What changes
This release brings a full Bounty Hour rework, fixes Gallery and iPhone keyboard performance issues, and adds several quality improvements.
New
- Variable Bounty Hour time: the start time now changes every day within the 18:30-22:00 window for your region. The event is less predictable, more engaging, and more inclusive than a fixed time, as suggested by feedback.
- New Bounty Hour clues: clues now arrive in this order: current word tier at 10 minutes, word length at 30 minutes, first letter at 50 minutes. The tier clue updates live if the word evolves during the Bounty Hour.
- Weekly streak protection: if Bounty Hour cannot run because there are not enough candidate words in the pool, all DAILY GOLD tickets are automatically evolved to PLATINUM to preserve the chance of earning the weekly DIAMOND. This is rare and should basically never happen.
- Unlock word on LATENT tickets: for word-bound MASTERY LATENT tickets, the owner can now see which word unlocked the achievement.
Fixed
- Duplicate DISCOVERY notifications: certification could send up to 4 identical notifications. It now sends exactly 1.
- Bounty Hour with too-short word: secret-word selection now excludes words shorter than 5 letters and does not repeat the last 20 secret words.
- Missing source maps: removed 30 console 404 errors for
.js.map files.
- Analytics user identification: anonymous sessions before login are now correctly connected to the authenticated user.
- Sensitive debug analytics data: one personal debug value was removed from analytics test events.
Improved
- Smoother Gallery: ticket cards are loaded in the browser only when close to the visible screen area. Ticket visual quality stays the same. Please report how the Gallery feels when many high-effect tickets are present.
- Responsive iPhone keyboard: removed a verification component that caused a 100-300ms keyboard freeze after each submit on Safari iOS.
- Ticket detail size: ticket detail pages now give the ticket more room on large screens.
Notes
- Versions 0.2.6 and 0.2.7 were internal releases for intermediate tests and fixes. This version includes the final improvements.
- The renewed Bounty Hour is active from the next scheduled Bounty Hour. The changes affect secret-word selection, clue order and timing, and variable start time. If you notice anomalies, please report them through the feedback widget.