New horizons and the future of Warp

Long time no see, my fellow Warp enjoyers!

I’ve been working on a new UI for Warp early this year and oh God did I get carried away!
Driven by your invaluable feedback I’ve tried to make something that’s easy to run without a prior CS degree or inherited GEEK skills. I also took some notes on the UI, something about making it less complex than the current fighter-aircraft-cockpit style web-apps.

As you know, Warp was initially following the ‘designed-by-the-best-programmers paradigm, which didn’t hold up as soon as a non-disco-diffusion bros joined the party.
I’ve had an awesome friend of a designer, who helped me outline the future of my vision, but sadly, it’s just not technically possible in its current Colab notebook format (and also requires a bunch actual developers for it to be implemented)
While I’d still been testing some things with Warp in its current interface, most of my time is being spent working on a better and more friendly version of it. The one where you don’t have to deal with Colab update errors or local install stuff.

I guess this is the sad part of this post where I say that WarpFusion Colab updates are not to be expected anymore.
While I’m personally still using and tweaking it (and sharing the tweaks obviously), I cannot guarantee you any future updates, except for fixes for fun-breaking bugs.
If you get an update once in a while, it would probably be a Christmas miracle or something like that.

You can star the Sxela/WarpFusion: WarpFusion  github
and its ComfyUI version here - Sxela/ComfyWarp: WarpFusion Custom Nodes for ComfyUI to follow them stay tuned for the future updates, but be moderate in your expectations.
The ComfyUI version seems like a long-term option, as you can already implement the whole workflow just by using nodes! (and replace SD1.5 with Flux for example)

I’m eternally grateful to all my supporters. Warp Colab has even outlived other popular colabs thanks to your persistence :D
Your inputs and feedback have driven the development for almost 2 years. But there’s only so much a Google Colab notebook can take.

I guess we all know that the future lies in another castle, Mario. That castle’s name is Mago, an app developed by actual developers with actual designers in mind.
The good news is, that you are all invited to the new castle homecoming party! Most likely the higher tiers will get access first, but all supporters, active or former, will get a priority pass.

Stay tuned for more updates on the Mago beta schedules, and thank you once again for being awesome!
P.S. here's a humble link to the project I've been working on in stealth mode - Mago Studio - AI Style Transfer, you can get a sneak peek on the new interface there. The beta is planned to happen late Q1 2025.

Love, Alex.