ChatGPT Users Report Older Chats and Projects Failing to Load, Fearing Data Loss

yaxir · reddit · 2026-10-01

A paying subscriber reports that weeks-old ChatGPT conversations, especially inside Projects, are failing to load—stuck loading, blank, or incomplete. The chats held active research and dev context, and the author questions whether it's a frontend/indexing bug or actual data loss, asking whether exports confirm the chats still exist. A cautionary tale for anyone keeping long-running work state in ChatGPT: export important context regularly.

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