Ivo Rothschild

I added a PR https://github.com/sigmavirus24/requests-toolbelt/pull/188

Seems django team is still debating this (https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/18392#comment:26) but django-allauth uses a setting EMAIL_MAX_LENGTH, see https://github.com/pennersr/django-allauth/blob/7e27fd995cacea1e03bee811ba588305ae3c76f2/allauth/account/models.py#L28 , which allows to to easily use utf8mb4 now without changing the db configuration...

I tend to agree with keeping the auth User model just for auth so would favour a 2 or 3 model solution. However, it would be wonderful if there was...

I agree. The design of when validation gets done seems very odd. It lets you write an invalid model data to the db and then does validation when you read...

Yes, I can access it but the code in drag is simply checking if the plugin is enabled and not whether it's paused.

Can you use the Hapi Connection options `uri` for this? http://hapijs.com/api#serverconnectionoptions