Canva loses unsaved design work after only a brief app exit
A user working on a design left the Canva app for roughly 10 seconds and returned to find their work completely gone, contradicting the expectation that the app autosaves designs continuously. This represents a fundamental reliability failure in the core save/persistence flow.
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