AI answers never arrive, stall mid-research, or cut off
Category: Bugs Priority: P1 Severity: major Area: ai-answers Reports: 4 Status: Open
Summary
Four users report the core Q&A flow failing to deliver: questions get no response at all (including follow-up questions in an existing chat), the app repeatedly shows a connection-failure error when searching, answers cut off at unpredictable spots so the user must ask it to "resume", and research mode stalls "thinking" with the answer only completing by itself minutes or even hours later. This is an intermittent but recurring reliability failure of the app's primary function, reported over a 2.5-week span (2026-08-07 to 2026-08-23) and still occurring as of the most recent report. One user contrasts the silence with ChatGPT answering the same follow-up thoroughly. Abdellatif replied to all four threads; on 2026-08-24 he told the latest reporter the team is fixing it now, and on 2026-08-13 he noted the team was dealing with "a very large volume of messages right now" — consistent with load-related failures after the V1 launch.
What users say
Saleh bin Haydah (صالح بن حيدة) salhbnhydt35@gmail.com
- Date: 2026-08-23 | Language: Arabic | Thread:
1a02f97aba6f3b78| Replied: yes
Thanks the team for the blessed effort, but reports the app very often fails to respond with search results and repeatedly shows a connection-failure error. Abdellatif replied (2026-08-24): "نعم نعمل على اصلاح المشكلة الان" (yes, we are working on fixing the problem now).
هناك مشكلة في عدم استجابة في كثير من المرات لنتائج البحث ويكرر فشل الاتصال..
There is a problem where many times it does not respond with search results, and it repeatedly shows connection failure.
K. A ahmek046@hotmail.co.uk
- Date: 2026-08-21 | Language: English | Thread:
1a024b159dfae3c0| Replied: yes
Asked two questions in the app and received no response at all; attached a screenshot. Abdellatif replied a fix was being worked on.
As salaamu alaikum I asked two questions but no response Do see attached
Giacomo Le Bourgeois giacomo.lebourgeois@gmail.com
- Date: 2026-08-12 | Language: English | Thread:
19ff796cb7da18d3| Replied: yes
Daily user (early adopter, French/Italian revert) reporting two related failures in one email: (1) answers cut off at very unpredictable spots, requiring a "resume" prompt; (2) research mode stops "thinking" and the answer only completes by itself after minutes or hours — it has happened more than once. Abdellatif confirmed both are being worked on.
First: while reflecting, sometimes the app cuts its answer in very unpredictable spots, and it becomes needed to ask it to resume its answer. Second: sometimes the app decides to... stop thinking during research, though the app seems to finish the answer by itself after a few minutes or hours. It has happened more than once, so I just thought I'd mention it to you.
Ala Din alauddin@me.com
- Date: 2026-08-07 | Language: English | Thread:
19fdcdf7827d8a99| Replied: yes
Compared Qaf's tafsir answers with ChatGPT: asked a follow-up question to explore the topic further and Qaf did not respond at all, while ChatGPT gave a thorough explanation. (Same email also notes brief default answers and missing text selection/copy on iPhone.)
I also asked a follow-up question to explore the topic further. Unfortunately, Qaf did not respond at all, whereas ChatGPT provided a thorough and insightful explanation.
Details / repro
- Failure modes:
1. No response at all to a new question — two questions in a row unanswered (
1a024b159dfae3c0, screenshot attached). 2. No response specifically to a follow-up question in an existing conversation (19fdcdf7827d8a99). 3. Repeated "connection failed" error when requesting search results (1a02f97aba6f3b78). 4. Answer stream truncates mid-response at unpredictable points; asking "resume" continues it (19ff796cb7da18d3). 5. Research mode stalls in "thinking" and the answer materializes on its own minutes-to-hours later — suggesting the backend job completes but the client stream/notification is lost (19ff796cb7da18d3). - Intermittent/recurring; reported 2026-08-07 through 2026-08-23. Coincides with the post-launch traffic wave ("we're getting subhanallah a very large volume of messages right now" — Abdellatif, 2026-08-13).
- Evidence: screenshot attached by K. A; multiple recurrences confirmed by Giacomo (daily use).
- The follow-up-specific silence overlaps in behavior with the "DONE" token bug (see raw-code-in-answers, thread
19fdcacc9a4a0e9a), where follow-ups repeatedly fail — worth investigating together.
Threads
1a02f97aba6f3b78— Frequent "connection failed" errors; search results not responding (Saleh bin Haydah)1a024b159dfae3c0— Two questions asked, no response at all; screenshot (K. A)19ff796cb7da18d3— Answers cut off unpredictably; research stalls then completes hours later (Giacomo Le Bourgeois)19fdcdf7827d8a99— Follow-up question got no response, unlike ChatGPT (Ala Din)