So that nobody is blindsided when this does change, be aware that in the near future, towns will be organized by their Alliances in the Towns List page on the website.
Yes, though in that specific update, probably only Town total levels, any sublevel stuff (which won't be public) will probably come later, in addition to a town gallery.
How will the chests work when an alliance dissolves. Would the town that placed the items be able to pull the items back out of the chests or would the chest lock the items in? Might want to avoid coding that would cause ,when the chests unlink, dooping or deleting the items. I.E. when the chests unlink, the contents of the chests are able to be pulled out by both towns without effecting the other towns chest.
If an alliance dissolves, the contents of the embassy chests are lost. This is fine, because for the most part, embassy chests are meant to be used for trading, not really storage; hence why they are single-chests.