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/TwitchChat.cs

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ using Websocket.Client;
 
 namespace KfChatDotNetKickBot.Services;
 
-public class TwitchChat
+public class TwitchChat : IDisposable
 {
     private readonly Logger _logger = LogManager.GetCurrentClassLogger();
     private WebsocketClient _wsClient;
@@ -54,7 +54,8 @@ public class TwitchChat
         
         var client = new WebsocketClient(_wsUri, factory)
         {
-            ReconnectTimeout = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(ReconnectTimeout)
+            ReconnectTimeout = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(ReconnectTimeout),
+            IsReconnectionEnabled = false
         };
         
         client.ReconnectionHappened.Subscribe(WsReconnection);
@@ -79,11 +80,6 @@ public class TwitchChat
         _logger.Error($"Close Status => {disconnectionInfo.CloseStatus}; Close Status Description => {disconnectionInfo.CloseStatusDescription}");
         _logger.Error(disconnectionInfo.Exception);
         OnWsDisconnection?.Invoke(this, disconnectionInfo);
-        if (disconnectionInfo.Type == DisconnectionType.ByServer)
-        {
-            _logger.Info("Forcing reconnection as the type was ByServer");
-            _wsClient.Reconnect().Wait(_cancellationToken);
-        }
     }
     
     private void WsReconnection(ReconnectionInfo reconnectionInfo)
@@ -150,7 +146,7 @@ public class TwitchChat
             switch (command)
             {
                 case "PING":
-                    _logger.Debug("Received PING, sending PONG");
+                    _logger.Info("Received PING, sending PONG");
                     _wsClient.Send("PONG");
                     return;
                 case "JOIN":
@@ -175,4 +171,10 @@ public class TwitchChat
             _logger.Error("--- End of IRC Message ---");
         }
     }
+
+    public void Dispose()
+    {
+        _wsClient.Dispose();
+        GC.SuppressFinalize(this);
+    }
 }