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The epic-end review found 32 verified issues. This is the first fix round: the three highs, the user-facing mediums, and the tests that were passing for the wrong reason. Docs and the remaining low-severity tail are next. The boundary rule was the worst of them. Both `no-restricted-imports` regexes were written in plain "..." literals, where `\.` is an unknown escape that collapses to the any-char `.` — so the rule read like a boundary and matched far less than one. `../../lib/api` (the barrel every feature component imports) and `../../components/Feed` (the same file `../Feed` names) both sailed through a green gate. String.raw, a third pattern for the second spelling, and a vitest over ESLint.lintText so a rule that silently matches nothing can never look like a clean codebase again. closeThenNavigate waited for exactly one reclaim popstate. With a second Back-closable layer still mounted — a palette opened over the player — the navigation unmounted that layer too, and its reconcile backed over the entry the navigation had just pushed: "go to Channels" closed the player and landed on the feed. It now waits for the LAST programmatic back, then adopts the entries the navigation buried, and falls back after 250ms rather than hanging if no popstate is ever coming. The rail's inline rename died on arrival. With no domReference, floating- ui's returnFocus falls through to a module-global stack and restores some unrelated element from an earlier popover — blurring the field into its own commit-and-close, from the second popover of a session onward. The context menu now owns the restore: back to the row, but only if the row is still there and nothing else has claimed focus. Also: - Backspace under the cheat sheet stopped Plex playback and dropped to the grid; `back` now defers to any layer above, like `escape` beside it. - A move invalidated only the source list, so the target kept serving pre-move contents for 30s while the rail already counted N+1. - Every move error a user can reach is a 404, which `req` leaves to the caller — so the row snapped back in silence and the shipped moveErrors strings were unreachable. - swallowClick armed on long-press but was disarmed only by the click it was armed for; any press that produced no click ate the next tap on the whole list. - The context menu stayed parked over whatever row scrolled under it. - overflow-clip on the chip lanes ate the focus ring's top and bottom. - "Why is this off" rode on disabled rows, which show no tooltip and take no focus: a new `inert` item keeps the reason readable. - Shift+F10 was advertised app-wide but wired only on Playlists; it has its own scope now, and useContextMenu matches through the shared parser instead of its own literals. - Mod+K could not close the palette, `h` machine-gunned on auto-repeat, and both were bound above the branch that mounts their overlays. - Palette options were in the tab order under aria-activedescendant, and a scroll-synthesised mousemove stole the keyboard selection. - The OSD live region was created together with its own text. - Ending a rename stranded focus on <body>. - The Button variants' hover halves are `enabled:` — the one migrated site that had guarded its own lost the guard on the way in. - HU builtinLocked named the list "Watch later" in a Hungarian sentence. Tests: the chip-lane contract counted per FILE, so a second hand-rolled lane in an already-compliant file was invisible; the closeThenNavigate ordering test only passed on a popstate left behind by its neighbours and failed alone, so it moved to its own file.
Siftlode
Your YouTube subscriptions, the way a feed should work. Siftlode pulls every upload from the channels you follow into one clean, filterable feed — no algorithm deciding what you see, and no Shorts or livestream noise unless you want it. Self-hosted, multi-user, and private: your data stays on your own server.
Everything expensive (channels, videos, metadata) is fetched from YouTube once and stored locally, so filtering, searching and sorting are instant and don't burn API quota. Click a video to watch it in an in-app player that resumes where you left off — or open it on youtube.com so your own ad blocker and SponsorBlock keep working.
Features
- A readable subscription feed — sort and filter by channel, tag, language, topic, length, upload date or watch state; hide channels without unsubscribing; save filter setups as named views.
- Search all of YouTube from the feed — live results you can play, save or add to playlists like any other video; they stay temporary and out of your catalog unless you keep one.
- Channel pages & a channel manager — per-channel stats and uploads, priorities, and your own tags to slice the feed by.
- Playlists with two-way YouTube sync — build them locally, keep them in sync in both directions.
- In-app player with resume, plus keyboard/scroll controls.
- Download Center — save videos to the server with yt-dlp in a Plex-friendly layout (format presets, per-user storage quota), trim / crop / split & join them in a built-in editor, then save to your device, share with another user, or hand out a public watch link.
- Plex library (optional) — point Siftlode at your own Plex server to browse and play its movies and shows alongside your feed, with watch state kept in sync.
- Multi-user with per-user private state, a shared catalog, and a fair daily API-quota guard.
- Self-hosted & private, with a first-run web setup wizard and the interface in English and Hungarian.
Quick start (self-hosting)
You don't need to build anything — Siftlode runs from a prebuilt public image, and all configuration (your admin account, Google sign-in, email) happens in a first-run web wizard. You need Docker with the Compose plugin.
1. Get the files and run the installer:
git clone https://git.b1fr0st.eu/peter/siftlode.git
cd siftlode
./install.sh # Windows (PowerShell): ./install.ps1
The installer generates a private .env (secrets), pulls the image, starts the app + database, and
prints a one-time setup URL like http://localhost:8080/setup?token=….
2. Finish in your browser. Open that URL and follow the wizard:
- Admin account — the email + password you'll sign in with.
- Google sign-in (optional) — paste a Google OAuth client to enable "Sign in with Google" and pulling your YouTube subscriptions. Skip it to use email + password only.
- Email / SMTP (optional) — for verification/notification emails. Skip it and you (the admin) simply approve new accounts yourself.
Then sign in with your admin account. That's it. See docs/self-hosting.md for the full walkthrough.
Just trying it out? Press Enter at the installer's URL prompt to run on
http://localhost:8080.
Build from source (alternative)
Prefer to build the image yourself instead of pulling it:
git clone https://git.b1fr0st.eu/peter/siftlode.git
cd siftlode
cp .env.example .env
# generate the two secrets and paste them into .env:
python -c "import secrets;print('SECRET_KEY='+secrets.token_urlsafe(48))"
python -c "import base64,os;print('TOKEN_ENCRYPTION_KEY='+base64.urlsafe_b64encode(os.urandom(32)).decode())"
docker compose up --build -d # builds from the included Dockerfile
Open http://localhost:8080 and finish in the setup wizard as above. (Set a POSTGRES_PASSWORD in
.env too.)
HTTPS / public access
Port 8080 over plain HTTP is fine for a LAN or a quick trial. For public access put a reverse
proxy (Caddy, Nginx, Traefik…) in front to terminate TLS, and set the public URL (the installer
prompt, or OAUTH_REDIRECT_URL in .env) to your https://… address — this also marks the session
cookie secure. Add that same …/auth/callback URL to your Google OAuth client's authorized redirect
URIs. Behind a proxy, also set TRUSTED_PROXY_IPS so the rate limiters see the real client IP and
can't be bypassed via a forged X-Forwarded-For — see docs/self-hosting.md.
Updating & backups
docker compose -f docker-compose.selfhost.yml pull # or: docker compose pull
docker compose -f docker-compose.selfhost.yml up -d
That follows latest, which moves with every release. Set IMAGE_TAG=0.80.0 in .env to pin a
version and upgrade on your own schedule; released versions are listed in CHANGELOG.md
and in the app's Release Notes. The registry keeps only the newest few of those, so a pin decides
when you take the next hop rather than letting you stay put forever — see
docs/self-hosting.md.
Back up before upgrading. Migrations run automatically on startup and are not undone by pulling
the old image back. A backup is the database dump plus your .env — TOKEN_ENCRYPTION_KEY is
what decrypts the Google, SMTP and Plex secrets stored in that database, so a dump restored without it
is only half an instance. Use scripts/backup.sh (or backup.ps1 on Windows) and scripts/restore.sh;
the equivalent one-liners, the pinning recipe and the rollback steps are in
docs/self-hosting.md.
How it works
- Shared catalog, private state. Channels and videos are stored once and shared; each user's subscriptions, tags, playlists and watch/save/hide state are private.
- Cheap by design. Public reads are cached locally; a shared daily quota budget and a background scheduler keep unattended syncing within YouTube's free API limits. An optional API key lets backfill run without depending on a user's OAuth token.
Tech
FastAPI + PostgreSQL (SQLAlchemy, Alembic) backend; React + Vite + Tailwind + TanStack Query frontend; packaged as a single Docker image with Docker Compose.
License
GNU AGPL-3.0. You can run, study, modify and share Siftlode; if you modify it and let other people use it over a network, they are entitled to your modified source. Copyright © 2026 Siftlode contributors.
Note
This project is developed with AI assistance.