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by tcfhgj 966 days ago
I think it used push on play store and polling on f-droid
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joecool1029 966 days ago
Correct, the novel thing Element X does different is sliding sync which allows for much faster partial syncs when the app is opened. The classic apps would have to do a much more substantial (and energy intensive) sync each time it was brought up to foreground.

The big drawback are the X versions are still very far from feature complete.

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g-b-r 966 days ago
It can use (and I think it's the default) UnifiedPush on F-Droid
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SushiHippie 966 days ago
Default is pull, but if you have ntfy installed it shows a popup and lets you decide between pull or unifiedpush(ntfy).
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