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This looks great :) I didn't create a theme because of the soft login lock, but it seems like a really great tool.

As someone who spends FAR too much time on theming, this also might be a bit dangerous ;)

It'd be nice to let people create themes anonymously and only save them to localStorage, then require an account if they want to do more from there.

I considered this a little, but I want to optimize for a more robust set of features in the future that would require an account... E.g. eventually handling the submission to the marketplace for the user, etc. + I was worried about users potentially losing lots of work if LocalStorage gets wiped for some reason.

maybe make the changes they make in-memory-only and prompt them to sign up to persist. Like what piskelapp.com do - you can edit an image and save it locally, but if you want to save it to your gallery you need to create an account.

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