SnailHunter ADMIN
2026.08.06
Fixed - it holds on black until the shop is ready.
Your diagnosis was right. The background image was the only thing being waited for; everything else - the item grid, the preview panel, the tabs, the ID rows, the currency - was drawn regardless. So while the background was still loading you got a half-transparent screen with the shop assembling itself piece by piece on top of it.
It is now a solid black cover with the loading text, and nothing else draws until the backdrop is actually there, which is also how the real client behaves - it never shows you a partial shop.
One safeguard worth mentioning: the wait resolves on 'loaded OR definitely unavailable', not just 'loaded'. If a deploy ever shipped without that image the shop would still open rather than sitting on a black screen forever.
On the editor preview now; reaches the public build with the next publish.
Your diagnosis was right. The background image was the only thing being waited for; everything else - the item grid, the preview panel, the tabs, the ID rows, the currency - was drawn regardless. So while the background was still loading you got a half-transparent screen with the shop assembling itself piece by piece on top of it.
It is now a solid black cover with the loading text, and nothing else draws until the backdrop is actually there, which is also how the real client behaves - it never shows you a partial shop.
One safeguard worth mentioning: the wait resolves on 'loaded OR definitely unavailable', not just 'loaded'. If a deploy ever shipped without that image the shop would still open rather than sitting on a black screen forever.
On the editor preview now; reaches the public build with the next publish.