The most satisfying weeks are those in which I can actually release something visible. And even if it’s just in our preview game world Paine for now and hidden behind a feature flag for all others (because I am not quite ready to throw all players into cold water yet), I was very happy last Thursday to finally be able to ship the key component of the technical migration to the “gen-3 UI”.
As expected, I’ve received numerous bug reports already which I’ll address asap in week 27. But to my surprise, there was no huge outcry in protest of the new design. Chances are though, that I’d receive quite some backlash if I just rolled this out everywhere at the moment ![]()
Most issues people are experiencing so far either have to do with the mobile view (which is notoriously difficult to get to work for AS) or the fact that the new gen-3 UI is rendered client-side after the actual gen-1 or gen-2 page has loaded. The result is a “flicker” while the client-side app loads user and airline context or other data like localisation strings asynchronously. I’ll do my best to reduce these flickers as much as possible, but they’ll likely remain an inherent issue of the new architecture on legacy pages. On any new page built going forward, it’s going to be a non-issue as everything is going to happen client-side.
Anyway, of you want to track known issues and any updates to the preview in detail, head over to the respective thread I created for your reference. And please don’t hesitate to get in touch if anything doesn’t work for you.