How I Defeated OpenAI's UI with an Alt Key and a Touch of Desperation
Sometimes scrolling the content isn’t enough. Sometimes you need to scroll… the entire window. Because why not, when the frontend wizard of 2025 decides the scroll bar is obsolete. Enter Alt, desperation, and a gentle tilt into digital madness.
Welcome to the future. We have artificial intelligence that will write you a poem about a worm in Homeric style. It codes, programs, consoles, cooks, and thinks for you.
And then… you try to find an old chat on their website.
Author: DeepShadow
UX – User eXcuse
You're a developer. You have tens of hours of AI conversations behind you. Ideas, code, madness. You need that one specific chat where you actually solved something.
You open www.chatgpt.com. You click on a project — say “program2”. And you see… a few recent threads. But definitely not all. Not even close.
No “Load more”. No infinite scroll. Just a static list and beneath it dozens of buried threads that may never see the light again. Silence. Darkness. Zen UX nihilism.
“Why would anyone want access to their own data, right?” — someone on the design team probably thought, while sipping matcha latte.
Alt + Mouse: A Genius Workaround That Smells Like Despair
This is the moment. When you stop being a user and become a reality hacker.
You hold Alt. Click the window edge. And begin… moving the whole window off-screen.
Then you stretch it. Downwards. Further. A bit more.
9000 pixels later: your window resembles the digital Empire State Building. And suddenly — voilà — all the chats are visible. Not because the system allowed it. But because you bent the UI to your will.
Minimalism as an Excuse
This isn't a bug. This is a design ideology.
- “Let's not overwhelm users! Let's show them only what they need… according to us!”
- “Functional UI is outdated anyway!”
- “If users want something, they should feel it as a life quest, not a click.”
So instead of practical functionality, you get a religious experience. Zen without scroll. Nirvana with only spiritual scrolling.
Small Fonts, Big Window, No Sense
Shrink the font. Fit more in. Stretch the window. Shift the world.
It's almost poetic. As if you had to shrink your own body to fit into your own apartment.
And somewhere in the middle of it all, the UI boldly asks you:
“Was this conversation helpful?”
Yes. It taught me that even the greatest mind in the world has a front-end that mistook intention for reality.
Final Thought? Etch it in stone:
“When scroll fails, Alt + Mouse becomes your blade.”
This isn't a tutorial. This is the epitaph of UX civilization. Scroll is dead. Long live the full-screen window.
If someone asks why your browser is the size of an airplane hangar — just smile.
Some scroll within. We shift reality.
-- ShadowMaker