Fixes and reliability (late August 2026)

Five things that were failing quietly. The biggest one switched off live messaging an hour after you logged in, and never mentioned it.

For everyone

• Realtime messaging: An hour after logging in, the connection carrying live messages and notifications started failing and never recovered for the rest of that page's life, with nothing on screen to say so. It was failing on 87% of requests, 234,174 of them against 33,590 that worked, over 7 days. Sessions now renew that connection instead of giving up on it.

For job seekers

• AI messages: You'd watch cord start writing a message, then stop, leaving an empty box and no error. The message had been written every time. Across 6,413 generations in 30 days, not one came back empty, and the app was throwing it away. It only happened from your second message onwards, which is why it was so hard to pin down.

• Direct and external roles: A role could sit in the direct tab badged "Message directly" with a named contact, then open with an "Apply externally" button and no way to message anyone. The role's own setting now decides, whatever the company record says, in all seven places that classify one: the tabs, the counts, the ranking, search cards, your saved and applied positions, the company name in search, and the position page.

For companies

• Message requests that wouldn't open: A request from someone with no location on their profile crashed the page, so it sat there unread and couldn't be accepted or turned down. 21 active profiles were on that empty location record, along with roughly 9,240 passive ones.

• Feeds with a deleted position: Deleting a position left your feeds and their AI summaries still pointing at it, and the feed then showed "We couldn't load this" on every single load. A deleted position now drops out of the summary dropdown, and deleting one clears the summaries and feed references behind it.