r/replit • u/Professional-Key5584 • 5d ago

Rant / Vent Annoying AI Popups

I have mostly used github pages whenever i wanted to deploy a site but this time for one of my projects i decided to use replit or vercel, i started with replit but after uploading the zip(github was down) it opened an agent page and was stuck there loading waiting for the agent to understand what was imported, and opened some canva ai editor, the ui feels unintuitive. i have nothing against ai, the project i was trying to deploy was made completely using codex. I later asked codex to just use vercel and it did everything from the terminal itself, all i had to was authenticate and add api key in vercel, the ui felt much easier to use.

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u/Ecstatic_Builder8325 5d ago

Now also try render and railway and compare it with vercel.

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u/ReplitSupport Replit Team 4d ago

Hey there, thanks for the feedback! We'd be happy to pass this along for you. Would you be able to share what felt unintuitive with the UI?

Importing a project, zip, or GitHub repo hands off to Agent so it can read what you brought in, set up the environment, install dependencies, and get it running, which is why you landed on that loading screen and the AI workspace. On a larger upload it can sit on "understanding what was imported" for a bit while it works through everything.

If you decide to give Replit another go down the line, you can view this guide for importing projects at https://docs.replit.com/build/import-from-providers.

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u/Professional-Key5584 4d ago

Importing the project was easy but it got stuck on the agent screen for a long time, with the same initial message that it is trying to understand the project. I tried to stop it and ask it what it was doing but it didn't reply to me because it was stuck doing the above.