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Tell HN: OpenAI removed all my ChatGPT history without telling me

21 points by behnamoh 4y ago

Everything is gone. In the left pane, I see no history. I had maybe 30 different chat histories which are now disappeared completely. Crazy thing is, I still have a link to one of my chats and that works: https://imgur.com/a/PCnLG6J So I'm sure they still keep the chat histories on their servers even if it doesn't show in the history panel.

Roverlord 4y ago
Same, I've seen a few people saying the same thing in the past couple of minutes.
- behnamoh 4y ago
  Do you think it's temporary? I noticed their streaming was slower than usual as well. Can server overload cause this problem?
  - Roverlord 4y ago
    I really hope so. It's lost my history before but only for a minute or two and I always attributed it to my browser chugging with too many tabs open. At this point I'm just going to wait and see :/
mmshoo 4y ago
I'm freaking out
adegbengaagoro 4y ago
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cryptoz 4y ago
I think it’s happening to everybody, hopefully a bug that is fixed soon. https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/11ljd26/chat_history_gone/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/11ljd26/chat_histo...
Blondie69 4y ago
Same here - all gone I’m freaking out
linsomniac 4y ago
Ditto
floprete 4y ago
Mine is gone too. I wonder if /when we will get it back?
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devmike1 4y ago
Pretty sure its just a bug that will be resolved soon
COMAU 4y ago
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sswam 4y ago
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shahbaby 4y ago
I can also access old chats that are still open so it's likely a bug.
fajrianwar 4y ago
sad, me too.. hard to trace if there's no history feature :(
astm 4y ago
+1
asdasdaasd 4y ago
that's why I made my own chat with the api lol, infinite chats, fast load, past edition including prompt
- dadeee 4y ago
  add my discord and put me on plz lmao Charge#1479
- tripulation666 4y ago
  does the api version have more working ram (you know what i mean)? my virtual assistant jim has turned into quite the r word.
gldunke 4y ago
I have so many chats; I always wondered why ChatGPT doesn't have export feature and whatif happens if it loses it all; here we are :(
durkes 4y ago
Somewhat off topic, but I'm getting a lot of network errors lately. Has anyone else noticed an increase? I'm also curious if any Plus users here can share their experience...
shimon-d 4y ago
Bummer!!
chernichka 4y ago
exactly, this just happened to me!! i need the chats back, I was doing an assignment with Chat GPT and all the feedback and information are gone!! I went to go to the bathroom, came back, and all the chats gone!! wtf
eshack94 4y ago
Yeah, this is a bug. Check out the Discord server and you'll see thousands of people currently reporting this: https://discord.com/channels/974519864045756446/1047565374645870743 https://discord.com/channels/974519864045756446/104756537464... I suspect this will be resolved at some point soon.
rruslan 4y ago
I think only those with free account are affected. I have 2 accounts - 1 free & 1 paid. All my chats in the free account are gone, but I still have my chats in paid account.
- disjunct 4y ago
  I just had this issue with my paid account. I just canceled the renewal today, expiring in a few weeks, so I chalked it up to a clumsy downgrading system. Looks like not.
- rruslan 4y ago
  I just found out all my chats in my paid account had also gone.
Chromer030 4y ago
Same here. f...k openai, i had lot of important chats.
sdrinf 4y ago
This happened before. It seems like chat history is a separate (micro)service with lower-than-perfect availability. It came back last time, and have no reason to believe it wouldn't this time.
enceladus_ice 4y ago
I accidentally did Shift + F5 when I thought I was on my VSCode window, but instead it nuked the ChatGPT tab I had next to it and lost all of my chats.
bjourne 4y ago
What do you want me to do about it?
tluyben2 4y ago
It'll come back; this happened a bunch of times before.
meth88 4y ago
Just go on your history Ctrl+H and click it and select the conversation you want
MatthewRSamuel 4y ago
Logout & in, click 'Retry' histroy, it worked for me.
- durkes 4y ago
  This worked for me. Thanks!
- MatthewRSamuel 4y ago
  I was wrong, now it says "Not seeing what you expected here? Don't worry, your conversation data is preserved! Check back soon."
timmytim 4y ago
I think someone didn't adequately test a fontend change b/c in traffic I saw all of the chat-history data come my way but it didn't display. Also the javascript applet I use to export chats in markdown is...failing in very interesting way. No time to track down the bug atm (also if it going to keep changing for a while there's no point).
vincent_s 4y ago
Some people claim that they can see the chat history of other users [0]. This might be the reason why OpenAI has disabled the history. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/11l2hox/chatgpt_just_thrown_me_into_other_peoples_account/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/11l2hox/chatgpt_ju...
nuuser 4y ago
Log out and log back in. Doing so fixed this issue for me. Sometimes, There may be a "Retry" button. Click or tap it.
sona125 4y ago
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sqRising 4y ago
History seems to have been restored.
Issacharceo 4y ago
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sqRising 4y ago
The situation appears to be back on track.

21 points by behnamoh 4y ago

Roverlord 4y ago

Same, I've seen a few people saying the same thing in the past couple of minutes.

behnamoh 4y ago
Do you think it's temporary? I noticed their streaming was slower than usual as well. Can server overload cause this problem?
- Roverlord 4y ago
  I really hope so. It's lost my history before but only for a minute or two and I always attributed it to my browser chugging with too many tabs open. At this point I'm just going to wait and see :/

mmshoo 4y ago

I'm freaking out

adegbengaagoro 4y ago

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cryptoz 4y ago

I think it’s happening to everybody, hopefully a bug that is fixed soon. https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/11ljd26/chat_history_gone/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/11ljd26/chat_histo...

Blondie69 4y ago

Same here - all gone I’m freaking out

linsomniac 4y ago

Ditto

floprete 4y ago

Mine is gone too. I wonder if /when we will get it back?

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devmike1 4y ago

Pretty sure its just a bug that will be resolved soon

COMAU 4y ago

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sswam 4y ago

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shahbaby 4y ago

I can also access old chats that are still open so it's likely a bug.

fajrianwar 4y ago

sad, me too.. hard to trace if there's no history feature :(

astm 4y ago

asdasdaasd 4y ago

that's why I made my own chat with the api lol, infinite chats, fast load, past edition including prompt

dadeee 4y ago
add my discord and put me on plz lmao Charge#1479
tripulation666 4y ago
does the api version have more working ram (you know what i mean)? my virtual assistant jim has turned into quite the r word.

gldunke 4y ago

I have so many chats; I always wondered why ChatGPT doesn't have export feature and whatif happens if it loses it all; here we are :(

durkes 4y ago

Somewhat off topic, but I'm getting a lot of network errors lately. Has anyone else noticed an increase? I'm also curious if any Plus users here can share their experience...

shimon-d 4y ago

Bummer!!

chernichka 4y ago

exactly, this just happened to me!! i need the chats back, I was doing an assignment with Chat GPT and all the feedback and information are gone!! I went to go to the bathroom, came back, and all the chats gone!! wtf

eshack94 4y ago

Yeah, this is a bug. Check out the Discord server and you'll see thousands of people currently reporting this: https://discord.com/channels/974519864045756446/1047565374645870743 https://discord.com/channels/974519864045756446/104756537464... I suspect this will be resolved at some point soon.

rruslan 4y ago

I think only those with free account are affected. I have 2 accounts - 1 free & 1 paid. All my chats in the free account are gone, but I still have my chats in paid account.

disjunct 4y ago
I just had this issue with my paid account. I just canceled the renewal today, expiring in a few weeks, so I chalked it up to a clumsy downgrading system. Looks like not.
rruslan 4y ago
I just found out all my chats in my paid account had also gone.

Chromer030 4y ago

Same here. f...k openai, i had lot of important chats.

sdrinf 4y ago

This happened before. It seems like chat history is a separate (micro)service with lower-than-perfect availability. It came back last time, and have no reason to believe it wouldn't this time.

enceladus_ice 4y ago

I accidentally did Shift + F5 when I thought I was on my VSCode window, but instead it nuked the ChatGPT tab I had next to it and lost all of my chats.

bjourne 4y ago

What do you want me to do about it?

tluyben2 4y ago

It'll come back; this happened a bunch of times before.

meth88 4y ago

Just go on your history Ctrl+H and click it and select the conversation you want

MatthewRSamuel 4y ago

Logout & in, click 'Retry' histroy, it worked for me.

durkes 4y ago
This worked for me. Thanks!
MatthewRSamuel 4y ago
I was wrong, now it says "Not seeing what you expected here? Don't worry, your conversation data is preserved! Check back soon."

timmytim 4y ago

I think someone didn't adequately test a fontend change b/c in traffic I saw all of the chat-history data come my way but it didn't display. Also the javascript applet I use to export chats in markdown is...failing in very interesting way. No time to track down the bug atm (also if it going to keep changing for a while there's no point).

vincent_s 4y ago

Some people claim that they can see the chat history of other users [0]. This might be the reason why OpenAI has disabled the history. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/11l2hox/chatgpt_just_thrown_me_into_other_peoples_account/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/11l2hox/chatgpt_ju...

nuuser 4y ago

Log out and log back in. Doing so fixed this issue for me. Sometimes, There may be a "Retry" button. Click or tap it.

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sqRising 4y ago

History seems to have been restored.

Issacharceo 4y ago

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sqRising 4y ago

The situation appears to be back on track.