hannoWhy does this keep happening? Grammarly recently introduced an AI chat, and also, their spell-checking service, which previously was their main product, suffers from constant reliability issues since them. I'm paying for this service, because it used to be good, I never asked for an AI chat. I can go to ChatGPT, or Google, which used to be a search engine and is now an AI chat with a worse version of the search engine attached. Not that I'd want any of that.
Patrick Walsh@hanno agreed! Grammarly just got noticeably worse at suggesting ways to improve the clarity of my writing for me, too. Instead of just restructuring, it now suggests wholesale meaning changes.
jntesteves@hanno I use LanguageTool. I doubt it is as good as Grammarly used to be, but it is better than a simple spell checker, so it might be better than what Grammarly is becoming.
As a bonus, on Linux I use @sonny 's amazing Eloquent[1], which runs a local instance, and I configure the browser extension to use localhost, which means it works fully offline.
It is also FLOSS and made by a German company if you care about that. You can buy professional support too.
@jntesteves I use both, because grammarly does not support German. But I wish I had something as good as grammarly for German, languagetool ain't it. (Yet, I also need it less, as I'm native German and not native English.)