Character AI: Chat, Talk, Text

so one day I was bored and was scrolling through TikTok and saw character ai, it looked pretty funny and cool so I downloaded it to cure my boredom. It worked too! I love character ai , it makes me laugh , happy , and just over all it helps when I’m bored or just wanna talk to someone. (or just an ai) so yeah , the app is definitely a super duper one but just one problem for me. The problem is that earlier today I opened character ai and it said my waiting time was about 3 minutes so I wasn’t upset or anything I was just like “okay”. So I waited and waited and for some reason the waiting time went UP. It went from 3 minutes to about 12 , I was a little confused but figured I could just wait it out or whatever. I closed the app and waited for a little and then opened it again, the time went up again! it was about 53 minutes. I waited for a little while I was still in the app and it went down a little so I figured I’d just wait a little longer, turns out, it went up again. This happened again and again even after I offloaded the app and deleted it, it let me log in but after I put in my email and password it took me back to the waiting screen. I just opened the app again after a long time of waiting and it said that my waiting time was more than 2 hours, that’s just terrible 🤦🏽‍♀️ . Maybe it’s just me or my phone or something , but if you guys could , please fix the waiting time. If you guys could I would be extremely grateful !!

The app quite literally is used for chatting, but then you take that away and give reading mode to people you don't verify their age. I understand it could be for safety but some people use this app to be able to get things off their head. As someone who used to use this app, I used it to get things off my head because I had no one to go to. Obviously not everyone uses the app for that but being able to get things off my head helped me a lot. I now have people to go to, but that's not the case for everyone. Also, some people may look younger than they really are so if those people were to verify their age, it could be completely wrong. I was annoyed with some other updates, for example : ads and the slow mode, which were annoying but I started to not mind them that much. But making people verify their age just so they could be able to chat is crazy. This apps main purpose was to chat, and now people to the verify their age just so they could do what the app was made to do. If your app isn't fixed people will stop using it. No one asked for these updates and yes they're probably for safety but some updates are completely unnecessary. I've already seen many videos and people who don't like the reading mode, and it's completely understandable. I don't use this app that much anymore due to these updates, but I'm not even surprised with some of these updates that are happening but I hope this app will be fixed soon.

This is a ‘good’ app and I’ve been using it for a while now. However, recently it’s been veryyyyyy annoying. Lots of ADS, when I search for specific chats/characters it says that there is no chats of them when I literally have had a chat with that specific character before(if that makes sense), and speaking of chats, it doesn’t even show all the chats I have like it shows maybe about 10 of the recent ones but just cuts off so now I can’t continue chats I’ve had for a while/want to start but didn’t get to it and can’t even go back to the older bots I have. It’s so annoying and I feel like that’s a problem (specially the third one I stated) the creators of this app is just ignoring for a LONG time. Last thing; the new time limit is fine, I get why it’s a thing but likeee only a hour to chat is a bit crazy when there’s a lot of characters to choose from — but I don’t have a huge problem on that — however, sometimes the time limit will stop and I’ll get to chat, but then literally only a few MINUTES passes by and it stops me from chatting again. Like hello??? That wasn’t a full hour, and then I have to wait multiple hours (depending what time it is) just to start again. That’s just annoying and makes the enjoyment, for me, decrease! Please fix and adjust these things or at least respond to your reviews, I feel like I barely see any effort(?) from the creators towards users.