Known Issues (Action Required), Removing Patreon restriction, Stream announcement (Patreon)

After being rather ill (thankfully the test results came back negative!) during the last three weeks, I am currently orienting myself about the issues at hand. 

Known issues

Please comment below with votes for urgency, which will help me prioritize:

- Character import is currently not working: I have created a new endpoint to retrieve the character data from, but it's not yet in the source code. I will work with Jack on this fix soonish. I will probably need to move the file download proxy to the new infrastructure, too, so it will take a couple of moments longer. 

- Patreon connection not functional: see below

Removing Patreon restriction

Currently, the check if someone has a valid pledge or not defaults to "yes, this is a Patreon". This check is run when you login into the extension using your Google account, so log out there, then log back in and it should unlock Patreon mode. Please report in this thread if this is indeed working.

Opening the tools for the public is a test-drive, too. I would rather focus on development of the tools than on developing authentication schemes and restrictions, and that all depends on your willingness to support this development in the long run. 

This might be an awkward moment to do so since I am not very communicative in the last weeks, but it's still the right path in the long run. Let's strip that band-aid even if it will hurt momentarily ;)

For infrastructure, I am currently moving many things from a single server to a distributed infrastructure, which does cause quite significant raised costs. I do think it's worth it. It will create more possibilities like

• image downloads from within FVTT
• general image processing (more on that later)
• vastly improved mask handling in the (shush! Hold that back for the stream!) ... oooh, okay!

Save the date: 12th of december

I will be joining the Discord for a dev stream on Saturday night (my time). You can use this time slot to yell at me, ask me questions and more importantly: Have a look at something I am working on to provide feedback on it. I do not want to spoil the surprise, but it's gonna be graphical. I don't want to commit to a certain time since that is still problematic for me, but I will try to be there for the whole night (again: my time), so we will find some time together.