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Board Sync Failure on flakey internet connection

Describe the Bug

I have a fairly flakey wifi connection (it is fast but occasionally drops connection). While building a map if my connection is lost Talespire often seems to get stuck into a disconnected state. Even though the connection interruption was very brief and other services resume normally (e.g. streaming audio will disconnect for a moment then return) Talespire will remain stuck in a 'syncing' loop.

Sometimes I can keep editing (for hours) and the sync just never completes. Other times I'm left in a limbo like state where I cannot see any tiles or do anything.

To Reproduce

  • Open a medium/large board
  • Edit the board
  • Disconnect/disable your internet connection
  • Re-Enable your connection

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Additional Context

Currently I am forced to:
1) Manually copy the section of the board I have been working on into the clipboard
2) Restart Talespire
3) Reload the board, delete the copied section (that is now out of date)
4) Paste the copied section

The recovery process is really cumbersome. Would it be feasible to keep local copies of a board when the client disconnects and ask the user on resume if they want to keep the local copy when the client boots up again (i.e. a new board is added to your list of boards: 'foo_backup_datestamp')?

This problem is exacerbated by the fact that Talespire doesn't really warn you when it has been failing to save for a long time (there is an exclamation point in the top left corner but it's small and out of the way and AFAICT there is no tooltip and no periodic dialogue warning you that 'you haven't saved in 60 minutes'. etc. The first time this happened I kept editing for several hours and lost all the changes : (

Anyway I hope the game keeps progressing; really enjoying it other than this bug right now.

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