change the allowed images/allowed items to come from a seperate JS bundle about collabopath HOT 2 OPEN

Serve images over external CDN. Faster and no need for rebundling / redeploying.
Also make image requests easier. It's a key part of the stories. Probably don't manually validate the image, but let users validate(vote) it. Else a path submission would be stuck until you've validated the users image request.

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So the images are served over a CDN, along with the js files, html, css, etc. The js bundles have the names of the images that the user is allowed to see. So image1.jpg, image2.jpg, etc. And when the component gets rendered, it simply sets image1.jpg as the image src, and the users browser loads the image over cloudfront. The bundle just tells the user which images they are allowed to use when creating a path object.

Also requesting additional images isn't integrated with the site because there's no way I'd be able to monitor every users image submission, and I want to avoid offensive content on the site. However, the path submissions don't get manually validated, they simply start a timer, and once the timer ends the one with the most votes wins. The image validation that I was referring to is via patreon. if a user wants to submit their own images to the site they become a patron, and then make a post on patreon with an image that they want added. and i verify that image before adding it to the site. Maybe in the future this will change, but for now I wanted to do it this way to prevent offensive images from being uploaded.

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