How to check Patron user status?

[lavish yacht]

Here's the API documentation for the "Get user public data" endpoint, https://lichess.org/api#tag/Users/operation/apiUser
In the example response you can see the deprecated patron field.
You can also see a patronColor-field.
If you want to use a non-deprecated field, you could use the patronColor field.

At the top of the API documentation page, there's a download link where you can get the OpenAPI specification, and it contains this description in the components part,

...
      "PatronColor": {
        "type": "integer",
        "description": "Players can choose a color for their Patron wings.\nSee [here for the color mappings](https://github.com/lichess-org/lila/blob/master/ui/lib/css/abstract/_patron-colors.scss).\n",
        "minimum": 1,
        "maximum": 10
      },
...

[grizzled arrow]

Thank you. What is not clear to me is if the PatronColor field is sufficient to know if the user has a patron status. A patron field or patronTier field would make much more sense to me. So the question is: why wa spatron field been deprecated (I couldn't find the info) and what is the correct way to check patron status?

[lavish yacht]

Oh, this channel is for support with the Lichess API,
not about design decisions... 😅
I don't think Lichess publishes design decisions anywhere,
but GitHub would probably be the closest thing - i.e issues and pull requests.
And maybe commit messages, but that's kinda tricky to consume. Typically code changes happen in https://github.com/lichess-org/lila first, and then the api-repository you linked to is updated afterwards.