Keep the chat sidebar open when creating a new chat

ChatGPT
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Right now, the ChatGPT website closes the chat sidebar when you open a new chat. This is a recent change. Completely unnecessary and makes the website really unpleasing to use. I would be forever grateful if this were reverted.

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I could not agree more, and for the last few days I’ve been searching the web to see if anyone else was complaining about this. Thought it was maybe just something with my setup.

I was able to write some custom Javascript code which quickly reopens the sidebar automatically when a new chat is created. You can just search for a “custom javascript” extension for your browser of choice and paste this code in there, it works quite well:

document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => {
	const checkBtn = setInterval(() => {
		const btn = document.querySelector('.flex.h-\\[60px\\] > .flex:nth-child(2) > .flex:nth-child(2) button');
		if (!btn) return;
		clearInterval(checkBtn);
		btn.addEventListener('click', () => setTimeout(() => 
			document.dispatchEvent(new KeyboardEvent('keydown', { key: 's', code: 'KeyS', metaKey: true, shiftKey: true })), 5));
	}, 100);
});

Whoever thought this was a good idea needs to re-evaluate the decision making process that led to this infuriatingly idiotic change.

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i really REALLY hope this will be back as it was… I don’t even understand how someone thought that logical thing would be to make sidebar close ANY other way than clicking on a button that is meant to close a sidebar. They should definitively fire UX guy…

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Update Mar 4th 12:40PM CST:

Looks like someone maybe paid attention? The change has been reverted. :raising_hands: :clinking_beer_mugs:

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