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It's ~2026 –. ChatGPT still doesn't allow email change

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59 points amukbils | 3 comments | 08 Dec 25 23:13 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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amukbils ◴[08 Dec 25 23:13 UTC] No.46198995[source]▶
No mention of the reason why. Seems like a foundation feature. Ran into trouble more than once by their bad auth system.
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embedding-shape ◴[08 Dec 25 23:28 UTC] No.46199137[source]▶
My five cents for a guess: they've used the email as an index somewhere, which massive amount of data now depends on and they keep pushing forward the need of migrating away from that because it'll be painful and take long time.
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1. clickety_clack ◴[08 Dec 25 23:33 UTC] No.46199191[source]▶
I’d say it’s a rookie mistake, but they’re a half-trillion dollar company, so maybe I _should_ use email address as an id?
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2. embedding-shape ◴[08 Dec 25 23:36 UTC] No.46199213[source]▶
Yeah, but imagine the first engineers at ChatGPT back in 2021, some thrown together group of people who knew frontend the best from OpenAI, a research lab, to create a quick prototype UI for chatting with a text generating ML model. Of course they'll take some shortcuts, that's to be expected. All of this is just guesses though, but seen similar things play out many times. Of course, at one point someone needs to step in and pause for a moment to plan ahead for a bit, but depending on the leadership, it isn't always so easy to do.
3. tobyjsullivan ◴[08 Dec 25 23:36 UTC] No.46199215[source]▶
No doubt there’s a lesson in there, but I don’t think it’s a technical one.