You are downplaying the role of bundling effects especially for a company like Cloudflare.

I'm in the process of learning rust and rocket. Is there any auth library that you used, or implemented it yourself?

Also, how long have you been working on this?

Cool, I think you'll really enjoy it.

For authenticating with Google and Facebook I used the oauth2 crate.

For logging in in general I used private encrypted cookies as described on this page: https://api.rocket.rs/v0.4/rocket/http/enum.Cookies.html

I used a Request Guard that decrypts this cookie into the corresponding user identifier. Here's a link to that page: https://api.rocket.rs/v0.4/rocket/request/trait.FromRequest....

I've been working on this for a little over a year now, off and on.

Let me know if would like me to expand on any of these points.

found this on reddit for this post:

"I applaud this. And it reminds me of the up-goer five. https://xkcd.com/1133/"

You link doesn't work because of the double quote at the end.

Working link: https://xkcd.com/1133/

Randall Munroe did a whole book in this style: https://xkcd.com/thing-explainer/

It's a lot of fun.

for those looking for another open source task tracker, taskwarrior[1] is a good cli option. You can use VIT[2], curses-based front-end to taskwarrior. I don't use VIT, but taskwarrior integrates nicely with vimwiki using taskwiki[3].

[1] https://taskwarrior.org/ [2] https://github.com/scottkosty/vit [3] https://github.com/tools-life/taskwiki

Off topic: curious.. you submitted this post twice recently. why on top now?

Probably just shows how much luck is a part in making HN frontpage

why isn't there an OAuth system that is purely GPG keys based. For example I could sign some custom message from the server using only my keys, without ever having to deal with emails.

This way sign-up is as seamless as login. Is there anything like this I can use? Are websites not doing this because of spam and other issues?

You may be interested in https://indieauth.com/pgp

exactly what I was looking for. thanks!

there are ways to get over other forms of trust, for example: use being pseudoanonymous. There is no way around video, unless you happen to wear a mask.

Gold is always on option :)

is this Australian? seems like it's endemic to United States FL.

https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.8725...

By "this" I meant the bee in the example picture I linked, Amegilla cingulata.

isn't this more like "An open source Firestore alternative" right now. Do you plan to bring other features as well?

I'm a big fan of firebase and use it whenever I can. The reason it's appealing it because it's the suite of tools and how well they work together for bootstrapping (auth, firestore, storage, analytics etc). No single feature by itself is useful to me.

I would definitely switch if this atleast had (auth + db + file storage + functions).

See my comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23320443

tldr: > We've been building furiously since January but (not surprisingly) we haven't yet reached feature parity. But we will :)