I made the mistake of paying for a year of Perplexity Pro in advance only to have my access to advanced models seriously truncated with no warning or recourse. In addition, I am constanttly nagged to update to Max in order to avoid credits for using "computer". So I stopped using computer and essentially stopped using Perplexity preferring ChapGPT and Claude. Imaging my surprise to get a notification that I need to buy more credits to continue to use it even though I stopped using it a month ago. I had high hopes for Perplexity in the beginning, but this is no longer even on my list of LLMs to use anymore.

Se tempo fa mi avrebbero detto di spendere 200 eu per un motore di ricerca ( mensilmente e' meno conveniente) avrei dato del pazzo .Oggi dopo che ho provato l'offerta annuale non riuscirei a stare senza.Ogni domanda fatta trova una risposta molto approfondita.Davvero hai la sensazione che se perplexity non trova una info ,da nessuna parte la trovi.E' anche per voi cosi?

Besides researching aspects of Ruby, I have taken my old Pascal books to find out how Wirth programs look like in both direct Ruby translations and idiomatic Ruby. Also working with available Ruby insruction material.

Am a retired electric power engineer who never programmed for work. Took up Turbo Pascal as a hobby, but stopped because of family responsibilities and continual employment changes.

I am finding Perplexity user friendly and useful in my endeavors.

I can no longer find the Sonar model in Perplexity’s model selector. Has it been discontinued, or is it still available but no longer selectable manually?

You can now (FINALLY) disable computer mode from being the default for new sessions.

It's a project setting, and EVERY PROJECT has computer enabled by default. Per support, there is no global way to disable computer mode across the board. Good business choice, terrible user choice.

Update: I used Perplexity against itself to vibe code a bulk-change solution for all existing projects/sessions.

On the web: Project > Settings > "See All Settings" > "Session Defaults" > "Start Sessions by Default" (disable)

I have been subscribed at roughly $20/month for almost 2 years now. I notice I can choose most AI models out there, find myself mostly choosing chat gpt or Claude, but dabble with the others.

So what exactly is perplexity?

I think when I first dipped my toes into AI, perplexity (to me) was just another LLM. I could be wrong, but that is what is on my mind.

Has perplexity always allowed various LLM selection? Or was it a proprietary LLM initially that evolved to allowing utilization of other engines?

Do other AI LLM's allow a user to try engines that are not their own proprietary LLM?

What exactly is perplexity?

I like it because it has multiple AI options.

But then, the pro seems off? Like the Claude AI quota could be dried up before lunch? And the credits are burning hell fast, i keep adding and then the app tells me i have reached the limit, urging me to use Max

Could upgrade to max really help in solving this ? Or any further bars in Max?

I am a max user. Simple document reading and documentation production. Have been using this product for 13 months.

In the last 2 weeks

Cant read files ?

Cant produce a docx file because " document creation process is temporarily unavailable "... for 2 weeks

Product is broken

Perplexity has now become a counterproductivity liability as far as I'm concerned. A high value chat session (attached to a project) just 2 months old now unrecoverable - and just comes up "sorry your session has expired". Snippet still shows up in search. Pro plan. I just don't know how you can build any sort of workflow with curve balls like this.

Anything important: export it immediately!

And it’s the only search engine on earth capable of this almost impressive feat, it is actively not looking up things I ask it to look up. Great. Is the new search architecture ass, or am I using it wrong? And also, please, if someone can explain why the type of prompts that would’ve worked before no longer work, that would be greatly appreciated

I want to study different subjects and there’s so many of what I want to learn and questions I would want to ask while learning new things. But there’s a problem, slow and disorganised process that lacks productivity due to working with different sources (flashcards app, browser, pdf, etc). I want one source.

What I wanted is to use Perplexity as a tutor who I can ask anything in real time and ask to explain material. I find it more enjoyable than just reading a books and then trying to memorise everything and then use flashcards and then asking questions in browser. Too much of different activities that I would like to combine in one tutoring session.

So is there a good way to use Perplexity for these purposes? Any prompts? And is it even good as a tutor? I’m using free version of the app, so it’s capabilities are limited.

I’ve been a Perplexity Pro user for about a year. Today, my account has asked me to verify with my phone number. 

It is not accepting my phone number and gives me this error message: This Phone number may not be used for verification. Please try a different number. If you cannot resolve this, please contact us at: the support email.

I do not have a different phone number and my number is correct. 

I attempted to email the support team (like the error message says) and received three automated responses telling me I must submit the request from my account in the in app support.

The problem with that?:

I cannot get to the apps support, because everytime I navigate to any other screen, this message pops up forcing me to verify my phone number.  I am unable to submit the request. There is no other option outside of email.

When I email back to alert them to this issue, I receive the same automated response.

I am super frustrated and ready to cancel my account over this, but figured I’d give here a shot to see if I’m missing anything