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This backend does very very little outside of continually polling the reddit API for new messages and some other sundry tasks for operating the iOS app. There's nothing here that suggests any of this could be built out to a full fledged social media backend that is similar to reddit. Not to detract from the work being done but it's for a very specific use case: supporting adding features to the app frontend



This is bang on.


Yep - but the backend could be rewritten to work from a new datastore. The actual data model isn't complex.

The entire public reddit database of posts, comments, and users could be imported as a starting point.




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