Goldfish Focus

Big one this time. We spent a few weeks chasing every way a video could vanish on you and decided that none of them were acceptable. Recording is now durable in ways it really should have been all along. Your phone can get hot, you can get a phone call partway through, you can pause, you can briefly switch apps to check Slack, and the recording survives all of it. The fix that did the most work here is a small one. We were aggressively cleaning up the original raw recording the moment the timelapse rendered, which felt clever until anything downstream hiccuped and you were left with nothing. So we stopped doing the clever thing. The original now sits on disk until your post is safely on our server, and only then does it go away. Posting is also more honest about what is happening. Before, the composer would dismiss with a friendly checkmark whether or not the post had actually reached the server. Sometimes it had not. Now the post is queued locally before any network call so even if your internet dies the second after you tap Post, the next time you open the app the post finishes uploading on its own. We rebuilt the version check that lives in front of the app so older builds that still have the bugs above cannot keep recording. If you are reading this, congratulations, you are on the build that does not eat your videos. Music in the feed no longer plays the moment you open the app, which we are told was a big personal injury for headphone users on quiet trains. Thank you for your patience.