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763 points easton | 14 comments | 21 Oct 25 17:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.449s | source | bottom
1. gnarlouse ◴[21 Oct 25 23:46 UTC] No.45663225[source]▶
I'm still shocked that there isn't basic functionality in chatgpt that allows you to fork conversations to have subtopical conversational threads off of a main one.

For example, I'm asking deep philosophical questions, or maybe reaching for a STEM concept slightly beyond my understanding, and that inevitably requires me to ask subquestions (eg "okay wait, what are Conformal Fields?"). Doing so still forces me to do a linear conversational format, and it just isn't functional.

Blows my mind that with all the great big AI minds at OpenAI they still can't do basic functionality.

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Like seriously, for some of us old heads, imagine having this in undergrad: a professor in your pocket that can handle your arbitrarily stupid recitation questions, one on one, with infinite patience. I think I could have aced electrodynamics and Calc III instead of just pulling Bs.

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2. rlander ◴[21 Oct 25 23:52 UTC] No.45663270[source]▶
Maybe you haven’t seen this yet, but there is a (recent) option to fork a conversation when you click on the thee dots of a reply.
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3. ahdada8 ◴[21 Oct 25 23:54 UTC] No.45663287[source]▶
There is! If you click on the three dots menu of a response, there is a “Branch in new chat” option.

I just discovered it today and feel like it’s new.

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4. axiom92 ◴[21 Oct 25 23:55 UTC] No.45663292[source]▶
You can do this at grok.com.

There is a "start thread" option below every conversation. You can also read the responses aloud (helpful if you want to do something async).

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5. antegamisou ◴[21 Oct 25 23:58 UTC] No.45663316[source]▶
Doing so still forces me to do a linear conversational format, and it just isn't functional.

So A"I" isn't I... huh, who would've thought.

6. gnarlouse ◴[22 Oct 25 00:02 UTC] No.45663351[source]▶
Oh cool! Finally!!!

Unfortunately, it looks to only support single subthreads. But my questions have questions sometimes. I want to subthread conversations to arbitrary depth. If they can subconvo once, they can do it arbitrarily.

Thanks for pointing this out.

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8. yosito ◴[22 Oct 25 00:03 UTC] No.45663365[source]▶
My ChatGPT doesn't have a three dots menu on iOS or macOS.
9. cleak ◴[22 Oct 25 00:04 UTC] No.45663372[source]▶
It isn’t present on mobile (at least on iOS) unfortunately. I use it all the time on the web though, and it’s very useful.
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10. gnarlouse ◴[22 Oct 25 00:04 UTC] No.45663379[source]▶
Oof. I won't be using this. The implementation is terrible: just forks a new tab in my browser (at least on Firefox). I want a horizontally scrolling view, clickable highlights that specify my subconversational contextual focus.
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12. davorak ◴[22 Oct 25 00:11 UTC] No.45663440[source]▶
I think I have always been able to have branching conversations via editing a comment.

The interface remembers both the old and new conversation thread and you can switch between them.

It seems like the new "Branch in new chat" feature mostly creates a new chat at the top level rather then the existing functionality of editing a comment and branching in the same chat.

13. rolls-reus ◴[22 Oct 25 03:45 UTC] No.45664718[source]▶
I came across this that seems to do exactly that

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/chatgpt-side-...

It’s closed source though, I haven’t tried it.

14. cleak ◴[22 Oct 25 16:13 UTC] No.45671357{3}[source]▶
And now it's gone on web this morning. I'm not sure if something in the conversation blocks it or if it's part of some A/B test.