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by mgkimsal 1315 days ago
> This is not really a problem because if you have not used the app for one week, you can just replicate the data from the server again.

You can't if you haven't been able to push up the data for a week.

But in that case, you'd just have to remember to 'use it' ever day or so.

Had a use case a few years back for data collection app in remote African villages. There were definitely situations where a week without decent data access were possible, and 'offline' became a requirement.

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Cool, but we are talking about a PM tool here, so what really matters is people having no/slow internet for a short period of time.
"I lost data because I went on a vacation" is not an acceptable failure mode. Users understand "no data is saved" or "all data is saved," complex rules will lead to pain.