While struggling to get WLED working on C3 and S3 boards I’ve seen mentions of the need to flash a bootloader, a partition map and an app0 bins but all mentions lead to Discord which is inaccessible to me. Are these resources available elsewhere/ could a member who does discord kindly post the instructions and resources here as well?
Just use the alternative installer here and select the proper memory config for your board
Cheers, that worked though I had to borrow a windows machine to do the trick. Curiously, having failed to get it to work on mine (hardened system) I tried flashing binaries downloaded from the same source so obviously the flasher uploads multiple binaries, not everything packaged in one, and only downloads the WLED portion itself.
I would still like to be able to just use esptool on my own system so my plea for files and some guidance still stands. 
Correct, the release bins are app only.
Especially for S3 posting individual bootloader, partitions etc bins is not practical because there are tons of variants based on the board config, the bootloader also may need to be different based on the framework used to build the app, etc… there would be way too many possibilities of using a wrong combo.
There was talk of posting combined “factory” bins for serial flashing of a blank module but they can’t be used for OTA so the app-only bins are still needed.
Best is to set up a compile environment if you want everything local.