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Connection Dialog Should Display Ping Issues (timeouts, packetloss)

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#3,158 opened on Jul 9, 2017

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Description

I had internet connection issues the last two days and noticed the server stats are only updated on successful pings. That means that if you had 1 successful 30ms ping with user count and then none for 10 minutes the displayed info is 10 minutes old and wrong (/does not indicate connection issues).

If we start with timeouts we do not display anything. Maybe some negative feedback would be useful then as well (use case: user has only 1 favourite server; does not see that we ping unsuccessfully, connect button is greyed out).

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Research direction
Investigate the current ping logic in the server browser and modify the UI to display ping failures such as timeouts and packet loss, providing negative feedback like grayed out connect button or status message.
Tech stack
cpp
Domain
frontendbackend
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Feature
DifficultyEstimated implementation difficulty for a new contributor, from 1 for very small changes to 5 for expert-level work.
3
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1-2 days
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Active
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Mostly clear
Prerequisites
C++Qt
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60