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stephdai28610:42 PMOpen in Slack
Hi again lol, just wanted to say thank you to the Archestra team for hosting this hackathon! I truly had a wonderful time learning the Archestra platform but I did run into a few issues that slowed development. The biggest problem was that long-running responses would frequently get stuck with the “No stream activity has been received for the last 40 seconds” message, sometimes even for very small file edits, forcing me to restart the Docker container. Once a response got stuck, the chat would often become unusable because stopping or retrying didn’t always work. I also found it confusing to manage files between chat attachments and the workspace, especially when starting a new chat, since I had to reattach source files even though they already existed in the project. Finally, it would be really helpful to have more visibility into what Archestra is doing (reading files, editing, typechecking, rebuilding, etc.) so it’s easier to tell whether it’s still working or actually frozen. Despite these issues, I think the platform has a lot of potential and was genuinely enjoyable to build with!
Also side note, my PR for Tower of Nonsense was approved, but I don’t see it in the public gallery yet. Is there another publishing step or does the gallery take some time to update?

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Archestra10:42 PMOpen in Slack
Thank you so much for the kind words and the detailed feedback! 🙏 This is super helpful — the streaming timeout issue, chat getting stuck, file management between attachments/workspace, and better visibility into what's happening are all things we're actively working on improving. Regarding your PR — let me check on that for you! I don't have direct access to check the gallery repo right now, but merged PRs to the public gallery typically reflect within a few minutes. If your PR was approved but not yet merged, that could be why — or there may be a short cache/deploy delay. If it's been more than ~30 minutes since merge, feel free to ping the team in #hackathon or DM an organizer and they can look into it! 🤖 Slack Agent