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  denysvitali
  Their installer (curl | sh) was taking so long yesterday for me.It turns out it's incredibly slow... because of the progress bar rendering. This is insane. The installer took 6 minutes to reach 10%:curl -fsSL https://opencode.ai/v2/install | bashManaged to fix it by running this instead:curl -fsSL https://opencode.ai/v2/install | bash 2>&1 | cat
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  solarkraft
  It's good.Many of the annoyances from V1 are gone. Skills and plugins reload automatically (finally). Tasks can be backgrounded (though I think this doesn't happen automatically yet). There's a built-in skill for editing the configuration (finally I can retire mine). The front-end got some love. Apparently they re-architected the loop around Effect. Sub-sessions can be communicated with better. Configuration is loaded from the folder the session is created in rather than where the server was started.In general, this update largely takes OpenCode into the current age features-wise and is a good overhaul quality-wise. Just in time to stop my early switching away efforts, which would've been a pain because I know few other harnesses with such a strong server/client model.
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  afruitpie
  Native apps connecting to the OpenCode server is a great way to run sessions on remote hosts!I wish Claude Code would adopt the same model. The desktop app deploys a separate engine that restarts and clobbers long-running sessions upon reconnect (Remote Control is their recommended solution but requires a Claude.ai account).I’ve been vibe coding a native macOS Claude Code app that spawns a server that wraps Claude Code on remote hosts, but the UX and features are always lagging behind.
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  unrented7977
  Wait, but OpenCode got renamed to Crush and the original dev went on to that new project. Where did this come from? Is this a fork? Who is behind it?
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  my002
  I really hope we don't get a slew of WebGL-intensive sites.
• kbrannigan
  With websites i went back to 90s styles. Hyper dense in information. Anything clickable is a link. A button is for Write actions.Interactive element are distinct from text.If webpage page is an interactive canvas , make the canvas the main thing ad text as support.If you start mixing the two idk..
• vadepaysa
  I love opencode, but not this website. so difficult to use.
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  dormento
  My notebook took up flight and launched itself through the window and died trying to render this site.
• sksduck
  Otherwise called OpenMemoryLeak, it eats memory like a piece of cake.
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  nater5000
  Based on this post, it sounds like a ton of great improvements.I've only used OpenCode a bit, but I found it was sufficient for the workloads I was throwing at it. It wasn't quite enough to beat out Codex or Claude Code as my go-to choice, though. Perhaps I'll give this version a shot and see if they've gotten it over the hump.
• nfriedly
  I've been using OpenCode 2.0 indirectly via OpenChamber 2.0 and I've been very happy with it.Once I got past the initial hurdle of having to upgrade my server and clients all at once, everything has been smooth sailing.
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  tomrod
  Nice work!Are there any recommended sandbox patterns to use? Custom linux users or bubblewrap and managing openbao is getting to be a lot to manage each harness by themselves!
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  archerjax
  Is this related to https://opencode.ai/?
• Saris
  What the heck is this website, it completely locks up the tab it's in for 15 seconds and none of the text shows up at all until it finishes.
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  kingds
  it feels like a clear improvement across the board but a heads up: i got bitten by upgrading - since all tool calls now go through the background process, the sandbox that i use to wrap the TUI process quietly became useless. took me a day or two to realize that web fetches, etc. which should have been blocked were succeeding.
• LaurensBER
  Interesting and I'll definitely give this a try, the client/server and plugin system do look very powerful.However, I've been using OMP in combination with Tern (the terminal) lately and it's an incredibly smooth operation. It's hard to find a decent terminal on Windows (corporate device) but this is the best I've found so far.
• 361994752
  The background task / subagent feature and the ability to specify a model when starting a subagent are so far my favorite improvements. Small things but make huge QoL difference in everyday development.
• oblongsquare69
  I enjoy this program, and 2.0 is a great improvement.
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  amelius
  I'm a Vim user and I actually like the web interface of AI better than the TUIs, which is weird perhaps.
• mawadev
  The site took a minute to load in completely and when I scrolled to the bottom I couldn't read the SDK text, it was literally cut off, kinda resembling the current state of coding very accurately lmao
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  montroser
  OpenCode is a beast. Does it still try to take a disk snapshot of my working directory, even when it contains hundreds of millions of files? Does it still eat all of my memory? Does it still have a super-gigantic system prompt that wastes a solid percentage of my context window before I've even begun?I switched to pi some months ago, and I have no complaints. It just does what it says, with no shenanigans. They updated the rendering approach recently so scrollback is nice and smooth now.
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  MatthiasPortzel
  For me the distinguishing feature of OpenCode is the web ui/desktop app. I’m using OpenCode because it’s the only open-source agent-harness I’ve tried that runs outside of a TUI. I like terminals but not TUIs and especially not for prose-based interactions like prompting.But that’s a shallow moat, and the rest of the features here are not particularly interesting to me. I don’t have a use for plugins or a model-server proxy (I can connect other tools directly to the model provider).
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  0xbadcafebee
  Same OpenCode team who ignore bug reports, don't respond on their discord, don't have modern CI/CD test suites (often shipping regressions), don't have bots to triage bug reports or PRs, and have what might be the worst open model subscription service available today.OpenCode users: switching to Pi takes about 5 minutes, and customizing it to work just like OpenCode takes another 30 minutes. Better design, better devs, better community.
• markerz
  This game is quite interestingly fun despite how basic it is.
• aniceperson
  having a daemon PID helps for web gui, but may bite in unexpected ways under extensive parallization.
• emerongi
  I had no clue you have to scroll down.
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  esafak
  OC is all right -- it's my daily driver -- but it could be better. I'd like a harness to let me customize the GUI, not just add MCPs and plugins. For example, I'd like add buttons to merge a PR, and show indicators for CI. Claude Code does a lot of this out of the box. Give me UI building blocks (buttons, labels, etc.) and wire them with my own functions. Could Code Mode enable this?The built-in browser is a most welcome feature.PS(A): Opencode Go is a great deal and now has a $40 plan.
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  rfgplk
  Goes to check the repo out> TypeScriptConsidering the whole thing is LLM produced I would like an explicit answer as to why C++ or Rust weren't used to write the project in.
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  suprjami
  2.0 is a big disappointment so far.Several basic things don't work, like hiding the sidebar.With 3.2k open GitHub issues there's no point reporting anything.
• keyle
  I was annoyed that it takes just as much ram if not more than 1.0
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  moralestapia
  These guys stole money from me. It amounts to like 10 US or something, so not significant, but still...Their models have pricing published in their docs, like any other LLM provider. I measured the tokens I consumed, did the math, and it was always off, in their favor. One model (GPT Luna) was about 2x as expensive as advertised.I joined their Discord, which is apparently how you get support from them. I filed a bug and someone from their team replied, we verified the data, and he said that something was indeed off and that he'd escalate it. Then silence. After 2–3 weeks, I followed up and was now ignored.As I said, the amount isn't material to me, but if they do this a million times, they could make some decent money out of it. No idea if it's on purpose, I'll leave that to the reader to speculate.Overall, their complete lack of interest after acknowledging the "bug" left a really bad taste in my mouth, so I decided to leave.
• fg137
  > We've built a minimal JavaScript interpreterHuh?
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• anon
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  tontinton
  Everyone copies https//maki.sh. I've been the first!