Poll Results

And the winner is drum roll... Number 7 crowd roars.

There weren't many votes (maybe we'll have to make a way to poll on the site soon), but we did get a clear winner this time. Some notes about the model that won:

• It's called Dolphin3
• It's a retrained model based on Meta's open source Llama3.1 model
• Dolphin's claim to fame is that it is mostly unhinged and lacks normal AI content moderation guardrails that will keep it from acting or regurgitating information in certain ways deemed insensitive or controversial
• Tied for second we had Llama3.1 itself, and Google's newest open-source model Gemma3 (what powers Gemini)

I've been testing Ceridwen in the backend on my workstation's 4070 TI Super with an Llama3.1 as a stand in. Progress is in fact progressing, but unfortunately Ceridwen won't have a 4070 TI Super to run on in production. Instead, she'll have to make do with a measly GTX 1080TI (I am in fact not made of money, and I wasn't lying a couple of weeks ago about not having access to a 5090). We'll see if the update next week includes a bit more of the architecture of the service. Morally, I think it's important for there to be a reference of how Ceridwen works, so she can't be seen as truly mystic or be used to trick anyone 😛

Updates and Bugs

Remembered Devices

You might have noticed a new button on your Account page that says, "Remembered Devices." One of the biggest asks I've gotten since launch is to make it so that users don't have to sign in every time they want to play Tudle. This feature is a direct response to that request. If you press that button, you'll get a form that will allow your device to be remembered and not require signing in. If you do logout manually (as opposed to just closing the tab), you will have to sign in again. But upon signing in again, then you will be remembered automatically without needing to go back through the menu. If this is all a bit confusing just... go try the feature out for yourself. You'll get the hang of it, I think.

This took a bit of finagling to get right, so while the implementation might change, and the UI might get updated, I think the feature is here to stay.

A side note: this feature works by using cookies (no, there's no tracking cookies in this), so if you have very strict safety settings or cookies turned off on your browser it will fail to work.

Redirects

You also may have noticed that when you log in after trying to access Tudle, you're taken directly to the application upon logging in instead of the Account page. Redirects are here woot woot.

Another note: this feature also only works using cookies, so if you have strict settings on it might not work, and you'll be redirected to the homepage

Tudle Game Start Bug

We did have one bug report worth mentioning. Tudle draws a new word at midnight Pacific Time each day, but on July 1st, Tudle didn't seem to draw a new word, and that morning people were unable to start their daily game 😔 The good news is when I restarted the service it drew a daily word and kicked back into life. The bad news is, I'm still not sure why it happened?

To mitigate the issue, I have an update to double draw a midnight and midnight+30min (don't worry if the first draw works, the second draw won't do anything, so we'll all still have the same word to complain about). However, I haven't pushed the patch yet in anticipation of being able to catch the bug again and inspect it first. So, stay tuned.