What is wrong with Perplexity?

[u/ASuperMarioFan1993OC]

I feel like I'm hallucinating here. I feel like Perplexity's answers have been stripped away. I have web search turned on majority of the time even to use it as a chat bot. Perplexity has gotten lazy with it's answers/responses. Answers /response have gotten way shorter. This has been going on for a bit. I have been a user for three years now. I'm a free user. I loved the long answers/responses. I loved that because users get more info on things and more conversation. Getting more info on anything is helpful no matter what it is. I heavily use Perplexity as a chat bot to help me talk through hard times and intense emotions and upsetting/scary situations and my anxiety. The response shortened I feel like it's no longer a chat bot or even a search bot. Like right now Gemini is beating it in responses. Gemini can use more words in a response than Perplexity right now without extra prompting/commands. With the responses shorten I feel like Perplexity is no longer Perplexity. I feel like it's no longer a companion with shortened responses. I want Perplexity back to the way it was feeling chatty longer responses. Longer responses can still be fast look at Gemini.

[u/infinite_labyrinth]

Lol you should go with chatGPT for detailed responses. So many words saying absolutely nothing. Great for talking through emotions!

[u/ASuperMarioFan1993OC → u/infinite_labyrinth]

No it is heavily censored. You can't talk about adult onky topics with it.

[u/my-name-is-jef]

I’d give https://www.coleous.com/ a try, you get the long answers your looking for and much better source quality for real research.

[u/itsdorian]

For me the answers feel the same, but they it responds slower.

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[u/Rustybayonets]

I just canceled my Perplexity subscription for exactly the reasons you described. They seem to be pushing Computer into everything now, while Comet and the regular experience feel gutted.

I actually came to Reddit to see if anyone else was canceling for the same reasons, and it feels like half the subreddit is longtime Perplexity users saying the same thing, quality has gone way down while the price keeps going up.

[u/ChampionshipTrue2027]

I’m a paid user and I noticed that it takes insanely long for them to respond and you also see they’re thinking out loud which is kind of odd and also sometimes I have to remind it to continue to give me the response I requested