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Fun fact: character limits aren’t there for no reason; I showed this off to a few friends and one of them logged in to post the entire Bee Movie script. :p

Otherwise just some minor housekeeping work and stubs here and there for email-based accounts.

After finally fixing Hackatime and letting the hours roll in, I can finally give a proper update!

Firestore now also stores usernames and user IDs, so that changing usernames is no longer a pain. The implementation is a bit slow currently, so that’s something to be worked on for the next devlog.

We also got some sweet, sweet for account settings and initial username input, reducing an already extensive JS load.

Got the basics done.

Almost lost my cool when GitHub reported that my API keys were being leaked all over again, but reading through the Firebase documentation that doesn’t seem to be of great concern.

Currently this is mostly based upon the Jam that (also) uses Firebase, but I plan to add additional features on top of it, like I did with the main site.

No, there won’t be image support. The fileserver (which supports more than just images) is down the hall, third door to your right.