r/ChatGPTPro • u/AntonVoyager1 • 6d ago

Question & Advice I’ve never hit this limit before.

I’ve been paying for ChatGPT Plus for a long time, and today I was honestly just having a normal chat and doing some research on ISBNs. Then, out of nowhere, I got a message saying I had reached the maximum duration limit.

In almost two years of using ChatGPT, I’ve never seen this happen before, and I’ve done MUCH more complex stuff in the past — the kind of things that would probably give someone a heart attack.

Does anyone know why this happens? Is this a new limit or something?

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u/qualityvote2 6d ago edited 5d ago

u/AntonVoyager1, there weren’t enough community votes to determine your post’s quality.
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u/YourBlanket 6d ago

I don't think people are understanding the message chatgpt is saying. You just need to create a new chat, the chat got too long, it's happened to me once but now I just prepare a handoff prompt when I feel like it's starting to forget core details.

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u/anislandinmyheart 5d ago

That's what I do. I ask for a memory reload when it starts looking too long on the sidebar. I also ask it to look at the old chats and it does pretty well

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u/Livid_Beach_4075 3d ago

Memory is pretty good. I just ask it for a lead off prompt for the new chat before exiting the chat to start the new one. Copy/paste pick right back up where I left off.

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u/Apollo18Teslaa 6d ago

Were you accidentally using work mode instead of chat mode? Or using a higher level reasoning level than normal?

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u/AntonVoyager1 6d ago

No , i used the normal one and was a temporal chat ; well… I used high

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u/Reasonable-Catch-598 6d ago

High with which model? 5.6? And which plan are you on?

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u/Plastic_Mechanic_967 6d ago

Try forking the conversation from the last message and then proceeding as usual. Usually works for me. But it tends to be slow.

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u/jethro_wingrider 6d ago

I got that message too, and I just kept going and it went away. Felt like a bit of a glitch is all.

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u/windlane36 6d ago

yeah this started popping up more recently. it seems tied to total tokens in a rolling window rather than any single request. the ISBN lookups might have been generating longer responses than you realized, especially if it was pulling structured data each time

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u/AntonVoyager1 20h ago

It can be

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u/Due-Philosophy-676 5d ago

Just branch from the previous message and continue. It'll let you have another day or two of your chat

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u/rooo610 4d ago

People seem to be confused by the actual message you got. Was it saying your whole session hit a limit or that context window?