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Cloud Hosting Support (Hotlinking / Dropbox / Google Drive)

My group has been using Dropbox and Google Drive for some time to manage our sessions, including archiving all of the GM's assets. It'd be awesome if I could tell the library to "watch this folder" in Dropbox or Google Drive so I could bring in my tokens/maps/sounds/whatever. If that's too complicated, I'd still like to see an ability to hotlink to my assets or search for tokens by specific website. NOTE: The latter functionality is already supported, kind of... sometimes... as long as you know where your assets are, and they are publicly available. Do a site-specific search, for example "site:community.wizards.com map" to get maps from Wizards' community forums. It's a bit kludgey, but it works. (It works best if you have your own website and can set up directories for files.)
Definitely have to agree. I do mapping for Battletech and I want to use my own creations in campaigns. These are not small maps - I build for full-blown conflicts for Company to Batallion size. The smallest I have is roughly four pages and that can be really close-quarters. Unfortunately the current method of uploading is... painful, to say the least. I have never had this kind of issue before, but I simply cannot get the system to accept an upload of any maps unless they are essentially single-page - even the four-page maps refuse to upload. My Dropbox, on the other hand, does not have issues with uploading. If I could set up a linked Public folder from it... that would simplify the whole process. If the image could be made immediately available at a lower resolution and a back-end download started for upload to the library, that would at least give the chance to do map setup while waiting.