Unable to context switch across multiple chats of an Agent.

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Context:

I've created an agent in Dify. I've a use-case where I want to open 3 chats of this agent and run chats in them concurrently (Ex: if one chat is thinking or calling some tool it might take time, meanwhile I can go and run another chat). To check if Dify can support this use case, I did the following experiment:

• Created a chat asked it to tell me a story about software engineers. Now clicked on "create chat" and basically switched context to a new chat, even before I could submit any request in the new chat, when I click on the old chat's thread, the response (which was previously streaming) had stopped and become blank (see screenshot below for ref):
  

Tech Insights

I did some tech dive and found the following:

• When the user context switches from a running_chat to a different chat, a "stop" API call is made by the UI for the running_chat.
  
• On diving into the api code I figured out that there exist ChatMessageStopAPI and CompletionMessageStopAPI (Ref) implementations.

Questions:

1. My understanding with this experiment is that, by design Dify can only support 1 chat at a time and even creating a new chat (of the same agent) it will stop any previously running chat (which was let's say streaming a long response) . Is my understanding correct?
2. If yes, a possible workaround i can think of is just to comment out the "stop" call from the frontend and expect that every thread would keep running. Would this work? If not am I missing something?