For around a week ago, the recent chat history is not loading like it should. These load sometimes, and sometimes not at all. Below are the three images that show what happens when I open ChatGPT:
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Open and loading animation starts.
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Button with retry appears, after trying again the animation goes for a while.
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After the retry is done this new state appears the only option is to reload the whole a new.
This behavior is happening on different front-ends
As of 2026-07-07 on Windows 11 Pro 25H2
- Firefox latest version
- Chrome latest version
- Edge latest version
- Windows App latest version
As of 2026-07-07 on macOS Tahoe 26.5.2
- Firefox latest version
- Safari latest version
- Chrome latest version
- I made sure all to log out and use all browsers without any extensions.
- Tested this on different network types.
- No concurrent chat instances, only a single chat instance.
- Used different profiles for all the mentioned browsers.
- Archived all opened chats
My workaround so far has been to bookmark the chats that I’m currently working on and make use of the chat search functionality to get to the chat in question.
Since this is happening on different platforms and front-ends seems that the next step is to look for support on this matter.
Thanks for taking a look and feedback on this matter.
Dys
Sounds really annoying and especially since this has been ongoing for ~ a week for you.
One thing I wonder is whether the affected chats are especially long, contain many images/files/tool calls or were created during a specific period. If only some conversations fail to load while others work?
Since it happens across different front-ends, I agree that Support probably needs to look into it from the account/backend side. Have you already contacted the support and opened a support case?
It varies, most chats with images have at most 8 images in one instance, with a few exceptions that are project relevant. The others can be more extensive when it comes to deep research and when it comes to refining code that I verify manually. The other kind of chat I have is to produce documentation in markdown and/or PDF depending on the need.
Not yet, thought I ask here first prior to open a support ticket. Maybe someone has a similar situation and there would be no need for support. But if by tomorrow I can’t find a lead, then I’ll open one.
In the meantime, just because of habit, still find my chats through bookmarks, search function and everything I add through Obsidian Web Clipper into the corresponding Vault. 
So some of them load up normally?
I at least have no problem with that and there doesn’t seem to be recent reports of this issue here. I’m just thinking if this has been going on for a week, it might be worth to contact them with the information you’ve provided here.
I can open all chats without a problem from by searching for the topic in question without a problem. I can also open them with the direct URL for a chat that was bookmarked.
These URLs also show everything
But retrieving the recent chats history from the UI doesn’t work as intended. I only get the same as the screenshots I posted earlier.
So, I can still work, just lots of workarounds to do.
Addendum: The pinned chats work as intended too.
From GPT:
Tiny gremlin has been upgraded to: backend-adjacent sidebar state goblin.
Ah okay! Good that search/direct URLs still work, but yeah, lots of workarounds.
Found the error, the endpoint for the chats returns this:
https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/conversations?offset=0&limit=28&order=updated&is_archived=false&is_starred=false
HTTP/2 500
date: Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:14:17 GMT
content-type: application/json
content-length: 28
server: cloudflare
Yeah, with a 500 on the conversations endpoint, this seems like something Support would need to investigate.
According to the support chat, the HTTP Request header is malformed. Has an extra unclear character. It shows within the HAR file. 
Anyway, escalated this to support.
Hopefully this gets resolved for you soon
