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> streamlined automatic updates

Sure, from the user's perspective. But from the provider's perspective, there is a lot of infrastructure needed to reliably and automatically update on various platforms.

Compiling files per-platform, hosting them securely, checking checksums, binary self-replacement, settings migration for many possible settings...

Compare with deploying the server code, migration only for one data set (the one on the server), and then hitting refresh in a web browser.



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