🛠️ Account and Payment Reliability

Improvements

• Android releases are now more consistent across different installation and update methods.
• Android updates are now more reliable and go through stronger release checks.
• Custom name fonts now load only when they are actually needed, reducing unnecessary connections and page loading work.
• Captcha and payment systems now handle temporary failures more reliably instead of getting stuck.

Fixes

• Improved Alliance invite and join-request pages so they return more consistent results and no longer show invalid pagination.
• Fixed Android app links sometimes receiving the same URL parameter twice when opening the app.
• Fixed the back and close buttons not working correctly during FastSpring checkout.
• Google Play purchases are now more reliable and recover better from temporary problems.
• Stripe checkout now shows a successful purchase only after the purchased Droplets or Prism have actually been added to the account.
• Improved account security for OAuth sign-ins by no longer relying on unverified email addresses when matching existing accounts.
• Phone numbers used for verification are no longer stored in the browser.
• Purchases and profile picture uploads now correctly show an error when the server is temporarily unavailable instead of appearing successful.
• Pixel information and painting now recover more reliably during server restarts.
• The mobile app install button now disappears after the browser's installation prompt has already been used.
• Mobile sign-in codes can now only be used once and are no longer exposed in request URLs.
• Failed painting attempts now show an error instead of making it look like the pixel was successfully placed.