Sign up first, questions after

Portail v2.6.8 shipped on 2026-10-09 as a patch release focused on sign up first, questions after. Getting into Portail used to mean answering seven or more questions before you could even make an account, and if your phone reloaded the page while you fetched the email code, you landed back on an empty form. Now you give your name and age, make the account, and only then answer the short questionnaire that tunes the chat to you. The email code screen survives a reload, the sign-up screen tells you up front when Google sign-in can't work inside an app's built-in browser, and the pricing table opens on monthly prices so the Pro trial is in plain sight. We also fixed the annual discount label: it said about 17%, the real saving is about 4%. The work is recorded here because small releases are still product history. They change how people sign in, read responses, pay for access, share conversations, open files, or trust the system when something goes wrong.

The main changes were direct: account creation now comes right after your name and age (and the short ai guide, for teens). the questions about your role, goals and favorite ais come after the account exists, so leaving halfway no longer loses everything, if the page reloads while you're getting the 6-digit code from your inbox (iphones love doing this), you come back to the code screen with your email still filled in instead of starting over, opened portail from instagram, telegram or another app's built-in browser? google blocks its sign-in there, so the sign-up screen now says so and points you to email or to safari or chrome, the pricing section opens on monthly billing, which is where pro's 7-day free trial lives, the annual billing badge now says the true number: about 4% off, not 17%, the reviews carousel is gone from the home page. when quotes come back, they'll be from real users who agreed to be quoted, and the ai street smarts game no longer sits next to the sign-up button for adults. teens who just played it can still open it there. That list is intentionally plain. It names what changed without turning the release into theatre. When a release fixes a build, a redirect, a storage path, or a UI edge case, the value is often that users stop noticing the problem. The archive keeps that invisible work visible enough for future debugging and for anyone checking whether Portail has cared about the details over time.

This version also fits into the wider Portail contract. One account, one chat history, and one model picker only work if the smaller pieces keep their promises. Authentication has to fail clearly. Billing has to count honestly. Uploads have to arrive in a form models can read. Admin tools have to show the operator what happened instead of hiding it behind a blank screen. v2.6.8 moved that contract forward in its own narrow lane.

The screenshots attached to this entry show the public release record as it now appears on portail.cc. For older releases, this archive was rebuilt from the git history, package version changes, release modal text, and commit subjects. That means the page is honest about its source: it documents the shipped change and preserves the record going forward, even when the exact old production screen cannot be recreated from a single saved image.

The practical result is simple. Someone landing on this page can see the version number, date, release tier, headline, highlights, and a real rendered screenshot of the archive page. Search engines can index the post through the canonical URL, sitemap entry, and structured data. Future releases now have a standard to meet before deploy, so the history should get cleaner from here instead of fuzzier.