Great points @anon93421088. Thank you for sharing them.
Furthermore, you could make the argument that not being able to upload map backgrounds actually decreases Schmeppy’s efficiency. I’m running Storm King’s Thunder right now, which comes with loads of maps, and I can tell you that I’m not looking to recreate those maps in the Schmeppy grid which could take a long time. Certainly compared to a quick upload.
This is super true and is why uploading maps is an accepted feature. It’s way annoying to have to decide whether to ditch Shmeppy for another tool or try and draw a premade map with Shmeppy’s drawing tools (they sure aren’t made for replicating an already built map…).
I’ve had the same thought and I have been trying to prioritize this feature more highly… but it’s tricky.
Anyway TLDR please reprioritize! I would love this
Long-Term Roadmap Snapshot places this feature on a timeline of happening within this year, which is fairly fast.
Some of the other features that are marked before it I’d say are more important. Like the optimization work that I’ve lumped into mobile support (and that I’ve been putting out releases for) really needs to happen. It’s clearly more important than background images.
But some of the other things I’d say are not more important (like access controls could certainly wait).
I’m worried about doing it sooner because it’ll be a hugely time-consuming feature to implement though, and then an expensive one to maintain (in both time and money). So I want to transition out of early access very shortly after making this feature available.
And if I haven’t hit my usage goals by that time, switching out of early access won’t be a good idea because it’ll limit my growth too much. I’m counting on the userbase being big enough for word-of-mouth’s exponential effect to carry it forward even after Shmeppy is gated behind a paywall (so-to-speak).
I keep seeing posts on Reddit that are like “I just want a tool I can upload a map to and move tokens around” and it’s a bummer I can’t point them to Shmeppy yet. But I feel like I’m getting there…