Ask HN: Has Google started hacking up the free Gemini?

The "Branch from here" option (which I LOVED) is now missing for a few days... presumably sequestered to the paid plan?

And MOST frustratingly... I was 400k tokens into a long form solution and some pretty deep problems last night... closed the browser tab by accident... and poof... impossible to recover my chat.

https://aistudio.google.com/prompts/new_chat never redirects to a unique URL any longer, and no new chat histories are being saved to my Google account.

Is this some kind of bug or does Google actually think they don't need to wine and dine the vibing tech bros anymore?

All because one of their models has topped the leaderboards for a few weeks now?