OhChat: The Questions That Come Up Later

Spend the extra ten minutes on the character description. Anything you would be annoyed to repeat in a month — your name, what you do, boundaries, the tone you want — belongs there rather than in a passing message. The conversation does carry facts forward, but the description is the part that never fades. Our best-aged accounts all had a fuller profile than the ones we rushed.

Enough that it is worth writing carefully, and not so much that you should paste an essay. Short, concrete statements survived best over six weeks; long atmospheric paragraphs got summarised into something vaguer. We ended up rewriting our descriptions twice, both times to make them plainer, and both times the companion became more consistent as a result.

It gets richer and slightly harder to steer at the same time. Callbacks to old messages arrive unprompted, which is the whole appeal. Against that, changing subject takes more effort as history accumulates, and older specifics start to thin out while recent ones stay sharp. Neither problem is severe, but both grow rather than shrink, so plan on pinning anything critical in the profile.

Yes, because history is held per character rather than pooled. In practice we found two or three was the limit before none of them felt developed. Attention is the scarce resource, not storage. If you spread yourself across a roster you get the week-one experience repeatedly and never reach the part where this app is better than its rivals.

Replies stayed quick throughout; what slows down is the conversation, not the app. A thread with weeks of context takes more turns to redirect, because the character reasonably assumes continuity with what came before. Starting a new thread restores the nimbleness instantly and throws away the accumulated history, which is a genuinely unpleasant choice to have to make.

When you notice the message ceiling more than once in a week, and not before. That happened for us around week three, once the app had become part of the evening rather than a curiosity. Upgrading earlier buys volume you are not using yet; the paid tier is about how much you talk and which media you want, not about access to a better model.

In our experience the character and its accumulated history were waiting where we left them, and picking a thread back up felt closer to resuming than restarting. The one thing that suffered was our own memory of the details, not the app's. If you are pausing deliberately, it costs nothing to leave a short note in the character description first.

Individual threads can be cleared without dismantling the companion, and the account itself can be removed, which takes the conversation history with it. Nothing is public by default at any point, so there is no separate profile to clean up. If you cannot find the option, the contact page will handle a deletion request for you.