Why should I enable the DropTracker API?
The DropTracker relies heavily on a back-end infrastructure of regularly-cycling Discord Webhooks to transmit data from players using our plugin to our backend server, where we process them to provide what you see from our
Discord Bot.
That being said, providing a "public" list of webhook URLs online to thousands of players comes with it's issues.
Discord provides no inbuilt method of protecting webhooks; and simply sending a delete request to our endpoints can immediately remove them from service, and result in players who
do not have the API enabled not being able to track properly.
For this purpose, we highly recommend that all players using our plugin enable API Connections to our server, so that you can seamlessly upload your drops/achievements to our server regardless of whether there are valid Discord endpoints for you to send them to.
Using our own web server to receive these incoming submissions adds an additional level of ability for us to debug problems and pinpoint issues as well.
If you have any further questions on this topic, feel free to reach out for some support.
