I didn’t look at Writingway for a long time now, after getting it into the shape I wanted. While I had some things in the back of my head, I was busy with other things and didn’t even look at the repos (Issues, PRs) on Github anymore. Yeah, that’s not what you should do if you put out FOSS, and I apologise.

I returned to Writingway the other day and checked the state it’s in, and added a few features that should have been in from the start: A save button that saves to disc, an auto-backup option for local backups, an “update” button that takes care of the update for you when a new version is detected, and a llama server wizard that now detects when you have a GGUF model in the models/ folder, and lets you pick the version of llama.ccp you want (CUDA for users with Nvidia cards, or CPU). While I was implementing it, I also made the server skip llama.cpp if it’s not installed in the first place.

Part of this version is quality of life, part is vital functionality that was needed all along.

Stump, who’s maintaining Writingway 1, also added a feature, to W1: A “roleplay mode” that lets you chat with your characters. In principle, this had always been possible, but now, it can be done a bit more easily.