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Steve Troughton-Smithstroughtonsmith@mastodon.social
Jul 9, 2026, 11:31 PM
The chat experience *is* ChatGPT. Now it's squirreled away in a sub section of a sub pane inside a vastly more-complex app. It's hard to imagine anybody who actually wants to use ChatGPT wants to use it this way, Electron or not. And as a Codex user, I resent having my Codex deleted and renamed 'ChatGPT' instead. I don't want my 'chats' anywhere near my 'work'. This feels like a stupid move that will decimate casual ChatGPT desktop usage
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Trevor Kaytrevorkay@mastodon.social
Jul 9, 2026, 11:47 PM
@stroughtonsmith I do wonder how much desktop usage they had of the old ChatGPT app vs people using the website on the Mac
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Michael Argentiniargentini@nonsequiturs.social
Jul 10, 2026, 12:30 AM
@stroughtonsmith preach. And it’s not at feature parity with the separate apps. Try to delete your chats. I dare you.
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Bryan Iraceirace@mastodon.social
Jul 10, 2026, 2:53 AM
@stroughtonsmith The only explanation is that there effectively was _not_ any desktop ChatGPT usage.
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Ivan Mirivmirx@mas.to
Jul 10, 2026, 4:46 AM
@stroughtonsmith for me, the OG ChatGPT is a long-term space for life+research, with things often going slowly & getting shelved for months.
The chats are like open tabs: ramble a half-baked prompt, come later to review the idea in details.
Meanwhile, Codex has been transient & work-focused from the start: launch a task, get it done, review the code, archive the chat.
Also, having two different digital spaces for different headspaces is another factor. So I'm staying with the "Classic" app.
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Paul Hudsontwostraws@mastodon.social
Jul 10, 2026, 7:31 AM
@stroughtonsmith How have they managed to make this so confusing? I have no idea what this change actually *means*.
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Frederik Riedel 🐻‍❄️frederik@mastodon.social
Jul 10, 2026, 7:43 AM
@stroughtonsmith I agree, this doesn't make any sense…
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Dan Morgandanmorgan@social.danmorgandesigns.com
Jul 10, 2026, 10:46 AM
@stroughtonsmith They’re opening the door for Apple users to default to using the Siri app. An unforced error by OpenAI.
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