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I like Phind, but I feel like the quality of results I've been getting has been steadily dropping over the past few months.

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We implemented some cost-saving measures in April/May, but since then we reversed course and this current product should be the best it’s ever been. Have you tried it recently? Particularly in the new default mode (not basic search)?

Responses to queries I made today seem quite slow compared to responses to queries I made back in March. Was that part of the cost saving measures?

Phind now runs on GPT-4 by default, even without an account. So it's quite the opposite -- the underlying answer engine is a smarter and larger model than what we had back in March.

> We implemented some cost-saving measures in April/May,

Do you announce these major changes anywhere, outside of perhaps dropping a reply (which you may not even pin) on the Discord chat?

Some form of changelog would serve all users.

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