The Final Solution to the Websocket question? I've gone through like 10 different iterations to try and get ByServer reconnections to work correctly. Now just disabled reconnection altogether and I'm manually disposing and recreating the instance whenever it dies using a watchdog task. So far working great after 12 hours!

KfChatDotNetKickBot/Services/Twitch.cs

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ using Websocket.Client;
 
 namespace KfChatDotNetKickBot.Services;
 
-public class Twitch
+public class Twitch : IDisposable
 {
     private Logger _logger = LogManager.GetCurrentClassLogger();
     private WebsocketClient _wsClient;
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ public class Twitch
     public delegate void OnStreamStateUpdateEventHandler(object sender, int channelId, bool isLive);
     public event OnStreamStateUpdateEventHandler OnStreamStateUpdated;
     private CancellationToken _cancellationToken = CancellationToken.None;
+    private Task? _pingTask = null;
+    private CancellationTokenSource _pingCts = new();
 
     public Twitch(List<int> channels,  string? proxy = null, CancellationToken? cancellationToken = null)
     {
@@ -45,7 +47,8 @@ public class Twitch
         
         var client = new WebsocketClient(_wsUri, factory)
         {
-            ReconnectTimeout = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(_reconnectTimeout)
+            ReconnectTimeout = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(_reconnectTimeout),
+            IsReconnectionEnabled = false
         };
         
         client.ReconnectionHappened.Subscribe(WsReconnection);
@@ -58,7 +61,7 @@ public class Twitch
         await client.Start();
         _logger.Debug("Websocket client started!");
         SendPing();
-        _ = PeriodicPing();
+        _pingTask = PeriodicPing();
     }
     
     public bool IsConnected()
@@ -68,14 +71,14 @@ public class Twitch
 
     private void SendPing()
     {
-        _logger.Debug("Sending ping to Twitch");
+        _logger.Info("Sending ping to Twitch");
         _wsClient.Send("{\"type\":\"PING\"}");
     }
 
     private async Task PeriodicPing()
     {
         using var timer = new PeriodicTimer(TimeSpan.FromMinutes(1));
-        while (await timer.WaitForNextTickAsync(_cancellationToken))
+        while (await timer.WaitForNextTickAsync(_pingCts.Token))
         {
             SendPing();
         }
@@ -86,11 +89,6 @@ public class Twitch
         _logger.Error($"Client disconnected from the chat (or never successfully connected). Type is {disconnectionInfo.Type}");
         _logger.Error($"Close Status => {disconnectionInfo.CloseStatus}; Close Status Description => {disconnectionInfo.CloseStatusDescription}");
         _logger.Error(disconnectionInfo.Exception);
-        if (disconnectionInfo.Type == DisconnectionType.ByServer)
-        {
-            _logger.Info("Forcing reconnection as the type was ByServer");
-            _wsClient.Reconnect().Wait(_cancellationToken);
-        }
     }
     
     private void WsReconnection(ReconnectionInfo reconnectionInfo)
@@ -205,4 +203,13 @@ public class Twitch
     }
 
     public class TwitchUserNotFoundException : Exception;
+
+    public void Dispose()
+    {
+        _wsClient.Dispose();
+        _pingCts.Cancel();
+        _pingCts.Dispose();
+        _pingTask?.Dispose();
+        GC.SuppressFinalize(this);
+    }
 }