Allow silencing 'Thread not found' errors

[MitchPetersen]

Issue

A thread has been sitting in F95Checker awaiting an eventual (hopefully) update from the dev. Consider it imported properly, installed, played, stagnant in the UI.

Yesterday at some point, either a change in the thread, or a change in the API was made, and it seems that the API has misplaced this entry.

The thread is not archived, and still exists.

Reproducible steps

• Add thread 184252 to F95 Checker
• Try and pull thread details

API output

/184252?ts=1735450781

{"INDEX_ERROR":"THREAD_MISSING"}

/fast?ids=184252

{"184252":1735450781}

Suggested Remedy

It would be nice to avoid having a popup stating that the thread has been removed every subsequent time thread updates are requested.

In cases like this, I don't want to do anything with this game entry, and I'd prefer to just wait for it to re-appear in the API endpoint.

Potentially add a new status for games, Unknown or Removed? or Missing? And do a status change for the game instead, possibly with a tool tip explanation of the meaning, and suggested remedies that are explained in the current pop-up.

[Willy-JL]

This was discussed in detail on the f95zone thread. It will be mitigated by letting the 12-hour version check and the 5-minute latest updates check detect if a thread cached as non existent actually exists, aswell as allowing the end user to ignore this error for a certain amount of time or indefinitely.

[Willy-JL]

after looking into the issue, it turns out it was likely due to a ddos-guard 403 response being wrongly interpreted as the thread missing, this is fixed by #215 .

Potentially add a new status for games, Unknown or Removed? or Missing? And do a status change for the game instead, possibly with a tool tip explanation of the meaning, and suggested remedies that are explained in the current pop-up.

for games that have actually been removed, i think a popup is still necessary so the user actually notices, a simple icon would go unnoticed. however i agree that there should be a way to silence the error once it has been acknowledged the first time, such as

allowing the end user to ignore this error for a certain amount of time or indefinitely.