A Few Driftlet Updates (June 2025)
Hi! It's Ryana.
First up, Driftlet now has a website. Check out Driftlet.xyz for future updates and announcements.
Bonus: We’ve also got a Docker image now. More details in the announcement here.
Also, we still don’t have docs so don’t believe the website. You will be Rick Rolled.
I’ve been working on Driftlet for a few days now so here’s what’s new:
Major stuff:
- Post tagging is finally in
- Added a password recovery flow because I keep forgetting my password
Minor stuff:
- Added navigation on posts (thanks Abdul)
- Added author info on posts
- Updated the login UI to match the rest of the design
Speaking of passwords, I wasted way too much time debugging why I couldn’t log into my own instance so I kept resetting my password over and over, and nothing worked. Turns out my username had changed and I completely forgot about it. Turns out, it was set to the header. No idea why or how, but there it was.
The fun part is that I built this whole system where if the DB password field is set to “reset,” it automatically resets the password and it works fine. I even set it up with proper recovery.
Anyways, none of that mattered because the actual issue was just the username being different. So yeah, two hours lost on something I could’ve solved in ten seconds if I checked the username field.
Soooo I might add a forgot username flow too at this point.
That’s all,
Ryana
