A Brief Connection Drop No Longer Interrupts You

Environment: Dev & QA
A short network interruption could surface as a dead end — the app's background check for a new version failed several times in a row, and fetching a practice transcript failed with nothing you could do about it.
Both now ride out a brief outage. The version check retries quietly, never shows you the failure, and never reloads the app because of one. The transcript fetch retries once when the problem looks temporary, and if it still cannot get through you get a clear message and a working retry.