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by andremedeiros 1112 days ago
All the comments in this thread are right. This specific scenario was about providing a consistent experience. All the work that this backend does could be done using iOS’ background updates, but:

1. Those aren’t consistently scheduled 2. They have an extremely tight deadline (and sometimes Reddit can be a bit slow)

Making it server side means we controlled that experience better.