first SD 3.5 images, within!

Whether you're just beginning your Generative AI Art journey or you're already a seasoned pro, the Civitai Education Hub is your go-to destination for top-tier educational content - https://education.civitai.com 

Crummy Costume Crafter - LoRA for Flux

No Halloween costume yet? Fear not, grab a cereal box & trash bag, and get crafting! But before you start gluing, mock up your creation with Kftiger’s exceptional Crummy Costume Crafter LoRA for Flux!

Wizard’s Grimdark: The Grit - LoRA for Flux

Creator WizardWhiteBeard shows his dark side with The Grit, LoRA for Flux. Dark, gritty, grainy, goodness.

• Models Uploaded: 22k

• Images & Videos Uploaded: 2.3M

• Reviews: 782k

• Comments: 38k (excluding spam!)

• Image Reactions: 12M (not that anyone could see them - issue resolved now!)

• New Users: 160k (excluding bots!)

• Support Tickets Resolved: 1,068

• Monty Python “Spam” jokes resisted: 39

Changelog

You may not be aware that Civitai is an Open-Source project, and you can - should you wish - review all of our 12,000+ commits on the Civitai Github!

For a more condensed and curated view, check out our Changelog! Updated regularly throughout the month with the most relevant major and minor changes, it’s the perfect way to stay informed on all the important updates and improvements happening week by week.

Visit the Civitai Changelog

Want to connect directly with the Civitai team, learn more about our platform, or gain insights from leading experts in Generative AI?

📅 Check out our Twitch streaming schedule and mark your calendar! In addition to our regularly scheduled Office Hours and AI Video streams, we have some thrilling, must-see events lined up that you won't want to miss!

We look forward to seeing you there!

Newsletter Buzz Reward

Thanks for sticking with us all the way to the end! Here’s your well-earned Newsletter Buzz ⚡(Yellow Buzz, too!) - consider it a ‘thank you’ for being a valued, informed, member of the Civitai community!