"I guess you could always cap off the exponential interval increases at some max interval, making it basically a repeating timer."
No you MUST have a max interval cap. Exponentials and all, you'll soon be waiting days or months for a retry.
No you MUST have a max interval cap. Exponentials and all, you'll soon be waiting days or months for a retry.
Please cap your numbers for both user experience reasons, and safety reasons.
Yes, have dealt with this before. Nothing like doing a fault analysis and telling someone that it'll fix itself in a few months.
A capped fibonacci sequence is a very common back off timer.