Anonymous gist API deprecation

https://github.com/blog/2503-deprecation-notice-removing-anonymous-gist-creation

Will break the following features:

1. Web permissions editor (https://lpedit.lucko.me/ , /lp editor, /lp user <user> editor etc etc)
2. Verbose paste functionality (/lp verbose paste)
3. Tree view (/lp tree)
4. Debug output (/lp debug)

We have one month to figure out solutions - probably in the above order of priority.

The 2 & 3 rely specifically on Gist for it’s markdown rendering. Gonna be a PITA to replicate with another service. Will probably end up requiring a custom frontend site, similar to the web editor.

4 isn’t regularly used, could either be removed or moved to a different service.

The web editor is less problematic, either need to find a (relatively) reputable pastebin service with an API or make our own.

[lucko]

I’ve made some good progress with this issue.

Based on the discussion above (thanks for everyone’s ideas) - I think the best course of action is for the project (me) to host a simplified upload service for LuckPerms web data. We can always look at moving this elsewhere in the future.

I wrote this last night - super simple but should do what we need it to.
https://github.com/lucko/bytebin
Has a post API to submit data, returns an id of the resultant “paste”. Browsing to /<id> will return the raw content. Uploads (currently) expire after 1 day.

A new version of the web editor is live at https://luckperms.github.io/editor/ - it’s using the new upload service for data transfer.

Instead of implementing a site to just render markdown produced by the plugin (to replace Gist’s functionality), I think now’s a good time to move the other web stuff (verbose & treeview) over to nicer sites.

There’s an early prototype for verbose here. https://luckperms.github.io/verbose/

The plugin is updated for these changes, but I haven’t merged them into master just yet.
https://github.com/lucko/LuckPerms/tree/web

Still need to work on porting the tree view stuff. Should be fun. 😃

[lucko]

This evening I’ve also tried with https://hastebin.com - it meets everything except no. 5. Bit of a long shot but I’ve submitted a PR to support CORS. I’m not sure how if it will get merged into production or not - but thought it was worth a try.