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Oooof just pushed a fix for that. It's a lot easier to make a theme in multiple 'sittings' instead of all at once. Your themes get stored under your account so you can come back to them later. Also used for posting the themes in the 'hub'. Localstorage seemed too flakey for theme data storage... it would be a really bad experience to lose an hours worth of theme data.

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localStorage is fairly reliable. Far better than the login requirement. Maybe just make it clear to the user that their settings may be lost if they don't login? i.e. login to "hard save"

Agreed. I think localStorage is as well, but if that isn't the case then there's still other options. You can make login option, download the settings and upload later, save to Google Drive, Dropbox, iCloud, etc.

You can use anonymous firebase login option to log in users in the background and when they are finished, prompt them to use oauth login.

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