- * Delay disconnecting peers if we receive messages from them even if it takes
- a while to receive a pong from them. Further, avoid sending too many gossip
- messages between pings to ensure we should always receive pongs in a timely
- manner. Together, these should significantly reduce instances of us failing
- to remain connected to a peer during initial gossip sync (#1137).
- * If a payment is sent, creating an outbound HTLC and sending it to our
+ * Previous versions would often disconnect peers during initial graph sync due
+ to ping timeouts while processing large numbers of gossip messages. We now
+ delay disconnecting peers if we receive messages from them even if it takes
+ a while to receive a pong from them. Further, we avoid sending too many
+ gossip messages between pings to ensure we should always receive pongs in a
+ timely manner (#1137).
+ * If a payment was sent, creating an outbound HTLC and sending it to our