11 FEB 2026
David debugged: Investigated why phone OTP gave errors on first attempt during signup
David asked a production investigation into OTP failures after spotting them in his own signup attempt and in a report from another user.
After receiving a screenshot showing OTP errors:
see these images. theres a bug in phone number OTP. this was my first attempt so idk why im getting this error. deborah also got this error in the last few hrs when she tried signing up. go debug on production logs to see what is going on. further, why is the country flag hidden when i...
The investigation was commissioned to trace the specific failure on first attempt from production logs, covering the OTP dispatch path and the country flag display logic.