Hubs: Build a Feed From Your Favorites
TL;DR:
A hub is an image feed you build yourself out of the creators and models you care about.
Hubs are private until you make one public. A public hub can be followed, and it can be copied.
Sorting and filtering work like the normal image feed, and your choices save to the hub.
You get 20 hubs, with up to 50 sources in each one. Following someone else's hub doesn't use any of that.
This started as a community extension. JeneScript built MultiHub first, and this is our version of what he showed us.
It's a trial for now. We're testing it out. If it performs poorly or has too many problems, we might remove it.
What a hub is
The site feed shows you everything. A hub shows you a slice of it that you picked.
Sources you can add:
- A creator you follow whose work you want to keep up with
- A model you like, or even a specific version of a model
You can add sources by name or by pasting the URL for the page that has the feed you want to include. The hub then behaves like a normal image feed, except it only contains images from those sources.
Sorting, filtering, and sharing
Sort by the standard image sort options (most reactions, newest, etc) and filter by all the typical image filters (time period, tools, etc).
If it's your hub, your sort and filter choices stick to it. If you're looking at someone else's, your changes are just for you and won't touch theirs.
A hub is private when you make it. Flip it to public or share it and other people can open it. Other users can follow it so it shows in their own hubs list, or copy it and make their own.
Each hub can also carry its own content level. So you can keep that feed of cute stuffed animals PG only.
Where this came from
A creator called JeneScript, @trunksn1 on GitHub, built this first as a browser extension called MultiHub. He open-sourced it at trunksn1/Civitai-MultiHub and wrote an article explaining it.
We didn't port his code, we built our own version. But the idea is his, and so is the proof that it works, which is the harder half. He's been generous with his time about it too.
If you've been using his extension, thank him. That's why this exists.
Questions
Does a hub show models, or just images?
Images. A hub is an image feed built out of model and creator sources, not a list of models.
If I follow a hub and the owner makes it private, what happens?
It stops showing for you. There's no notice, it just isn't there any more.
Do I get notified when a hub I follow adds something?
No. Open the hub and the new work is in it.
Can I follow my own hub?
You don't need to. Your own hubs are always in your list.
How many can I have?
20 of your own, and you can follow 50 more. Each hub takes up to 50 sources.
Can I add collections as sources?
Not yet. Unfortunately including Collections in the Hub is going to take a lot of change to the way our feed system works. It's something on our roadmap, but not something we are doing right away.
Thanks
This is a trial, and it's the kind of feature that's only worth much if people actually use it. So go make a Hub and tell us where it falls short.
And again, thanks to JeneScript for doing it first.