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Re:Users may be unable to connect or experiencing degraded p... by c17r on Monday October 05, 2020 @01:22PM (#24689798)
I worked on a project that used this, I hated it. The excuse I was given repeatedly was "it's unlikely to fail" which I kept responding with "but when it does, the user is already 3 pages away and we have no good way to tell them so they're SOL"
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Re:Users may be unable to connect or experiencing degraded p... by radicaldreamer on Monday October 05, 2020 @01:26PM (#24689844)
You could surface a notification when it fails...
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Re:Users may be unable to connect or experiencing degraded p... by KajMagnus on Monday October 05, 2020 @03:24PM (#24691083)
The user might have navigated 3 pages away to a different website ... Or exited a mobile app. (But well yes I suppose notifications are better than nothing)

I somewhat often send messages just before I have to run to catch the subway — and when I think the message got sent, I type `sudo poweroff`

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