Turn off background updates after failures and reduce logging #1379
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Thunderstore's Sentry logs are full of reports where the background update fails time and time again. While this is a sort of inverse survivor bias, it's probably safe to assume that once the background updates start failing, they're unlikely to start working again. So turn off the background updates instead. When the background updates are turned off, an error modal is shown. I couldn't think of a better way to notify the user about the mod manager suddenly going "offline". There's a change that making the background update failure visible to users this way causes a flood of support requests. If the failure was due to network error or the request timing out, the errors are omitted. Currently these two are number 3 and 4 on Thunderstore's Sentry, and they're just noise since we can't do ~anything about them. Other errors, e.g. related to caching the package list to IndexedDB are still logged in the hopes that we can figure out how to solve at least some of them.
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Thunderstore's Sentry logs are full of reports where the background update fails time and time again. While this is a sort of inverse survivor bias, it's probably safe to assume that once the background updates start failing, they're unlikely to start working again. So turn off the background updates instead.
When the background updates are turned off, an error modal is shown. I couldn't think of a better way to notify the user about the mod manager suddenly going "offline". There's a change that making the background update failure visible to users this way causes a flood of support requests.
If the failure was due to network error or the request timing out, the errors are omitted. Currently these two are number 3 and 4 on Thunderstore's Sentry, and they're just noise since we can't do ~anything about them. Other errors, e.g. related to caching the package list to IndexedDB are still logged in the hopes that we can figure out how to solve at least some of them.