Decoding Midjourney's Latest Office Hours: Personalization, Website Plans & More

Midjourney's team often shares updates on their progress and future plans during their office hours. The session on March 13th gave us some interesting insights into what's coming next, focusing on community features, model improvements, and addressing some challenges.

Connecting with the Community on the Website

A major goal for Midjourney right now is improving communication directly on their website. The plan is to build a central place where users can easily find:

• New feature announcements

• Ways to give feedback

• Opportunities to vote in polls

• A system to report bugs

The team wants to talk *to* the community first, and eventually, build features that allow the community to talk *with* each other on the site.

Making Midjourney More Personal

A significant effort is going into making the Midjourney model more personal for each user. While the exact details are still being worked out internally, the idea centers around using your past interactions.

How it might work:

• It could use your image ranking history.

• It might consider images you've liked.

• Essentially, anything you interact with could shape your personalized model.

There might be options to:

• Set a fixed date for your personalization data.

• Turn the personalization feature on or off.

Based on early tests, this personalization could work like a 'style tuner' feature. You might use a command like `--style [user ID]` and maybe add a date. This suggests the possibility of sharing these personalized tuners with others, which could be a fun way to explore different looks generated by the model.

The lead developer, David, mentioned being happy with the early results and that the personalized images felt different from the standard ones. He even noted it moved away from some typical image styles.

Managing different styles, sharing tuners, and keeping track of your best prompts can become complex quickly. The Midjourney Automation Suite from TitanXT offers tools to help streamline these processes, making it easier to organize your work and experiment with new settings like personalization.

Style, Color, and the Road to Version 7

Midjourney is also exploring ways to improve existing features.

Style Reference

They have a version of the style reference feature that could potentially be released, but they are considering if it can be even better. Balancing resources to improve existing features versus developing new ones is a challenge.

Color Reference

Adding a direct "color reference" feature in the current V6 version is still undecided. This is partly because the team is eager to push towards Midjourney Version 7.

Version 7

David described Version 7 as a much bigger leap forward than the change from V5 to V6. This is a bold statement and has many users excited to see what improvements it will bring.

New Feedback System and Twitter Experiments

A new feedback system is planned that would allow users to provide more detailed input. It might also include some kind of leaderboard function.

Briefly mentioned is a potential Twitter experiment involving a Midjourney bot that could live within Twitter threads. The idea is that users could suggest and create images together directly on the platform.

Dealing with Image Rating Issues and Free Hours

There have been ongoing issues with image ratings being abused by a large group of people. This situation led to Midjourney having to stop giving out the free fast hours as rewards for rating images.

While resources could be used to build anti-bot measures, the team prefers to focus their efforts on developing Version 7 instead. However, the idea of rewarding users with free hours will likely return in some form through a new system in the future.

If you're looking for ways to make your Midjourney workflow more efficient, especially now that free hours for rating are paused, consider exploring automation tools. The Midjourney Automation Suite from TitanXT can help manage your prompting, generating, and organizing, potentially saving you time and standard usage.

Looking Ahead

The recent office hours show Midjourney is focused on building a better community platform, making the model more personalized, refining existing features, and pushing hard towards a significant upgrade in Version 7. Like any development process, there are challenges, such as addressing system abuse, but the overall direction seems positive for the future of the platform.