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Approve an address BEFORE the person registers and their sign-up produces no queue row at all — `_decide` only takes a still-pending invite — so the Access-requests screen sat empty, the tab badge read zero, and the only working move was re-typing the address into the whitelist box. Nobody would guess that, and on 2026-09-03 nobody did. This is roadmap UX-25, where two earlier attempts were reverted after review. Both moved AUTHORITY: auto-activating on registration turns a standing whitelist entry into a bearer grant for whoever registers the address first, and reopening the approved invite to `pending` lets an anonymous sign-up REVOKE a standing approval. What was actually missing was visibility, so this changes nothing about what an unauthenticated caller can cause — the admin could already do exactly this by re-entering the address; they just had no way to know they had to. The section lists every account that cannot sign in yet and says WHICH gate is shut, because the two dead ends look the same from the admin's chair: waiting for activation, or waiting on a confirmation mail. Naming the unconfirmed ones is not decoration — on a no-SMTP instance that is the difference between the owner and whoever registered the address first (SEC-15), and an admin about to let someone in should see it. A person the queue above already covers is deliberately NOT listed here; two buttons for one person is worse than one. Activate is gated on `is_allowed` — the same function the sign-in paths consult, in core, so the button that appears and the badge that counts cannot disagree. Without that gate it would manufacture an inconsistent account: password sign-in only checks `is_active` and would let them in, while their Google sign-in would be turned away and silently reopened as a fresh access request. Letting in someone with no approved invite stays the whitelist box's job, which says so out loud. The badge counts activations SEPARATELY from pending invites rather than widening an existing field's meaning, and only counts what genuinely waits on the admin: an unconfirmed account waits on its owner, so it is listed with a re-send but does not nag. The admin-side resend says plainly what happened, including refusing when the instance has no working SMTP — mail is fail-soft everywhere else, and that silence is exactly what left the 0.78.5 sign-ups with nothing to fall back on. `send_verification_link` is now one function with three callers (registration, the public resend, this one), so the link's shape and TTL cannot drift by who triggered it. UAT on localdev, both languages: the UX-25 shape reproduced end to end (approve the address, then register), the badge counting it, Activate letting them in and dropping the badge, the row losing its Activate but keeping the re-send, a fresh token issued by the re-send, and both actions in the audit log. Test data removed.
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
Database migrations run automatically on startup. Your data (accounts, subscriptions, playlists, the
video catalog) lives in a Postgres volume — back it up with scripts/backup.sh (or backup.ps1 on
Windows) and restore with scripts/restore.sh.
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.
Note
This project is developed with AI assistance.