From 8a48862adc2958fb7f057783919b00580d26bb6c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Muehlhaeuser <muesli@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2019 09:26:16 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Use a slightly more aggressive backoff approach

Doubling the backoff every iteration turned out to be a bit
too relaxed for the common situations where you run into API
throttling. This change gives the API enough room to breathe,
but re-tries requests just a little more often.
---
 mastodon.go | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mastodon.go b/mastodon.go
index d0a94d4..d9c7883 100644
--- a/mastodon.go
+++ b/mastodon.go
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ func (c *Client) doAPI(ctx context.Context, method string, uri string, params in
 	}
 
 	var resp *http.Response
-	backoff := 1000 * time.Millisecond
+	backoff := time.Second
 	for {
 		resp, err = c.Do(req)
 		if err != nil {
@@ -137,13 +137,14 @@ func (c *Client) doAPI(ctx context.Context, method string, uri string, params in
 			if backoff > time.Hour {
 				break
 			}
-			backoff *= 2
 
 			select {
 			case <-time.After(backoff):
 			case <-ctx.Done():
 				return ctx.Err()
 			}
+
+			backoff = time.Duration(1.5 * float64(backoff))
 			continue
 		}
 		break