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[GH-ISSUE #22253] feat: this project is out of control #90414
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Originally created by @meremortals70 on GitHub (Mar 5, 2026).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues/22253
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Problem Description
This project is out of control, there is a an absolute lack of governance.
I am running quadlet defined podman containers inside a pod.
Every time I update the image, it then sits there and downloads a heap of files. As a container is ephemeral every restart does the same thing because downloaded files are lost at reboot.
Last month there was a promise that 7.3 would be released to fix with MCP tools and guess what it didn't happen weeks go by and then suddenly 8.x.x is released.
I think I have made up my mind to move away, as the devs are not listening to the community, they are not included good features, I am not sure what they are doing. The roadmap is disorganised and disjointed and cannot make any correlation between it and the constant stream of "new features"
Desired Solution you'd like
something that is not constantly breaking
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AnythingLLM for a better RAG outcome
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@ShirasawaSama commented on GitHub (Mar 5, 2026):
I suspect this is caused by the
unstructuredlibrary. I find its documentation extremely poorly written, and it downloads massive amounts of files every time it runs. There also seems to be no way to pre-download these files.For actual production environments, I personally recommend setting up a separate file parsing service. This avoids impacting OpenWebUI and significantly reduces the size of the packaged image.
If you absolutely must use Unstructured, I suggest trying to call its API during image build to parse pre-placed documentation files, triggering automatic downloads.
@Classic298 commented on GitHub (Mar 5, 2026):
Mcp tools are fixed in 0.8.x though?
Feel free to open an actual issue if you have any problems still.
@gaby commented on GitHub (Mar 7, 2026):
@meremortals70 I do agree, the project is very disorganized. That said, even with all the issues and bugs this project has, I haven't found anything else remotely close to what OpenWebUI offers.
@meremortals70 commented on GitHub (Mar 7, 2026):
Depends what you are looking for. I have had to stop the container as it downloaded 500GB in 24 hours, nothing in logs
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@gaby commented on GitHub (Mar 7, 2026):
@meremortals70 sounds like you didnt configure the data directory properly, so it's redownloading the models every time it boots.
@meremortals70 commented on GitHub (Mar 7, 2026):
No, it was working just fine for a few months then latest update set this off nothing changed except the image.
In the process of setting up an alternative
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