Budling Got Faster: Performance & Reliability (July 2026)

Following up on our last update, this one's mostly under the hood: pages load faster, a handful of annoying bugs are gone, and 4 in a Row got some polish.

TL;DR:

Dashboard, login, grammar, and landing pages load faster, with layout-shift fixes so content stops jumping around mid-load.
Live sessions no longer get stuck on "waiting for student," and grammar-topic bookmarking no longer silently un-bookmarks on a fast click.
4 in a Row got clearer cell marks, a fixed scoreboard, and a proper game-over screen with a rematch option.

Faster across the board

Dashboard, login, grammar pages, and the landing page all got meaningfully quicker — less time staring at a half-loaded screen, especially on mobile. We also chased down several layout-shift bugs where content would visibly jump around while a page finished loading, most noticeably the pet avatar on public profile pages. What you see on first paint now stays put.

Bugs squashed

Live sessions occasionally got stuck showing "waiting for student" even after both people joined — fixed, so live study sessions start reliably now.
Bookmarking a grammar topic right after opening the page could silently un-bookmark it if you clicked too fast. Fixed.
Browser tab titles no longer show "Budling" twice.
A handful of security hardening fixes shipped across public pages.

4 in a Row polish

The live word game we introduced last update got a round of polish: clearer cell marks, a fixed scoreboard layout, and a proper game-over screen with your final score and a rematch option.

Thanks for studying with us — as always, more is on the way.