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Please extend the request timeout period

A topic by gogosuperteam created Dec 10, 2020 Views: 583 Replies: 3
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As discussed here, the two second timeout period is unreasonably short for a satellite connection. I would have bumped that thread if I could.
I'll add this much: This request isn't for me, I have a connection fast enough for uploading builds. But butler reliably never works for me over a satellite connection. I don't want to come across as unappreciative, because itch as a whole has been such a force for good, but the thread I linked had a developer concede to having to drive an hour to a place with a faster connection to upload builds, and it was never followed up on. I don't think that's cool. This arbitrarily low number is exclusionary to devs in more remote or less developed areas.

Admin (1 edit) (+1)

Hello,

Sorry for not replying to this post sooner! If you are still having the issue, we have a beta version of butler available that you can try, you can download it from here: https://itchio.itch.io/butler

Choose the bleeding edge option for your respective platform (except linux 32, as we aren’t pushing new builds going forward). The default timeout should now be 15 seconds. We’ll probably also add a flag to customize the timeout as well.

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[this is the image title]Thank you, thank you! It does fix the issue. Here's proof, using butler immediately before and after installing your new version.

I have no idea why this isnt showing up

edit: please image, be visible

Admin

Glad to know it works, I’ve also added a command line flag to customize the timeout. We’ll ship the next release soon.