What to write down before you contact support, in three short sections.
What to write down before you contact support, the right channel, the safe-contact habit, and the small list of issues the support team can solve fastest.
What to write down, in the order the support team will ask.
The first note: the issue. The second: the time. The third: the device. The fourth: the contest ID.
The first note is the issue. Write the issue in one sentence; do not paraphrase. The support team will ask for the issue in the first reply, and the one-sentence note is the fastest answer. The second note is the time: the time the issue happened, in your local timezone. The support team will ask for the time in the first reply, and the timezone matters for the server log.
The third note is the device. The device model, the OS version, and the app version. The support team will ask for the device in the first reply, and the device model is the cheapest way to know whether the issue is on a specific OS version. The fourth note is the contest ID, if the issue is about a contest.
The right channel, the safe-contact habit, and the small list of habits that protect the session.
The right channel is the in-app chat. The safe-contact habit is to start the chat from inside the app, not from a search result.
The right channel is the in-app chat. The in-app chat is the only channel that is authenticated; the email and the phone number are fallbacks. The safe-contact habit is to start the chat from inside the app, not from a search result. The in-app chat opens the support team's session log; the search result does not.
Do not share the account password with the support team. The support team does not need the password to read the account; the support team needs the account ID, which is on the profile page. The password is yours; the account ID is the support team's.