Unpopular opinion: the constant "ChatGPT is dead" posts are doing more harm than the filters
I'll take the downvotes.
Every single day it's another ChatGPT is finally dead, 5.x killed it, cancelling my sub. I get the frustration, I really do. But we've turned this place into a funeral that's been running for nine months straight.
Here's the thing. It came back after January. It came back after October. It came back after the 5.1 panic. Every doom wave was followed by people quietly figuring out a setup that works again. The folks who still get good output aren't posting it's over forty times a week, they're just using it.
The nonstop dead posts also train new people to give up before they try. Someone shows up, sees thirty it's joever threads, and never bothers learning what still works.
Vent, sure. But maybe we balance it with what's actually working instead of only screaming into the coffin.
Am I wrong, or are we kind of doing this to ourselves?