I want to use a chat feed alert to report an error that's not directly related to a chat message...

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Description

I want to use a chat feed alert to report an error that's not directly related to a chat message -- in my case, failure to parse a YAML file in one of my scripts.

Why the chat feed? To make sure I actually see this message before the stream starts. Putting this in the chat feed makes it very visible whereas I'm not studying the Firebot log while preparing to go live.

However, the dependencies in chat-feed-alert.js prevents such a chat feed alert from showing up, with an error in the Firebot logs about the dependency not being met.

    definition: {
        id: "firebot:chat-feed-alert",
        name: "Chat Feed Alert",
        description: "Display an alert in Firebot's chat feed",
        icon: "fad fa-exclamation-circle",
        categories: [EffectCategory.COMMON, EffectCategory.CHAT_BASED],
        dependencies: [EffectDependency.CHAT]

I found that by commenting out the dependencies the chat feed alert appears just fine. So I wanted to ask ... can/should this dependency be removed, since there really doesn't seem to be an inbound or outbound dependency on chat?

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