Devlog #8 – HydraCoaster
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V3 IS HERE!!!!
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THE PARTY ALWAYS ARRIVES
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Shipping a celebration and reliably delivering one turn out to be different problems. V2 marked your once-a-day celebration as used the moment the phone sent the command — so if the coaster rejected it or the reply got lost in the air, the day burned with nothing played, and it never retried. Now the day is only recorded when the coaster confirms the flourish actually ran; a bad or lost reply clears the pending marker and the next qualifying sip simply sends it again.
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Crossing 100% away from the coaster counts too. Log a glass at a restaurant, walk in the door, and the celebration fires the moment the coaster reconnects — no waiting for another sip. Amber pulses and ascending chirps, right on cue.
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NO MORE VANISHING SIPS
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The nastiest bug of the release: the app called itself “connected” the instant Bluetooth linked, before it had discovered where writes actually go. Everything that fires on connect — including the request for sips the coaster logged while your phone was away — hit a not-ready guard and was silently dropped. Offline sips just never backfilled. “Connected” now means ready-to-write, and a failed discovery disconnects for a clean retry. Every phone-free sip lands in your history on the next reconnect, every time.
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A RING WITH A PULSE
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The Today ring traded flat ink for an angular gradient with a liquid sheen, progress moves on a spring, and the first time it fills each day it does a quick scale pulse and pins a sparkly “goal reached” under the number — the on-phone echo of the coaster’s flourish. The streak flame bounces when your streak grows. The Awards tab got tinted icon circles on the stat tiles, earned badges on accent-washed gradient cards, badge symbols that bounce when unlocked, and a cascading entrance. Turn on Reduce Motion and all of it politely sits still.
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PUSH TO PARTY
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A Celebration Test button now lives in Settings, right under Buzz Test. Unlike Buzz Test, it respects your Sound and Light toggles, so it exercises the exact path a real goal celebration takes. A checkmark plus silence means your toggles are off — not that something’s broken.