Software Delay Timeouts
Discussions center on the durations of timeouts and artificial delays in software, debating long waits like 5 minutes versus shorter alternatives like seconds for better performance and user experience.
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It's a 5 minute delay. But it can be changed easily.
They should just have set the timeout to half a second and no one would have noticed
Waiting 5 minutes for a bunch of things adds up.
Replacing the currently indefinite delay with a 3-4 second one sounds like an improvement.
Because users don't wait 90 seconds for something stupid like this?
Timeouts are better than grounding.
I imagine a 3 minute delay on everything would work.
Doesn't work because of the delay.
Wait - for "fail fast" reasons, we're going to do something important every few thousand years, instead of about once a year?!
Now they have a 5 second delay? :-)