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Allow saving of long job descriptions

Writing a detailed job description and hitting save returned "an error occurred" with nothing to act on, so people rewrote the post, tried again, and gave up. One company tried 21 times in under a minute. Descriptions past roughly 8,000 characters of formatted text were quietly hitting a limit in how the change was published behind the scenes. Length is no longer a limit, and saving works the same whether you make the edit or cord's team does.

Intros that start when your role does

A position posted on a Friday afternoon had no intros until Tuesday morning. Fixing that turned up four more paths where a position quietly ended up with no intros at all, or with intros for a role that was no longer live. Improvements First intros on the day you post: Creating a position saved the role and then waited for the overnight run to fill it, so a role posted on a Friday afternoon had nothing to look at until Tuesday morning, around 66 hours later. Intros are now generated as soon as the position is created. The daily refresh covers every day of the week too, where Saturday and Sunday used to be skipped. Fixes Resuming a position brings its intros back: Resuming a paused position said it worked and then did nothing. The step that should have rebuilt the intros failed on a malformed query and the error was swallowed, so the role came back live with an empty Intros page. Resuming now restores them. Joining a hiring team gets you your own intros: Joining a position from the hiring team is the quickest way onto a role, and it was the one route that created no intros at all. Joining now generates them, and leaving clears them. No intros for positions you have closed: Intros stayed on positions that had been archived, paused or deleted, and messaging anyone on that list failed. Intros now show only for positions that are still live, and archiving or pausing a role clears them. External roles no longer generate intros: A position that sends people to another system to apply cannot be actioned on cord, so building an intro list for it spent a search and a ranking pass on people nobody could message. Those are skipped now. Core skills weighted in the order you ranked them: The ranking read your core skills back to front, so the skill you listed first, the one that matters most, carried the least weight and the last one carried the most. The order now counts the way you set it. The weighting no longer depends on how many skills you list either, so a position with more than five core skills ranks like the rest.

Fixes and reliability (early September 2026)

Three things that were going wrong quietly. The largest was a filter panel building itself before anyone had opened it, which is what locked up Discover on load for some users. For everyone Tabs that pick up the latest version: A tab left open kept running whichever version of cord it loaded with, until you navigated out of the app entirely. One customer sat on a four-day-old build and hit a bug that had been fixed and released days before. cord now checks for a new version every 15 minutes and whenever you come back to the tab. A tab you have not touched for an hour reloads itself quietly, an active one picks the new version up the next time you move between sections, and neither will reload over a position you are part-way through writing. For job seekers Newsletter and events emails you can turn off: Switching "Newsletter and events" off in your email settings said "Saved", then showed the toggle back on the moment you reloaded, and the emails kept arriving. Nothing had been written. It affected everyone verified before February 2024, because that setting only got a record at verification and older accounts never had one. Turning it off now creates the record on the spot, and the emails stop straight away rather than up to an hour later. For companies Company feeds that respond straight away: Opening a company feed under Discover looked ready, then locked up for a few seconds if you clicked a filter, scrolled, or switched job role, sometimes far enough for Chrome to offer "Page Unresponsive". The filter panel was building 2,065 checkboxes and around 10,500 page elements before you had opened it, 1,726 of them the 863-item skills list rendered twice, once for Core skills and once for All skills. Each panel now builds its options when you open it, so landing on a feed with the filters closed builds none of them instead of 2,062, and a saved feed still loads with its filters applied.

An Intros page that explains itself

A position that had never produced a single intro said "Ready for more intros?", and pressing Generate escalated that to "You've actioned all your intros! Great job." Both credited you with work you hadn't done, and neither told you the one thing worth knowing: whether anybody matches the role. Improvements Why there are no intros: An empty list now says nothing matches this position yet, and names the two things that usually change that, work type and salary range, with a link straight to the position. Of 908 positions running an intro agent, 854 have live intros, 53 have never produced one and exactly one had genuinely been worked through. The old copy was wrong for 53 of those 54 empty cases. Generating the first set: A position's first list only appeared once the overnight job reached it, and that job doesn't run at weekends. 72 live positions were sitting in that state. Generate intros is now the main button on the empty state and runs there and then. Fixes A page that loads: A single position pointing at a listing cord couldn't resolve took the whole Intros page down, on every reload, which left the account with nothing to work from. The page now renders and the problem position is logged instead. Long position names: A long position title spilled out of the selector and over the buttons beside it. The selector is capped and long titles truncate. The empty state was also rendering behind the top navigation with its illustration cut off, and now clears it.