Dimillian / Dimillian/IceCubesApp

Bug: nothing is shown when you are being rate limited

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Description

I recently switched mastodon instance, a process which requires a lot of background follow request negotiation. Internally, mastodon handles this as part of its normal queuing system, and so I was effectively being rate limited by Mastodon if I tried to do any UI stuff.

The main Mastodon UI pops up a small notification on the bottom left if I get a 429 status, including the time I should next attempt to do something, but Ice Cube just failed silently, which made it seem unresponsive, even when this had gone right, like signing in, or posting.

Ideally a small notification that the server is rate limiting you, and an indication of when to next attempt things would be good.

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Research direction

Start by locating the SwiftUI client's handling of Mastodon requests that receive HTTP 429 responses. Add a visible notification explaining that the server is rate limiting the user and showing when to try again; done means rate-limited actions no longer fail silently.

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Assessment

Tech stack
swift
Domain
mobile
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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