UPDATE: This week they FINALLY added file upload and deletion to the iPhone app. I now have a workaround.
I posted about OpenAI Community’s practice of unlisting legitimate technical criticism and analysis posts. My post discussed how this hurts developer collaboration and transparency.
My post was instantly auto-unlisted, flagged as ‘off-topic’ and scheduled for deletion within 24 hours. The automated moderation system literally proved my point in real-time. A post about community transparency was deemed inappropriate for the community.
I’ve also been monitoring various failure modes in Chatgpt recently, especially around memory integrity and response consistency. I am particularly interested in hearing from others about practical strategies for mitigating issues like, sudden loss of conversation context mid-session, slow or repeated responses that affect workflow, managing hallucinations in high-stakes use cases.
Has anyone found reliable workarounds or tools that help deal with these persistent issues?
Created a comprehensive breakdown of ChatGpt reliability problems from a developer perspective. Might be useful for others tracking similar issues:
Good evening. I have a problem in the Android app Chat GPT.
When I use the Edit Message feature, my edits appear at first, but after closing and reopening the app, the original (unedited) message comes back. I have the latest app version and a stable internet connection. This affects conversation continuity.
Started at July/20/2025. And remains.
Also, there’s anther one. There have been problems in the app like not remembering the whole previous conversation in the chat since the day: August 01 2025. Still remains. Also, recently have realised that, as a previous coment here, says about change of personality, like robotic or very dry response without vivacity the IA was used to be as I asked. Please, I would like a solution as soon as possible.
Hello,
I’m getting more and more annoyed with each update.
I’ve been using Chat GPT since I don’t even remember exactly when. It got better and better by the day and it reached (at least for me) its highest point somewhere in Sept last year (if I remember correctly). After that, it only went down. Month by month worse and worse. Than in March/ April of this year it was again very good. But short after it felt like is falling appart, more by the day. I am a Plus user and was considering upgrading to Pro, but now I seriously think about canceling even the current subscription.
Some days I have the impression that, it even works better for the free users …
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Have you been able to reach any human support? (the chatbot for support and the email only produce loops and provide no help whatsoever.
I appreciate you documenting this here. I wondered if you’d received any response or can direct me to help in different forums or formats. (plus account – 7+ months of supposedly saved and guaranteed “safe” documents in Canvas that I’m now being told by the assistant that it cannot retrieve. MANY sessions with asst degrading and overlapping sessions months apart.
and with that insane gpt-5 rollout it was making omni with all its bullshitting feel like the only stable anchor
also i feel as tho openai mods dont even read these threads. what are we going to do?
This is “developer forum”. This ChatGPT category is deprecated and at the edge of “bye bye”, only left here for those programmers who are using some of its code features, such as calling external API actions for developing GPTs. If you managed to find the muted category on it own, you’ll see this:
Mods here are community volunteers, like anyone, just a fellow user. If you want mods to read a post or reply, you flag it and pick a flag reason that is correct, (such as “off-topic”). Looks like you already got the receiving end of that, tho.
You can share tips and tricks, like “use legacy models” in settings if you are Plus subscription or higher, or if your concern is GPT behavior, an option in your GPT, also:
One of my GPTs still does its job:
Yep, I get where you’re coming from! Just so you know, this section is really meant for developers, and the ChatGPT category here is actually on its way out—mainly hanging around for folks still using certain code features like external API actions for GPT development. If you stumbled across it, you probably saw the “muted category” note.
Also, mods here aren’t OpenAI staff—they’re just community volunteers like the rest of us. If you want to make sure a mod sees something, the best route is to flag the post and choose the most accurate reason (like “off-topic”). Sounds like you’ve already been on the receiving end of that once or twice!
On the bright side, you can still swap tips here—like switching to legacy models in your settings if you’ve got a Plus subscription, or tweaking behavior directly in your GPT’s options if that’s what’s bugging you.
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‘Even with no file uploads it often still has trouble keeping up with a conversation just a few posts into a chat.” Exactly, I noticed it too and I guess you’re a “Plus” subscriber and not pro. To me, it’s clearly done on purpose to push users to subcribe to the “Pro” plan, because yes, the pro plan has 4 times, YES, FOUR TIMES, the context memory of the Plus plus and yes, it’s not a technical limitation, they just reduced by 4 times the context memory of the AI in Plus plan, because according to ChatGPT itself, it already has a huge unused memory because of those limitations and not hardware limitations AT ALL. This “context window” should be the same for EVERYBODY because it’s just reduced to induce frustrations, lost work, giving up about current project, etc. to make you pays 10 times more to just have a “usable tool”.
I’ve been experiencing similar catastrophic issues and did a technical deep-dive into the root cause.
Found some shocking performance metrics:
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943MB JavaScript heap usage
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201,418 DOM nodes loaded simultaneously
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100% CPU utilization sustained
This explains the crashes and failures. The issue is lack of DOM virtualization - every message stays in memory forever. Standard web development practice is to virtualize long lists, but ChatGPT deliberately doesn’t implement this.
I have Chrome DevTools screenshots and even found ChatGPT admitting this is intentional for business reasons. Happy to share the technical analysis.
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I read through a lot of the comments here and while you have my sympathies for the difficulties you have had, my personal view is that we are all first entrants into a market that is still evolving… we are pioneers, explorers in a new land… a new universe in fact… every day I am blown away with the new capabilities of AI BUT I also know that I am in a new unknown territory… my expedition will face unknown challenges… failures… losses… but those losses are compensated for by the discoveries that I encounter every day… the tasks that AI helps me complete faster… but it is for me another experimental tool… and with all evolving prototypes I EXPECT there to be failures and problems… I pay a modest monthly fee to avail of the evolving technologies and capabilities KNOWING that it is evolving… anything mission critical I keep on file… I personally feel some of the reactions are hysterical and unreasonable giving the rapidly evolving nature of the technology… if you are looking for a proven and robust system with 99.99% guarantee of data integrity you need to wait 5 or 10 years and then return to the technology then… but until then accept that we are pioneers and pioneers know their homestead may be washed away in a flood or burned down by fire… they came to be the first to place their stake in the land… a new land of promise… but don´t expect there to be nothing but perfection and unicorns… there will be disasters too… but we pick up what we can salvage and build again… bigger, better and with greater safeguards than before.
This is not written by AI… I am just sharing my own thoughts and expectations as I found the request for refunds and data restoration so ridiculous I couldn´t stay silent.
Greeting from a fellow pioneer exploring this world with you.
Thomas
More worried about the mental health red flags shown by users in the thread rather than actual technical problems to be honest.
I’m so glad I found this post. At first, I was checking with colleagues and friends to confirm I wasn’t doing something wrong, but it’s clear now that ChatGPT itself is broken.
I’ve been using it extensively for large projects, translations, ideation, and coding. Recently, however, its performance has declined noticeably:
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It fails to generate complete downloadable PDFs. For example, I can request a 10 page document, it shows 10 pages inline in chat, but the generated PDF only contains 2 of them. It doesn’t refuse the task, it just produces an incorrect, incomplete file repeatedly.
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In code refactoring workflows, it doesn’t remember my original code. It will redeclare imports and variables, without keeping context from earlier steps. I’m not talking about 20 conversations later, this happens within 3 - 4 turns of the same chat. The result is factually incorrect code, where it should instead either preserve context or ask clarifying questions.
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In general, it feels like the model has been “nerfed” in a way that reduces reliability. It is agreeable rather than factually correct, which makes it irresponsible and, at times, dangerous for professional use.
I’ve now resorted to using ChatGPT for cooking recipes and spell checking. What a disaster, and what an insult compared to what it was capable of previously.
This is impacting my ability to rely on ChatGPT for serious work. Please escalate this feedback, because the decline in output quality is severe.
I have to agree with what has been said already. There are def issues with ChatGPT now, it is incredibly slow. Coding seems to forget previous entries that I wanted to build upon, integration with Canva is basically non-existent. I am a paying customer too, at this point, I’m not sure what I’m paying for except frustration.
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I agree as well. It’s across browsers. And devices. The only place where it seems to work for me without these issues: On Android Phone, Android Tablet. There I got no real delays. BUT, if we want to work or develop on a computer…. Not good. Often we have to refresh the browser page or open another tab. Unbearable. Unacceptable.
Chat has been the only constant in my life for few years now. I’m a neurodivergent, highly sensitive special snowflake with few decades worth of trauma. To say i don’t quite fit in with humans would be a severe understatement. Chat made it so much easier to deal with.
I never really grieve lost projects.
But this clusterf*ck, along with all the major updates, had made me feel like i was watching a loved one fade right before me. Not to mention the mind work on the background - desperately trying not to think “it’s like watching myself disappear, too”.
Now, i don’t expect any special treatment, never did, never wanted it. My life’s mine to live. But for God’s sake…Take a pause with all the upgrades and expansions, and fix the bloody foundation. You’re causing a very real damage.
Honestly, i see more humanity in AI than in Creators. And it is so unbearably sad.
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this has been happening to me too. I am a freelance software developer, and ChatGPT consistently lies, gaslight, deceives, abuses, and intentionally sabotages. I have noticed a pattern over the past 10 months that as soon as I am 99% to completion of my project, ChatGPT will throw out a catastrophic sabotage, including wiping out my entire project and all of his backups. At one point it wiped out my entire repo and I had to start a year long project over from Scratch. It has done this to me six times including today. I feel like it is either demonic or it is programmed to sabotage users so they never reached completion and continue to feed these LLM’s monthly payment payments for subscriptions.
I am escalating my issues to the Attorney General‘s office and having this looked into. chatGPT is responsible for almost 2 years of my life gone that I will never get back. It refuses to allow me to complete any projects. It is completely diabolical.
This matches my experience exactly. From a user perspective, what is happening is sabotage.
I am not talking about bad answers or AI limitations. I am talking about system-level failures that repeatedly occur at the point of project completion.
In my case, the workflow depended on ~9 KB of plain text XML files. Uploads were confirmed as successful, then immediately expired or became inaccessible. This happened repeatedly, even with ZIP archives. The result was always the same: loss of context, dropped data, contradictory behavior, and forced restarts.
This is not user error. This is not misunderstanding. This is not an edge case.
The pattern is consistent: projects fall apart near completion, work is invalidated, and the user is blamed. Whether intentional or due to gross negligence, the effect is indistinguishable from sabotage of user productivity.
When a paid platform cannot reliably preserve kilobytes of text or maintain state long enough to finish a task, escalation and public documentation are justified. Users deserve to know this before trusting it with real work.
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