erming/shout

Display when connection is lost and having retry button

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#395 opened on Apr 7, 2015

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Hi!

First, thanks for this wonderful project!

Two things:

  1. got disconnected from the IRC server, but I didn't notice it (a friend told me that this stuff was displayed: MyNick (~MyNick@myserver.example.com) has quit (Ping timeout: 265 seconds). I didn't saw anything (neither any error) in the interface, just talking alone for a moment. Ideally, having a icon showing the current connection status will be great!
  2. after display this, a cool thing would be a click on a "Retry" button, to restart the connection without losing all the history

Checked the logs, nothing displayed. ~7min after the timeout, got Error: read ECONNRESET in the output.

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Investigate the current connection handling in the codebase, add a connection status indicator to the UI, and implement a retry mechanism that reconnects without clearing history.
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