Once a user gets beyond a few projects on chatgpt.com, clicking ‘see more’ will trigger more to load and if that has more than a few, it’s painfully slow. This needs to be snappy, because you lose all chats if you delete a project so users can’t keep the number of projects low forever.
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So strange this is so slow. Even stranger there is not more visibility, comments and votes on this. (Located one on Reddit but cannot link.) This is not a new issue either, been sluggish since projects were released, sometimes better than other times, but generally slow, if the projects ever load as I usually give up after a few seconds.
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Agree - surprising more people haven’t noticed/reported this. I have been staring at it for 5 minutes just now!
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The Projects “See more” being so slow to load, is probably the worst UX in the ChatGPT Web app right now.
Surprised this hasn’t been addressed.
It also seems they removed the context button click, to move chats to Projects.
The best circumvention atm seems like managing Projects inside e.g. the MacOS app – which loads Projects quickly.
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sometimes I ask myself why I’m still even using chatGPT. The GUI is so bad, it’s can’t even load my projects, you can’t search for them, so it’s impossible to stay organized.
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This issue is being conflated with the long context problem of long chats .. which has similar symptoms. There has to be a better way .. this Redis backend is just not working. The constant non-function is actually pushing me more into my Gemini Pro UI which suffers from a different organizational problem I am getting more used to, but has no issues loading. I just hit my monthly business plan limit for Pro, so just another reason to go elsewhere for a while. I am thinking I have made a mistake, allowing the technical debt associated with using ‘Projects’ to organize chats to build up to a non-functional level. I am also not satisfied with the not-very-effective search capabilities in my business plan, which consistently fails to locate buried learnings. Saved links in my local knowledgebase is the only thing that works reliably for indexing research that has not been fully exported into another system. Another thought is to create an AI workflow that can scrape the entire history, chats, projects, and migrate it to something more useful and searchable .. or just let it go like a filing cabinet full of useful things, that you will never be able to reference effectively.
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I’ve been experiencing the same problem for several months now, and it’s very frustrating. I hoped it was a temporary bug following an update or a server problem, but it looks like it’s something far more serious.
I noticed that projects are loaded in batches of 10. So first 10 are readily available (5 in the sidebar and another 5 in the flyout list). Then the next 10 take a long time to load. And then… the next 10 take AGAIN vary long to load.
I do hope it’s fixed sooner rather than later, as it makes ChatGPT rather unusable for my purposes - I do need the ability to switch rapidly between projects.
as of Jan 2026, this problem still exist. that’s why i am using cursor to manage all projects and their files and context.