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

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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.

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I have so many chats; I always wondered why ChatGPT doesn't have export feature and whatif happens if it loses it all; here we are :(

Yeah, this is a bug. Check out the Discord server and you'll see thousands of people currently reporting this: https://discord.com/channels/974519864045756446/104756537464...

I suspect this will be resolved at some point soon.

I accidentally did Shift + F5 when I thought I was on my VSCode window, but instead it nuked the ChatGPT tab I had next to it and lost all of my chats.

Some people claim that they can see the chat history of other users [0]. This might be the reason why OpenAI has disabled the history.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/11l2hox/chatgpt_ju...

I think someone didn't adequately test a fontend change b/c in traffic I saw all of the chat-history data come my way but it didn't display. Also the javascript applet I use to export chats in markdown is...failing in very interesting way. No time to track down the bug atm (also if it going to keep changing for a while there's no point).

I think it’s happening to everybody, hopefully a bug that is fixed soon.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/11ljd26/chat_histo...

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 :/

This happened before. It seems like chat history is a separate (micro)service with lower-than-perfect availability. It came back last time, and have no reason to believe it wouldn't this time.

Somewhat off topic, but I'm getting a lot of network errors lately. Has anyone else noticed an increase? I'm also curious if any Plus users here can share their experience...

Logout & in, click 'Retry' histroy, it worked for me.

I was wrong, now it says "Not seeing what you expected here? Don't worry, your conversation data is preserved! Check back soon."

This worked for me. Thanks!

I think only those with free account are affected. I have 2 accounts - 1 free & 1 paid. All my chats in the free account are gone, but I still have my chats in paid account.

I just had this issue with my paid account. I just canceled the renewal today, expiring in a few weeks, so I chalked it up to a clumsy downgrading system. Looks like not.

I just found out all my chats in my paid account had also gone.

Log out and log back in. Doing so fixed this issue for me.

Sometimes, There may be a "Retry" button. Click or tap it.

exactly, this just happened to me!! i need the chats back, I was doing an assignment with Chat GPT and all the feedback and information are gone!! I went to go to the bathroom, came back, and all the chats gone!! wtf

Just go on your history Ctrl+H and click it and select the conversation you want

I can also access old chats that are still open so it's likely a bug.

Mine is gone too. I wonder if /when we will get it back?

It'll come back; this happened a bunch of times before.

Pretty sure its just a bug that will be resolved soon

Same here - all gone

I’m freaking out

The situation appears to be back on track.

that's why I made my own chat with the api lol, infinite chats, fast load, past edition including prompt

does the api version have more working ram (you know what i mean)? my virtual assistant jim has turned into quite the r word.

add my discord and put me on plz lmao Charge#1479

History seems to have been restored.

What do you want me to do about it?

sad, me too.. hard to trace if there's no history feature :(

I'm freaking out

Same here. f...k openai, i had lot of important chats.

Bummer!!

Ditto

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