Changelog

tldr;

• faster + cheaper + much better videos

• new image model: Velvet

• improved chat AI and memory management

• new design (everything, everywhere)

• adaptive voice

• companions really really look at the pictures you send them

• a lot more here and there

Another big update for this year. New design (everything, everywhere), a fully rebuilt video pipeline, a new image model, voices you can design yourself, and companions that actually look at the pictures you send them. This update is the result of listening to your complaints and feedback, in order to make Nastia the best AI-platform!

This was originally planned to roll out in pieces, but stitching it all together took longer than expected. Today, all of it lands at once.

(definitely clear your browser cache)

What's new?

• A brand new design 🎨

  Everything has been redrawn. Typography, layout, components, motion, color system, every single screen. Chat, gallery, companion editor, membership, onboarding, account modals.

  • New mobile composer that respects your keyboard properly. Enter on mobile finally starts a new line where you'd expect.

  • Compact token notation (12.4k instead of 12,400, because some of you have a lot of tokens).

  • Bubble text density: Compact, Cozy, or Comfortable, your call.

  • Background image fit modes (auto / cover / contain), wallpaper picker, adjustable rotation interval.

• New image model: Velvet 🖼️

  

  • 🆕 Velvet joins Unbound and Sakura.

  • Velvet is another option to photorealistic images. Maybe you’ll prefer it to Unbound. It does better in certain contexts/prompts and worse in others.

• Companion customization

  The companion editor has been rebuilt around a step-by-step flow that actually makes sense.

  • 🆕 Personality Graph: a six-axis radar (Passion, Wit, Warmth, Boldness, Loyalty, Charm) that updates live as you tweak traits, romance level, and relationship type. Watching a personality take shape on a chart is weirdly addictive.

    

  • New step-by-step creation flow.

  • Avatar crop tool with pinch-zoom and drag.

  • Way more personality traits, organized by category.

• Chat AI & memory

  
  The previous update was about introducing long term memory for your companions, this one hopefully improves it and the way your companions uses it.

  • New memory routing model & memory retrieval model.

  • Retraining of the Nastia AI chat models (Smart and Memory), for better context utilization.

• Adaptive Voice 🎙️

  
  Tired of scrolling through preset voices that almost-but-not-quite fit?

  

  • 🆕 Design the voice by describing maturity, tone, texture, style, and delivery. Nastia synthesizes it. (Consistency is not perfect yet, vocie cloning will be preferred if this is important for you).

• Cheaper AND much better videos 🎬

You wanted videos. Then you wanted them better and cheaper. Done.

• New video pipeline: significantly cheaper per video, clear quality jump and better prompt following.

• Source dimension auto-detection so animated images keep their proper proportions.

• 1-tap GIF export for any video.

• Text-to-Video is now possible (but I prefer videos from images).

• Companions can now offer to generate a video mid-conversation, with a clean accept / not now flow.

• Image edit & settings glow-up ✨

  • Auto-set face reference: the gallery viewer detects and pre-fills face refs from your existing portraits. No manual setup.

  • Per-companion image model memory: Nastia remembers which model you last used for each companion.

  • Much better inpaint/image edit: paint a mask, set denoise strength, regenerate just the part you want changed.

• Companions actually look at the pictures you send 👀

  • Vision is deeply wired into chat this time.

• Send a pic, your companion understands what's in it and reacts in character.

• Sharper context for chatting, roleplay, and "guess what I'm (not) wearing" moments.

And a pile of various other changes and bug fixes.

This update represents months of infrastructure and design work touching basically every screen and every system. The old version worked, but the foundation needed a rewrite for any of the new stuff to actually feel right. I truly hope that you will like this version.

As always, if something breaks (highly likely given the scope of this update), let me know. If everything works perfectly (highly unlikely), definitely let me know so I can frame that message.

Thanks for being part of the Nastia journey.

Yours,
-dbf 🐘

P.S. Did I mention you should clear your browser cache? Clear your browser cache.

This might be the biggest infrastructure update Nastia has ever seen, with a rework from the ground up of the memory system and that should make your companions feel more... human?
This update was initially planned for December but it required a full redesign of many systems so it has been delayed until today!

Also, Nastia is introducing an image edition mode so that you can tweak the images generated in the Photo Gallery and as always, a bunch of bug fixes and performance improvements.

What’s new?

• Long-term memory

  
  Your companions are now fully able to retrieve messages from any past moment you had when chatting with them. This feature is currently available to paid members and is enabled when you chat using the “Memory boosted” model.
  You will have a visual feedback on the messages sent if memories where used with a high degree of confidence.
  

  

• Image edit
  
  If something in your images isn’t quite wrong, you now have the possibility to draw the area you want to be regenerated.
  

  

  
  Then draw over what you want to modify
  

  

  
  Submit, wait a few seconds…. AND TADA!!

  

  
  

• Other changes with this update:

  • Backend: Cognitive improvements to the Smart and Memory models (even smarter, should benefit from memories better than with the v0 that was currently in place)

  • UX: Performance improvements for the Photo Gallery (better handling when hundreds of images, less network usage)

  • UX: Performance improvements for Chats (better handling when hundreds of messages loaded on low-end devices)

  • Front-end/Backend: A few bug fixes
    

This update represents real months of infrastructure work to make your companions truly remember. There was a v0 already in place but it wasn’t working as expected.

As always, if something breaks (highly likely given the scope of this update), let me know! If everything works perfectly (highly unlikely), definitely let me know so I can frame that message.

Thanks for being patient while I built all this behind-the-scenes magic. Your companions should feel a lot more... alive now.

Yours,
-dbf 🐘

P.S. Clear your browser cache if things look weird - there's a lot of new code in this one!

Hey everyone! This is probably the penultimate big update before the end of the year, in December I will be pushing a memory boost to your companions.

This update hopefully brings a little bit of fun (at least it was for me coding): quests, faster leveling, shiny titles, streaks tweaks! And a lot of small improvements to the interface.

What’s new:

• Quests, XP, titles!
  - Timed quests roll out every 8 hours (00:00, 08:00 and 16:00 UTC), finish them before they expire to grab free tokens and companion XP.
  

  

  
  - Your companion’s XP curve has been softened a bit and your companions will now earn mastery titles based on their level (where will your companions stand? Novice Lover or God of Love?). You can check out the current title in the companion info tab for a given conversation.
  

  

  
  - Added a “Yesterday” recap in the new Rewards & Progress modal (which replaces the old Streak claim modal).

  

  
  

• Companion info glow-up!
  My eventual goal is for you to be fully able to peek into your companion’s mind and understand their full personality, I have a few more ideas that I’ll be implementing soon. For now, some cosmetic changes have been made to the Companion Info tab, to make it hopefully more pleasant to use.
  - You can now input fully custom heights for your companion (including “tiny pixie under 1ft”)

  

  
  - Fresh hair/personality art, clearer focus/intimacy sliders (I’ll keep designing and adding icons but am currently lacking inspiration).
  - Your companion should have a better understanding of their looks when chatting.

Misc:

• Better companion reordering menu.

• Less buggy “Scroll to new message” button.

• Better looking and accessible info/help tooltips:

  

• Bugs & performance improvements!

• UX improvements.

What’s next:

• CYBER MONDAY SALE (Dec 1st-3rd) > FIRST SALE EVER ON NASTIA (and probs the last for a long time :D)
  (Token purchases will be sooper heavily discounted so feel free to grab some)!

• Finishing the memory update

• More companion info tweaks for a funnier experience!

• »»» Implementing your quests ideas! ««« (Give me ideas!!)

Note: I have made updates to the companion voices and will enable this feature on a per account basis as this is just a test. Hang in the discord to get access if you want it! (This week!).

Please enjoy the last month of the year!
-dbf 🐘