Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2020 22:02:48 -0400
From: Philip White <philip@pswhite.org>
To: ~akarle/public-inbox@lists.sr.ht
Subject: Thanks and feedback for euchre-live
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Hi,

I just used http://euchre.live this evening. Thanks for making it!
Overall I thought it worked pretty well. The one bug we ran into very
frequently while playing was that the page would stop updating and could
not perform any actions. I opened dev-tools in my browser while playing
so that I could see if it would say anything when I got disconnected.
Sure enough, the issue appears to be that the WebSocket got closed
somehow, and that any messages sent over the wire could not be sent.

To fix this, I believe you can add a callback whenever the websocket
gets closed; in the callback, you can just try to reconnect. To make the
user-experience better as well, you could show an indication on the page
that the client is currently disconnected.

Would you be interested in a patch to fix this? It might be better if
you fixed it yourself, since you already have the dev environment setup
and know how the project is structured (I've never used Perl before).
Let me know which you would rather.

As a counterpoint to this bug, we were still able to finish both of our
games, since we could just refresh the page and join the game again.

Thanks,
Philip