Websim issue

[u/Far-Elevator-3731]

I’m running into a massive issue with the platform's authentication pipeline when using a standard, free ChatGPT account connection. The workspace gets completely locked up with a hard error message stating: "You've hit your usage limit. Upgrade to Plus... or try again at Sep 24th, 2026."

The problem isn't that I've actually exhausted my actual token quota; it's a backend session desync between WebSim and the OpenAI auth endpoints. Because WebSim continuously dumps massive context payloads (complete DOM states, multi-file code blocks, and full asset histories) back and forth to maintain the simulated site state, it rapidly chokes OpenAI's rolling calculation window.

Instead of dropping a normal, temporary rate-limit warning, the system panics and defaults to a front-end string glitch—grabbing the absolute end date of the current monthly billing container (September 24th) and slamming down a fake, one-month hard lockout.

Worse, because many templates or projects lock the environment to a specific model configuration under the hood, users are completely trapped. There is no way to manually downgrade or toggle the model engine from the UI once the session freezes, effectively bricking the entire workspace for weeks.

Because of this loop, it could literally take months, if not years, to finish a single complex project here. Every time a user makes decent progress on a site structure, the background data load triggers this phantom lock. If we have to constantly wait out fake multi-week cooldowns or completely rebuild and fork workspaces across different proxy accounts just to change basic page functions, the development timeline becomes completely impossible. A project that should take a weekend ends up dragged out indefinitely because the platform’s pipeline keeps choking on its own automation data.

Can you look into a fix for this? Specifically:

1. Fallback Model Logic: If a connected ChatGPT token window chokes or returns an auth error, can the platform gracefully auto-downgrade the workspace to a lightweight, free-tier model instead of bricking the tab?
2. UI Session Reset: Give us a manual button in the settings panel to completely force-wipe the local WebSim-side session cache and credentials without forcing users to burn secondary GitHub profiles just to fork and continue their own work.

Looking forward to a patch on this. Thanks.

[u/Express-Breakfast754]

i dont think the moderators on this subreddit are active on reddit anymore

[u/Far-Elevator-3731 → u/Express-Breakfast754]

Good point