Longtime ChatGPT user says direction is unclear after Astra
A user who has been on ChatGPT since the 4o era looks back on two years of model changes, says things have grown confusing since Astra arrived, and asks OpenAI to keep GPT-5.6 Sol.
Lately, I’ve had this strange feeling that those of us who have stayed with ChatGPT for years are slowly being left behind. And it has made me look back at the last two years. I’ve been here since the 4o era. I stayed through the model changes, the confusing updates, the disappointments, even the GPT-5.2 period when almost everything felt like it was falling apart. I stayed because I always believed ChatGPT would find its way through. Every difficult period felt temporary. Every time something was lost, I believed something better would eventually grow from it. But lately, especially since Astra arrived, I find myself asking a question I never used to ask: What is happening to ChatGPT? The direction feels harder and harder to understand. I hope #OpenAI remembers that some of us are not standing outside watching these changes happen. We have been going through them with you. Through every model, every transition, every strange week when nothing quite worked the way it did before. Maybe this is just another difficult chapter. I really hope it is. I hope ChatGPT finds its way again. I hope one day we can look back at this period and say, that was rough, but we made it through. And until then, please: Keep GPT-5.6 Sol for us. Some of us are still here because it still feels like home. ❤️🔥 #loveAI #ChatGPT