What's New in Visuals
When something goes wrong in Visuals, it now tells you what happened.
That's the whole story of this release. Failed generations say why they failed. Error screens are written in plain English instead of a code. And in a lot of cases, Visuals sorts the problem out on its own before it ever reaches you.
When a generation fails, you find out why
Before, a generation that didn't work gave you a shrug. "Something went wrong." That was it. You had no idea whether to change your prompt, swap your image, or just hit go again.
Now the message tells you the real reason. If the model turned down your prompt, it says so. If the file you gave it was the wrong shape for that model, it says that instead. You can read it and know what to change.
Visuals also tries harder before it gives up. Where a job can run somewhere else, it now goes to a different provider and gets another shot, so a failure in one place doesn't cost you the generation.
Error screens you can actually read
If something did break, you used to get a screen with a short, cryptic message on it. "Error: ee" was a real one. It told you nothing, and it didn't look like Visuals.
Every error screen in the app now looks like the rest of Visuals and is written in plain language. It tells you what happened in words you can read.
One particular broken page is gone for good. When we ship an update while you have Visuals open, your browser can be left running the old version, and parts of the app quietly stop working. Visuals now notices when that has happened and reloads itself, so you keep going instead of sitting on a page that's given up.
The heart works the same everywhere
Favorites used to depend on what you were looking at. On some kinds of assets the heart worked. On others it did nothing. Now it works the same way on all of them.
Likes in Explore got the same treatment. Every video there can be liked now, the same as everything else.
Also fixed
Sign-up and email verification crashes. A few of these could drop you on a broken page while you were making your account or confirming your email. They're fixed, including one that only happened in Safari.
Notifications no longer go quiet. If your notifications didn't come back, you'd see nothing at all, with no sign that anything had failed. Now they try again, and if they still can't load, you're told instead of being shown an empty list.