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Totally agree with finding the source of the bug (there are some that I've spent weeks tracking down, there are millions of people that have my fixed code on their devices).

If you've going to catch an error with a noop, there better be a comment explaining why you're not doing anything. It's not often, but sometimes, failing gracefully is just swallowing the error and moving on.

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At minimum, the error should be logged somewhere, and not just vanished. At least you get to know how frequently it occurs if/when that becomes meaningful to you.

Exactly this. Log it, maybe at some really verbose log level, but please let me know it is hitting this point and a little bit of information of what the exception was.

Also, only do it for exceptions you think might actually hit there and you're OK with quietly squashing. Otherwise, please let something else try and handle it.

In an app, if you have a string of network requests to your own services, there's no particular point in logging multiple (or any) 'no internet connection' errors. They won't make it to you, and having those doesn't provide much value. That's an end user problem.

I have plenty of monitors to ensure my services are available (four-nines uptime for almost a decade). Internet unavailable errors are useless to log.

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