Mailto: Sam Altman – Could ChatGPT Support Threaded Side Chats?

10 oolu_bunmi 3 6/16/2025, 7:02:14 AM

Hi Sam.

Sometimes when I’m deep into a ChatGPT convo, I have a small follow-up question — like “what's a webhook again?” — but asking it derails the flow.

What if we could open a mini thread off a specific message — like Discord or Slack — to ask side questions without messing up the main conversation?

Could the current “temporary chat” feature evolve into something like this — a side convo anchored to a specific part of the main thread?

Feels like it’d make ChatGPT more useful for builders and deep work.

Thanks

Comments (3)

aed · 3h ago

Typing Mind has this feature, as I'm sure some other "LLC Clients" may have as well -> https://docs.typingmind.com/chat-management/fork-chats

arnold_palmur · 5h ago

I find myself often wishing that I could create multiple labeled branches of conversation flow for things like this - perhaps it's some constraint of LLM's but I'm actually quite surprised how linearly-limited the flow is on ChatGPT.

oze2co · 7h ago

Yes that would be nice. And if you ask many "side questions" it starts messing up everything after some point...

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Mailto: Sam Altman – Could ChatGPT Support Threaded Side Chats?

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