# Froggeric Qwen Fixed Chat Templates

Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/qwen-fixed-chat-templates/

10 people recommended Froggeric Qwen Fixed Chat Templates in Hacker News comments and none criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 12 months, in 8 threads. It does not meet the Hacker Approved badge rule.

7 of the 10 people who recommend it commented in one thread, “Qwen 3.8 27B is out: open weights, best local dense model yet”.

**Verdict:** Community-made Jinja chat templates for Qwen models that fix tool calling and effort selection and let users reduce or turn off thinking.

Summary written by Claude from 15 comments.

## Why people recommend it

- Fixes upstream Qwen template bugs (4 comments in the sample): "there is a template that is supposed to fix the updates for the Qwen Models" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48182997)) "These templates actually fix the effort selection for LM Studio/3.8" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49309813)) "one of the bugfixed chat templates like the Froggeric version" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49014605))
- Reduces or turns off thinking (4 comments in the sample): "use this [0] to reduce or turn off thinking, fix tool calling, keep a 100% KV cache hit rate" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49301556)) "set thinking to minimal and use these jinja templates" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49458183)) "Reduce or turn down thinking" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49301539))
- Recommended by many Hacker News users (4 comments in the sample): "Oh, that's cool, I saw those and I did wonder!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49309966)) "Thank you, this is exactly what I needed." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49302060)) "Don't sleep on the froggeric templates." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49529684))
- Fixes effort selection and tool calling (1 comment in the sample): "Given that it apparently defaults to 'xhigh', this is probably the answer." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49302113))

## The badge

A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged.

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Froggeric Qwen Fixed Chat Templates", https://hackerapproved.com/p/qwen-fixed-chat-templates/ (10 recommend, 0 mixed, 0 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026).

Counts updated 2 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.