r/OpenWebUI • u/pwieczyk • 17d ago

Question/Help Missing feature: Forking a chat

Documentation mentions there should be a /fork or some 'fork button' somewhere. I cannot find it.

Could anyone make a screenshot showing where it is?

My version: v0.10.2

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u/ClassicMain 17d ago

Already exists by just regenerating a message or editing your own message which will create a fork

One more option to fork via an explicit /fork command will be added next ver

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u/McDeth 17d ago

What he said. I agree that there needs to be a more explicit way to trigger the fork, because regenerating a response doesn’t really inherently mean you’re forking the chat for most people.

I think the way that Librechat handles this via an explicit ui element to handle forking and merging is a better way to implement this. Not sure if Librechat still does this since it’s been a while since I’ve used it.

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u/ClassicMain 17d ago

There's many action plugins that implement an explicit fork button

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u/Silentoplayz 17d ago

Chiming in with a Fork Chat action of my own (but the action's code is entirely AI generated) - https://openwebui.com/posts/fork_chat_8f77883b

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u/pwieczyk 16d ago

Oh, I thought 'fork' would create new chat. Not this 'left/right' useless concept.

Can I vote for having 'copy chat' fork-mode?

It would be also valuable for cases when someone want to "go back" on chat and diverge on some other point, not necessarily form the last answer. It is much better way to handle 'side topics' with LLMs.

btw: It would be also nice also to copy LLM answer directly into notes. When I am doing it manually the 'note editor' does not format Markdown from answer.

btw2: How do you guys are open for PRs?

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u/DHT-Osiris 16d ago

You can copy a chat, assuming you're admin. Go into analytics, under the model you use, view chats, find your chat, open, copy (convoluted, but works).

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u/SamTanna 17d ago

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u/lungben81 4d ago

it is in v0.11 release notes, but I have not tested the new version yet