June 2026: The Update That Bothers You Less
Real notification controls, an account page that makes sense, and a status page that admits when something broke.
This update is mostly about getting out of your way. We handed you real control over what DiamondOps pings you about, capped the firehose, and started telling you plainly when our data goes sideways instead of pretending it didn't.
Here's what shipped across the web app and the iOS apps this month.
You actually control the alerts now
This is the headline. There's a full Notification Settings screen on the web, and you pick exactly what reaches you: price spikes, watchlist thresholds, flip alerts, new card releases, and the Buried Gem digest. Each one is its own switch.
The honest part: our opt-outs used to be decorative. I found that out the annoying way — alerts firing every couple of minutes on a busy market day, I flipped the toggle off to make it stop, and they just kept coming. Our own off-switch did nothing. Embarrassing thing to find in your own app. It's fixed now: off means off, on every device, enforced at the source.
A couple of things worth knowing. The in-app notification bell is always on; the switches govern the interruptive stuff — desktop and push — not the bell quietly collecting your alerts in one place. And the everyday signals (price spikes, new releases) are free, while the sharper ones — flip alerts, watchlist thresholds, the Buried Gem digest — are Pro. We also put a daily cap on push notifications, so a wild Lightning swing can't blast you with thirty pings before lunch.
Every alert is its own switch now — and off finally means off.
The status page keeps receipts
When the market data is running late, you now get a clear heads-up across the app instead of a stale price wearing a fresh-price costume. We'd rather show you a number that's an hour old and correct than one that's current and wrong, and now we say which one you're looking at.
Every piece of the platform, with how fresh its data is — so you can tell whether it's us or the game.
The Platform Status page also keeps a history. When something breaks — like the day San Diego Studio's own API got slow and we paused the market refresh to avoid writing bad prices — we post a plain-English write-up of what happened and what we did about it. Public, dated, no status-page theater. If you ever wondered whether it was us or the game, now you can just check.
A real one from June 16: what lagged, what didn't, and when it caught up.
Upcoming Drops, on your dashboard
The Show's official content and program schedule now lives right on the dashboard, synced daily, so you can see what's coming before it lands. That matters because the market moves before a drop, not after — knowing a program is inbound is the difference between buying ahead of the room and chasing it.
We also started pulling in daily The Show news as quick in-app breakdowns: the headlines that actually move prices, not a feed you have to scroll.
What's dropping tomorrow, on the dashboard — so you're positioned before the room.
Small stuff that adds up
The account page got reorganized into real sections — Profile, Subscription, Notifications, Connections — instead of one endless scroll, with the destructive stuff (delete your account) walled off in its own corner. Sign out now sits up top where you'd actually look for it. And the sidebar finally remembers whether you left it open or collapsed. Tiny, but you'll feel it every visit.
That's June. Fewer pushes, more control, and a status page that tells the truth. More next month.
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One or two real posts a month. Methodology, market research, occasional strong opinions about a card.
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