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cortesoft on Aug 29, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Don't trust default timeouts

Retrying doesn’t help on a slow connection... if the best case connections speed of your user is slower than your timeout, you can retry infinite times and it wont help.

Maybe increase the timeout on retry?

nitrogen on Aug 29, 2020 [–]

Exponential backoff but for the timeout instead of the interval, and/or a Wait Longer button, sound useful.

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