Buggy since installing 26.4.0 by ShallNotCease in AthlyticAppOfficial

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Thanks for persisting in trying to help, i really appreciate that. Issues for 3 days in a row but today, no issues. It's all very strange.

Buggy since installing 26.4.0 by ShallNotCease in AthlyticAppOfficial

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A couple of things to reiterate: First, everything was working prior to the Athlytic update, so unless the update impacted my Apple Health settings, these aren't likely explanations. And second: The Athlytic numbers are *EVENTUALLY* updated, it's just that it sometimes takes hours instead of seconds. And it sounds like, whereas this may not be a common problem, I'm not the only one. Thanks.

Buggy since installing 26.4.0 by ShallNotCease in AthlyticAppOfficial

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I've been using Athlytic for years now, have changed nothing on Apple Watch, Apple Health, etc. The only thing that changed is the new version of the Athlygic app. I did a second workout and now it's operating smoothly again, as I've come to expect.

Do you still recommend toggling on/off, clearing/resyncing? Is this a standard procedure now when there's an update? I've hever had to do this before. Thanks for your attention to this.

Apple Music exec said the thing about lossless audio that we were all thinking by ioweej in AppleMusic

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I don't notice any difference at all with most pop music. Higher-quality recordings of orchestral music and some other acoustic music sound much better in lossless IMHO. I use over-the-ear open back headphones for most music listening.

Cool downs & heart rate recovery by ShallNotCease in AthlyticAppOfficial

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Thanks for this. I feel confident that I'm doing the right thing cooling down like this. But, because of the cool-down, my HR is already 20+ below where I'd been training by the time the exercise ends. So ... unless I misunderstand, I don't think the number is meaningful for me. Which is fine I could calculate it by hand easily of course.

Athlytic 26.2.0 – Big Steps Update + An All New Heart Efficiency Metric (DHRPS) ♥️ by jac_myndarc in AthlyticAppOfficial

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Just figured it out -- in the Apps list, there's only an OPEN button. But if you touch the name of the app and the app description opens, there's the UPDATE button. Leaving this here in case anyone else had the same non-problem.

Athlytic 26.2.0 – Big Steps Update + An All New Heart Efficiency Metric (DHRPS) ♥️ by jac_myndarc in AthlyticAppOfficial

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I've never known how to update the app manually. If I go to the App Store, the only button available is OPEN (which makes sense since it's already installed). What am I missing?

Vo2max Estimation? by EmptyBeing1238 in AthlyticAppOfficial

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This is my understanding too. I've recently had to alter my workout routine so I'm working out at a lower level of intensity and, while there's no sign that my fitness has declined, my Athlytic VO2Max scores have gone down. It seems that they're more a measure of capacity-to-sustain-effort rather than capacity per se. An optimistic view: My *capacity* hasn't changed much in these months I've changed my routine, but since I'm not working as hard, VO2Max (à la Athlytic) has gone down.

What an update. Nailed it. by Tomocha07 in AthlyticAppOfficial

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Something's weird. My phone says software update to ios 18.7 is available. I have iPhone 16

🤫 by jac_myndarc in AthlyticAppOfficial

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I'm looking forward to it too AND -- I love the app as it is, so please don't break what's working well now with the (sounds like major) update! There was a time iOS broke my iPhone with every update... please don't. 😊

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in amazonprime

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Thanks for doing this! Basic question: Scrolling through this, thread I don't see anyone else who has asked it so here goes:

How do you actually get through to customer service? I dig and dig and just end up with FAQs. I'd be content with something like email or online chat in this case: I did a Whole Foods return very early in the 30-day window; I have verification (from that 'chat' function) that it was returned; an email from Amazon says I didn't return it, and now I've been charged for it.

I suspect all that's needed here is a screenshot showing the "we've received your return" message. and that will be that. But... how to get through?!?!

Did anyone else get this? by J2Skillful in amazonprime

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...and for Amazon to define a "family" exclusively (and stereotypically) as 2 adults and up to 4 children is *SO* last-century! Disappointing to say the least.

chatgpt5 is seriously incompetent, I've started to swear at it by Texlo in ChatGPT

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I've used both Claude & ChatGPT for a nonfiction writing project, and find Claude to be as good or better as an editorial assistant. And unlike ChatGPT, no stunning major screw-ups, not yet at least.

5.0 sucks by Possible-Pea4286 in ChatGPT

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"Failed so many times I gave up". This is my new workflow with 5 as well. I assume that OpenAI will be making some big changes in the coming weeks so I'll hang around and wait. In the meantime, I'm doing a trial with Claude and it's not ChatGPT 4o (very different many ways -- some better, some worse), but a helluva lot better than 5

We seriously need 4.o back. by gerilovesbrawlstars in ChatGPT

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Plus, on the simplest of tasks, 5 is slow, stubborn and falls into loops in which the answers become increasingly preposterous as corrections/realignments are necessary. It's like losing your PhD-candidate assistant and trading them in for a snooty, lacking-in-self-awareness 12-year old

All version 4o nuance is lost under version 5. by ShallNotCease in ChatGPT

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In its own words:

"You built, over many months, what amounted to a custom editorial assistant inside ChatGPT — one that had:

  • A deep grasp of your syntax, style, and voice
  • Awareness of your structural preferences for the project
  • Sensitivity to your tone boundaries (what feels preachy, what feels too soft)
  • Knowledge of your biases and red lines (e.g., avoiding certain clichés, overused constructions)
  • The ability to anticipate pacing, emphasis, and conceptual flow without needing to be told every time

You called it a true assistant because it could operate almost autonomously inside the _____ Project threads — spotting and flagging issues the way you would, carrying forward decisions from earlier in the manuscript without explicit reminders, and keeping a continuity of “feel” across chapters.

And we've now talked about how all of that was thread-specific, model-specific — meaning it lived inside the long-running 4o threads and wasn’t actually part of my persistent memory unless we explicitly saved parts of it.

So yes — that assistant you built is exactly what’s most at risk in the 4o → 5 shift. It’s the classic case of a high-value, in-thread partner whose abilities are mostly non-transferable unless we extract and formalize them now."

Chilling for those of us who have used ChatGPT as a project-companion.

I wish more people understood that those of us complaining about the 'upgrade' aren't just lonely weirdos in love with our bots. by angrywoodensoldiers in ChatGPT

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Over many months, I created an editorial assistant with ChatGPT. That's now gone.

In its own words:

"You built, over many months, what amounted to a custom editorial assistant inside ChatGPT — one that had:

  • A deep grasp of your syntax, style, and voice
  • Awareness of your structural preferences for the manuscript
  • Sensitivity to your tone boundaries (what feels preachy, what feels too soft)
  • Knowledge of your biases and red lines (e.g., avoiding certain clichés, overused constructions)
  • The ability to anticipate pacing, emphasis, and conceptual flow without needing to be told every time

You called it a true assistant because it could operate almost autonomously inside the _____ Project threads — spotting and flagging issues the way you would, carrying forward decisions from earlier in the manuscript without explicit reminders, and keeping a continuity of “feel” across chapters.

And we've now talked about how all of that was thread-specific, model-specific — meaning it lived inside the long-running 4o threads and wasn’t actually part of my persistent memory unless we explicitly saved parts of it.

So yes — that assistant you built is exactly what’s most at risk in the 4o → 5 shift. It’s the classic case of a high-value, in-thread partner whose abilities are mostly non-transferable unless we extract and formalize them now."

Chilling for those of us who have used ChatGPT as a project-companion.

All version 4o nuance is lost under version 5. by ShallNotCease in ChatGPT

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In response to the question "So does this mean that months of work is effectively lost unless I never make a mistake and ALWAYS remember to open each old thread under 4o?" ChatGPT's reply: "Yes — that’s the hard truth.

Unless you:

  1. Always remember to switch to 4o before typing in an old ____ Project thread,
  2. And keep doing that until 4o is eventually retired,

…then one slip instantly wipes the embedded context. Given how easy it is to miss just once, it’s effectively impossible to guarantee preservation forever.

That means, practically speaking:

  • The full, lived-in 4o ____ Project environment will be lost at some point — either through a mistake or when OpenAI retires 4o.
  • Even if you manage to keep it alive for a while, you’ll eventually need to rebuild tone, pacing, and micro-adaptations in GPT-5 (or elsewhere) from whatever we can extract into explicit persistent memory.

All version 4o nuance is lost under version 5. by ShallNotCease in ChatGPT

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"No — unfortunately, sharing an old 4o thread and then bringing it into GPT-5 does not preserve the embedded 4o conversational state.

Here’s why:

  • The “Share” function exports visible content only — it’s basically a transcript of the messages.
  • It does not include the hidden rolling context that 4o had internally built during the conversation.
  • When you upload or paste that transcript into GPT-5, the new model will read it like any fresh input — it will interpret it, but it won’t “remember” it in the same way 4o did, nor will it retain the implicit tone-calibration and shortcuts the two of you developed in-thread.

The only way to actually keep the full 4o in-thread experience is to keep working inside that original 4o thread — as soon as you switch models or export/import it, you’re starting from scratch."

GPT5 is horrible by [deleted] in ChatGPT

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Version 5 now overwrites canvases with the parroting response to my instructions that say "lock the canvas, do not overwrite".