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by mschuster91 1036 days ago
> Access tokens can be refreshed without user interaction, so it's not the same issue there.

Not on mobile, when the app is not in foreground or gets killed by "energy saver" mechanisms - Samsung is fucking annoying in that regard, even on 4GB RAM and more it keeps closing Chrome with 10 tabs after a minute or two and it completely loses state, as do many games - even taking a call in foreground can be enough.
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NavinF 1036 days ago
4GB is not a lot on Android so 10 tabs sounds about right. You need a lot of wiggle room for garbage collection to be efficient and you can't swap to flash without burning write cycles and power on small devices.

That aside, I don't see any technical reason why you can't renew a token that expired 1 week ago. Renewal just makes sure nothing changed (Eg user hasn't been deleted) while you were gone. It doesn't have to do any user-facing auth

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