I have not evaluated other platforms for this, and I would rather not have to: my clients already pay OpenAI for Plus to use my GPTs, several with over 100 conversations here, and moving them elsewhere means every one of them changing platform, account and history. The cheapest path for everyone, OpenAI included, is an unlisted plugin link for people outside the workspace. That is why I keep asking for it in writing, and why I would suggest everyone here does the same: one support ticket, one paragraph, the same request, quoting this topic number. If someone does test alternatives, by all means post what you find, but the ask in this thread should stay clear and simple.
Update: OpenAI support answered my three questions in writing this morning, itemized, not a template. (1) By current documentation, no: plugins have no option equivalent to “Anyone with the link” for people outside the workspace; the documented sharing options are workspace-only (invited members, workspace link, workspace directory). (2) The documentation describes no alternative “without the public directory” to keep access for users outside the workspace after Dec 11; migration does not carry the GPT’s permissions, the migrated plugin starts private, and broad access requires making it public through the submission process. (3) They cannot answer “yes” in general on Free/Plus: the directory exists on all plans, but installing and using a specific plugin depends on plan, account, region and plugin capabilities, with no documented guarantee for Free and Plus in every case.
So the position is now clear and in writing, and it matches what the UK creator above was told. I replied asking for four things: (a) the unlisted install link for migrated plugins, usable by people outside the workspace on their own Free/Plus accounts, logged as product feedback and quoting this topic; (b) a priority or partner review lane for builders migrating GPTs with external customers; (c) until (a) exists, written confirmation for my workspace that Free and Plus accounts can install and use my plugin once approved, and that link sharing on Business stays until Dec 11; (d) a named contact with authority. I will post whatever comes back. If you sell access to GPTs by link, the most useful thing you can do this week is send support the same one-paragraph request, quoting topic 1399984.
I completely agree with you. I haven’t looked at anything else either and don’t have the time to do so; we’ve all learned how to build some incredible things here using Custom GPTs which have benefited our businesses and those of our clients, so I am hopeful that OpenAI will do as you suggested, just create the ability to create an unlisted share link.
I´m devasted with this new update regarding Custom GPTs migration to plugins ! I´ve being creating and using them for my business for years! Some of them were created for my customers. Some of them I got from third parties and can´t contact the creators to ask for the plugin versions. I understand OpenAI´s need to improve their business but there are so many issues regarding this change that make me think about how trustful is to sign in paid tools with this company ! I prefer to keep my main LLM here but if it´s becoming unreliable, I´ll need to revise my business strategy ! Hope OpenAI revise this decision and/or the way that it´s being implemented.
I bet, Open AI will give a sh*t answering us all that questions and requests. Our requests are based on logical, well-reasoned, and very sound arguments, and yet I fear that OpenAI won’t care at all. The days when OpenAI listened to its community seem to be over once and for all -just look at the shutdown of GPT-4. There are simply models and concepts that are really damn good just the way they were - why not just keep them? Even Midjourney still offers the option to use ALL models since V1.
Besides, I’m probably not the only one who feels like this whole thing with all the different models and “fast/medium/supermegaboomhigh” is getting completely out of hand. There are TOO many tiers, TOO many options, TOO many features. I still don’t understand what the advantage of “skills” and “plugins” is over a simple, stable GPT. It just doesn’t make any sense. I suspect it’s simply driven by cold, hard financial interests. OpenAI probably doesn’t care at all about the “small” users any more.
It´s just extremely frustrating and after many years using ChatGPT I´m really thinking of leaving this mess and maybe quit using ai at all.
YES! Same here. The amount of time and work that’s going to be lost is massive.
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And now what?
I think what will happen is that open ai will lose lots of subscribers, as businesspeople will migrate their subsctiptions to other platforms, migrating to private plugin, and submitting your plugin for review if you can get past the technical hurdles is like asking every owner of a established Restaurant to close their doors, change their business model, stay shut down indefinitely until they are are approved, it is a very snobbish way of treating the same people that helped GPT develop its expertise, there is no doubt that some of the ideas created by custom gpt’s will be incorporated into their own and they learned a great deal from developers and now treat them as second class citizens not worthy of continuing their business, a very shameful act on the part of management that made this decision. I hope they come down from the heavens and face the reality of very poor decision making.
no idea! Feels like there is nothing we can do. OpenAI just does what it wants.
Wow, this is brilliant, thank you so much for sharing your workaround. So you’re sharing access to the PROJECT, that’s very interesting. I’m going to have to experiment with your idea, too.
It’s just ridiculous how many hours we all spent creating these things.
Only issue I realised quickly is that all members of the project see conversations. So if you want segregation you have to create multiple projects (one per user), or if you can do collaboration/ok to see past then shared is fine. Def not perfect, but also realizing there way Plugins work to bring the skills and tools together is pretty decent. You could then gate it all with OAuth on your tools.
IE: Skills indicate you have to call “initialize”. And initialize tool establishes OAuth so you can control user access more formally.