Editing an old message is the closest thing ChatGPT has to /compact, and it keeps your project chat alive
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Long project chats in ChatGPT die twice: first quietly, when early decisions fall out of the context window and the model starts contradicting them, then loudly at the hard cap. Starting a new chat fixes both and loses the one thing you wanted, the thread itself. This keeps the same chat, same URL,…
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- 2026-09-04 08:53 · r/ChatGPTCoding
Editing an old message is the closest thing ChatGPT has to /compact, and it keeps your project chat alive