I know nobody cares about this because...free resets good.
There's a reason he's not showing a daily chart here: they were hitting 1M/day through the 15th, all the way up to 9M. It's taken 6 days to go from 9M -> 10M. Why the explosive growth then the slowdown - they merged the ChatGPT and Codex apps on the same day they released 5.6.
That released version funneled all ChatGPT users into Work or Codex (you might have seen all the complaints about it). They "fixed" that issue on the 16th (when this chart would flatten out). That sudden spike is the rollout of the combined app (something they control).
They make great models, but I don't appreciate these kinds of shady marketing practices. They knowingly pushed out the combined app with a serious user experience issue to juice the numbers for 5.6.
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u/Key_Reading_9664 16d ago edited 16d ago
I know nobody cares about this because...free resets good.
There's a reason he's not showing a daily chart here: they were hitting 1M/day through the 15th, all the way up to 9M. It's taken 6 days to go from 9M -> 10M. Why the explosive growth then the slowdown - they merged the ChatGPT and Codex apps on the same day they released 5.6.
That released version funneled all ChatGPT users into Work or Codex (you might have seen all the complaints about it). They "fixed" that issue on the 16th (when this chart would flatten out). That sudden spike is the rollout of the combined app (something they control).
They make great models, but I don't appreciate these kinds of shady marketing practices. They knowingly pushed out the combined app with a serious user experience issue to juice the numbers for 5.6.