Random loss of connection to Ethereum

[omnat]

Sometimes Ethereum doesn't connect, and didn't work after reloading. Did 'back' on Android phone, worked for a few seconds, then again got disconnected
Context: Opened peepeth within MM Dapp browser, when my peepeth account is selected.

[brunobar79]

@omnat Does the status bar show that you have a bad connection / no connection at all? (I'm not very familiar with the android icons)

[omnat]

I am connected to WiFi which has stable high-speed connection.

[omnat]

Spoke with Bevan from Peepeth, this seems to be an issue on Peepeth's side.

This could happen with any other dapps, especially in early stages. Is there a way to indicate this to users where the issue is happening? Could avoid people feeling uncertain and wondering that they are doing something wrong.. Not sure if possible technically though..

[brunobar79]

@omnat Just FYI: I already reported to him another bug that was preventing me from using peepeth at all when I first started the app. He fixed it right away which is great but that took a decent amount of time on my end to find the issue and we can't afford to help devs fix their dApps one by one.

Back to your question, there's almost nothing we can do to interfere with what's going on inside the dApp on our end. but what we could do is to publish a good article about how to make dApps mobile friendly, best practices, tools and snippets of code. That was my idea for the talk ETHDenver but I don't think it's happening, so I might end up writing a blog post about that. See #340

[omnat]

Totally agree! If we can't inform what's happening on dApp side, that talk or blogpost would be fantastic to help dApp builders create good UX on mobile. Looking forward! :)))