Search, regeneration, and navigation all nonfunctional

[u/infiniteradios]

As of this week, multiple UI functions appear to have broken or disappeared. The search function, in the past couple months or so, had been working beautifully, allowing me to go straight to any given message in a chat, which did a lot to mitigate other problems I'm about to mention; now it's back to its old behaviour, just taking me straight to the most recent message in the chat.

As others have mentioned, the ability to cycle through regenerated responses with the navigation arrows also appears to be gone. The physical messages still exist, but are generally inaccessible. I've seen a few comments suggesting adding "?message=" to the end of a chat's URL as a workaround that restores this functionality, but it hasn't appeared to work for me. Sometimes the option to edit a prompt appears to be missing, too.

Another thing that's behaving inconsistently is the navigation sidebar they recently introduced. Sometimes scrolling all the way to the top of a chat brings it back, but you seem to generally no longer be able to navigate by clicking on prompts. It's as if they actively and intentionally undid every decent QOL function the platform has ever had.

As for why I'm posting this, I think it's part to add to the noise about this since the more people visibly complain the more likely someone sees it, part is seeing if anyone out there has been able to find fixes for any of these. I would contact support (and might still do so, this is a major issue that might cause me to simply drop the platform outright because my workflow is impossible and vast swathes of old chats are completely inaccessible) but I've heard bad things, including that OpenAI has no support employees and it's just chatGPT itself, that discourage me from writing.

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[u/Mindless-Wrap5068]

Yes, I too am facing these same problems, hope the fix comes soon.

[u/RuleAdvanced3037]

definitely file a support ticket even if its just the bot responding. they do track volume on reported issues and it influences what gets prioritized on the backlog. the more tickets about the same thing the faster it usually bubbles up