Suggestions and long-pending improvements for chatgpt.com

Not much to say, but a few UX tweaks are pending since long in the ChatGPT web.

  • The search-chats would be nice if it had a hover-down preview.

  • The timeline scrollbar on the right side of a chat conversation in ChatGPT is extremely jank, compared to the one that has been for long in the desktop app / codex.

  • Temporary chats keep accumulating conv_key cookies that pile up fast and clean up slower (depends on how many temporary chats one uses). Causes issues with site loading and HTTP 431s.

  • Migration to the OLED / high contrast dark theme feels inconsistent. Some UI elements still use the older ChatGPT gray-ish theme, while the general interface uses the newer pure-black theme.

  • Temporary chats randomly ‘break’ (“Waiting for full response…” on all subsequent requests, along with a 404 for the /conversation completion request in the network tab.)

  • Chats that once used a model like GPT-5.x-mini stay stuck on that model even if GPT5.5 is available; unless you force GPT5.5 by using a request editor, which isn’t quite a thing that everyone would always be willing to do.

  • Cancelled codex OAuth2 requests sign you out of ChatGPT as well.