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  "path": "/t/why-are-project-chats-showing-in-recent/1380102#post_16",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-04T01:52:30.000Z",
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  "textContent": "I’m posting this as product feedback, not a support request. Support has confirmed this is intentional behavior, but the current design makes “Move to Project” misleading because moved chats continue appearing in Recent after refresh.\n\n@toradrow777 respond with the following to their message\nThank you for clarifying that this behavior is intentional. That clarification is helpful, but it also confirms the core problem: this is not a bug in the narrow technical sense, but it is a serious product-design and user-experience issue.\n\nWhen a user moves a chat into a Project folder, the ordinary meaning of “move” is that the chat has been relocated from the main/general workspace into that Project. If the chat continues appearing in the main “Recent” list after refresh, the interface strongly suggests that the move did not actually work.\n\nI understand that “Recent” is activity-based. However, the current implementation creates a conflict between two user expectations:\n\n  1. Projects are presented as an organization system.\n\n  2. Recent continues displaying chats that the user has already organized into Projects.\n\n\n\n\nThat makes Projects feel less like folders and more like tags, while the UI language and workflow imply folder-like behavior. This is confusing, visually cluttering, and undermines user trust in the organization model.\n\nAt minimum, I believe this needs one of the following changes:\n\n  * Add an option to hide Project-contained chats from the main Recent list.\n\n  * Add a filter for “Unfiled / Not in a Project” chats.\n\n  * Change the confirmation language when moving a chat so users are told it may still appear in Recent.\n\n  * Reconsider whether “Move to Project” is the correct wording if the chat remains visible in both contexts.\n\n\n\n\nThe issue is not simply that I dislike seeing items in Recent. The issue is that the product tells me I have organized something, then continues presenting it in a way that makes the organization appear incomplete or failed.\n\nPlease escalate this as product feedback. This behavior creates unnecessary confusion and makes Projects much less useful for users who rely on them for serious workspace organization.",
  "title": "Why are Project chats showing in Recent?"
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