Tell HN: OpenAI removed all my ChatGPT history without telling me

#1

Post by behnamoh » Wed, Mar 08, 2023, 2:21 AM UTC

Everything is gone. In the left pane, I see no history. I had maybe 30 different chat histories which are now disappeared completely.

Crazy thing is, I still have a link to one of my chats and that works:

https://imgur.com/a/PCnLG6J

So I'm sure they still keep the chat histories on their servers even if it doesn't show in the history panel.

Re: Tell HN: OpenAI removed all my ChatGPT history without telling me

#2

Post by Roverlord » Wed, Mar 08, 2023, 2:29 AM UTC

Same, I've seen a few people saying the same thing in the past couple of minutes.

Re: Tell HN: OpenAI removed all my ChatGPT history without telling me

#3

Post by behnamoh » Wed, Mar 08, 2023, 2:31 AM UTC

Roverlord wrote: post #2

Same, I've seen a few people saying the same thing in the past couple of minutes.

Do you think it's temporary? I noticed their streaming was slower than usual as well. Can server overload cause this problem?

Re: Tell HN: OpenAI removed all my ChatGPT history without telling me

#4

Post by Roverlord » Wed, Mar 08, 2023, 2:40 AM UTC

behnamoh wrote: post #3

Roverlord wrote: post #2

Same, I've seen a few people saying the same thing in the past couple of minutes.

Do you think it's temporary? I noticed their streaming was slower than usual as well. Can server overload cause this problem?

I really hope so. It's lost my history before but only for a minute or two and I always attributed it to my browser chugging with too many tabs open. At this point I'm just going to wait and see :/