It’s sometimes inconvenient to read ChatGPT’s response as it auto-scrolls while generating the text. We have to scroll for a bit to read it normally and continue reading at our own pace. I get that it’s also convenient the way it is now for some people, the feature should be helpful for others!
And the chat share feature was amazing, along with all your amazing work! Thank You!!
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+++ to this request. The auto-scroll is especially annoying when you’re using it for programming, because most of the time you’ll implement its response in chunks, and want to spend more time at the top of its response copying the code block, reading what it says, etc.
As it is right now I have to wait for the whole message to come in before I can start to use it without the annoyance of constantly scrolling back up.
[Edited] This appears to be working better for me now with the down arrow. Used to be more buggy, where I would scroll up to trigger the down arrow but it would auto-scroll anyway. Thanks if this was fixed since my post!
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I just made a post about this and would love any way to prevent it. It makes me want to throw my computer through the window. What possible purpose makes this a good idea?
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I also use GPT for programming. The auto-scroll can be annoying. My solution is to just wait the few seconds for it to finish its response. I watch the scroll bar to the right to determine that. What I would like to see is the auto-scroll default to the last entry - this would be convenient for long conversations. But, heartfelt thanks to OpenAI for this amazing tool.
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Yes please!!! The auto-scrolling in the new macOS app is intolerable. I have to wait for ChatGPT to finish generating before I can even start reading its output. Because it not a web app, I can’t use an extension that modifies this behavior. It needs a setting. 
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Have you guys encountered any problems scrolling up and down with the arrow keys on your keyboard? The latest version of ChatGPT web (from the last month) does not support arrow keys.
I think the authorities should consider adding this feature.
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Agree, now it’s super jerky and horrible for fast use in the Mac App, and easy to fix with a disable scroll option. The idea behind the scroll is probably that you can see the last output and check if it’s OK, but for long responses this is silly. no human can read that fast anyway… all you get now is a battle with the scrollbar 
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for the love of god, this is such a needed feature. When there is such little control over fine tuning and context management, gpt will produce pages at times and prevent the ability to copy until it is completely finished, tripling the amount of time to effectively utilize a response.
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It’s quite ironic that ChatGPT allows you to ask highly complex and very difficult questions and makes all kind of adjustments you wish for. But the very simple output technical infrastructure is so bad that even one year later I have to manually interrupt the scrolling everytime I get an longer output. This situation is transferable to the more wider context of our technical world. The most complex difficult things easily work but the simple technical infrastructure is still very dumb and a mess