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Great comments everyone! Really nice hearing from all these devs experienced with writing crash free apps that never crash with inscrutable tracebacks which after days of investigation turn out to be caused by a DisplayLink driver.

It’s refreshing to see your users never angrily contact you to fix crashes you can’t fix and that your only answer is not “sorry you will have to just relaunch the app”

Your unfounded assumptions are a delight, indeed I must be doing something wrong and maybe just didn’t put in the work into fixing these errors, and after 6 years of developing the same app and looking at the Sentry dashboard every day and talking to users through email/Discord/Twitter/Reddit/forums and looking at their video recordings and deciphering their explanations and sending them betas and custom utilities that definitely reproduce how the crash is not a user error… sorry, what was I saying?

God damn it man, it’s this thing every day here.

I just wanted to share a readily made solution for people that are in desperate need of it and have exhausted all other possibilities. I’m not trying to make everyone create crash loops and bringing systems to a grind.



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