readme.makary.online<p>So, I think I'm almost ready for some open beta of the registration on my project. Yay me?
Summary is as follows:
1. I want to run a federated discussion forum using <a href="https://readme.makary.online/tag:Mbin" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">Mbin</span></a>
2. Because I will want to put another services as a part of the same project/domain, including but not limited to <a href="https://readme.makary.online/tag:mobilizon" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">mobilizon</span></a>, and maybe even multi-user <a href="https://readme.makary.online/tag:writefreely" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">writefreely</span></a>, I need something to handle authentication and user access to all of them
3. Initially I wanted to go with <a href="https://readme.makary.online/tag:Zitadel" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">Zitadel</span></a>, but I realised that it has baked in First and Last name required fields, and to be honest, I am absolutely not interested in this data, and even explicitly <em>don't want to</em> have to keep and process it; so I don't really want to make my users have to fill this out
4. I stumbled upon <a href="https://readme.makary.online/tag:authentik" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">authentik</span></a>, and while I appreciate possibility of setting up complex auth flows and such without the need to touch raw code, it seemed a little bit daunting.
5. I found a set of really awesome tutorials by <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLH73rprBo7vSkDq-hAuXOoXx2es-1ExOP" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Cooptonian on YouTube</a>, and I managed to solve not only setup, connecting the client apps, emails and password recovery, but also I got a way better grip on the inner workings of Authentik, and feel confident that if I need to do some minor tweaks to it, I will be able to.
6. I hope I will deploy the pemultimate flow today, that is the signup/invitation flow, and I will be ready to invite selected amount of people for some tests of the project, so hang on tight!</p>
<p>If you got that far, thank you for reading, I will write more on that (and unveil a related thing!) in the upcoming days, so come back!
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Be warned tho, that it was created with more technical posts in mind!</p>