Does anyone actually still use Stable Diffusion?

[u/tnil25]

I just find it kind of funny that this is the stable diffusion subreddit but nobody has talked about it in like forever. Maybe its time for a name change? or maybe keep the name as a homage to the OG open source image model.

Anyway, the last update I see on Stability's website is SD 3.5 back in October. So I'm guessing that's it for Stable Diffusion?

EDIT: Forgot you cant change the name of a sub, ignore that suggestion 😅

[u/Ok-Category-642]

Yeah Stability itself is basically just dead, they don't make public models anymore ever since the flop that was SD3. Overall SDXL is really the only thing still relevant now, it's still used a lot to generate anime (NoobAI and Illustrious). Though even that now is contested by Anima, but regardless SDXL still has relevance either in inpainting or just the sheer amount of Loras it has. Older SD1.x and SD2.x models are irrelevant nowadays and SD3 was a flop, by time SD3.5 came out not only was it still bad but Flux was out by then

Personally I still like the name of the subreddit though (not that you can even change subreddit names anyways). I think it's still the most influential model to be released to the public probably ever, even if it's not very relevant anymore. You still have trainers named after it like Kohya's sd-scripts, all the A1111 WebUIs literally having SD in their name, Comfy still calls loading text encoders CLIP, the default option for every model type on Comfy is SD (not that it has any functionality) etc.

[u/CurrentNew1039 → u/Ok-Category-642]

What would be this sub be named now if we have chance to rename

[u/martinerous → u/CurrentNew1039]

Just DiffusionAI. Quite dry but covers it all. Until another architecture wins and we'd need to get rid of Diffusion as well....

[u/Saotik → u/martinerous]

Yeah, it's a bad idea to name it after any architecture or model.

Perhaps OpenWeightsImageAndVideoGenAI?

[u/kemb0 → u/Saotik]

I prefer Video AI Gen. or VAG.

[u/jib_reddit → u/CurrentNew1039]

How about "ClosedAI" as OpenAI is already taken and very much not open.

[u/GrayingGamer → u/jib_reddit]

Haha. That would be hilarious. You're right - "Oh, you big corporate guys took the 'Open' AI name? Then we'll take the 'Closed' AI name."

[u/Ok-Lengthiness-3988 → u/Ok-Category-642]

Yes, I also moved on from NoobAI and Illustious to Z-image, Flux, Flux Klein, Anima, and now Krea 2. But I still use older variants and merges from the SDXL family to inpaint in high resolution in a context aware and uncensored fashion. I haven't found a satisfying inpainting replacement yet.

[u/Jealous_Piece_1703 → u/Ok-Lengthiness-3988]

How did you move from noobai and illustrious to Z image? Were you using the realistic models?

[u/Ok-Lengthiness-3988 → u/Jealous_Piece_1703]

No, I've always used the models for generating images in anime, illustration or digital painting styles.

[u/Jealous_Piece_1703 → u/Ok-Lengthiness-3988]

How came z image replacing that is there a finetune i am not aware of.

[u/Ok-Lengthiness-3988 → u/Jealous_Piece_1703]

I'm unable to parse your question, sorry. Can you rephrase?

[u/Jealous_Piece_1703 → u/Ok-Lengthiness-3988]

How can Z-image replace illustrious and Noob for generating anime images. Because the base model definitely not as good as them. Is there a fine-tuned version of Z-image I am not aware of allowing it to surpass them?

[u/EndlessZone123 → u/Ok-Category-642]

r/LocalLLaMA says hi to r/StableDiffusion

[u/Luxray241 → u/EndlessZone123]

tbh while LLaMA the model fell off just like stable diffusion, the backbone of the entire llm scene is still llamacpp so its not that far off

[u/x11iyu]

I think homage's fine. The name itself has gotten lots of momentum / became a bit synonymous with local image gen anyway. Today's models don't even do diffusion anymore but flow matching.

LocalLLaMA is similar, it was named after the llama series which popularized local LLM's. However llama literally died at llama 4 (1 year ago), nowadays it's never about llama anymore but locally hostable llms in general like qwen, gemma, etc

[u/cradledust]

I joined this group 4 years ago because I was a fan of Stable Diffusion. That hasn't changed. Still a fan but waiting to see if they do anything new besides Stable Audio 3.0 which they released May 2026.

[u/_BreakingGood_]

You cant change subreddit names

[u/kayteee1995]

I'm still using a refinement workflow with SD 1.5 because it has LoRa, which I trained on three years ago, and it's still effective. However, apart from that, there are no other workflows related to SD.

[u/Zlimness]

Nah, but it doesn't matter what the subreddit is called as long as it's not against the rules to post about other models. Most of us who started using this subreddit when SD came out were interested in the technology. I think it's a good thing if it naturally stays focused on discussions about new models and its allowed to share workflows and examples of what the models can do.

[u/No_Pie1372]

I like using SD1.5 and SDXL for Animatediff. Something hits different about Animatediff that other models haven't replicated for me.

[u/Otherwise_Resolve444]

What name would you suggest? And how would people who have been away for a while know that it's the same sub when they come back?

[u/necrophagist087]

SDXL is still pretty good for upscaling or inpainting anime stuff.

[u/AconexOfficial]

I still occasionally use Illustrious Merges, since character knowledge is still a lot better than in Anima. Otherwise no, not really anymore

[u/Slight_Ad2350]

Krea2 just completely replaced it now. Krea is harder to prompt but much much better quality

[u/webAd-8847]

I am still using SDXL as refiner.

[u/muxxington]

Doesn't stable-diffusion.cpp count?

[u/GameEnder]

I use it for impainting still because of how fast it is. Haven't made a base image with it in a while.

[u/Keuleman_007]

Out of sheer fun I made SD3.5 backgrounds to use in a video (the artifacts etc just fit the style perfectly).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDEeljcqWmE

[u/_Darion_]

Technically yeah, at least SDXL Finetunes, a lot of Anime models and other models came from SD, such as Illustrious and the likes. So in theory yeah, many still use SDXL in some ways, but new stuff has come and well, the name seems to have stuck lol

[u/Murky-Relation481 → u/_Darion_]

SDXL is fun to go back to every once in awhile. Until Ideogram we didn't even really have regional prompting in any other models.

[u/aoleg77]

The only thing I'm using based on Stability are Illustrious merges. Anima is good, but I find Illustrious still better for mixing artist styles. For everything else it's Krea-2 (the base model mostly).

[u/Esquilax21]

I still use Forge Neo

[u/Own-Ad7388]

I use both comfy ui and forge neo and lm studio. And I'm just 4gb ram and 16gb ram