jrklaus8 starts pulling Canadian login auth in-house
The mike-Canada fork is moving sign-in off a third-party cloud service and onto its own self-hosted token system, in the name of keeping legal data on home turf.
The login screen no longer hands credentials to Supabase - a hosted service that startups commonly use for user accounts and authentication. Instead, jrklaus8 points it at the fork's own authentication backend, issuing access tokens locally. The framing is data sovereignty: keeping authentication, and the data behind it, inside infrastructure the fork controls rather than a US-hosted vendor.
Worth a caveat. So far only the login page has been moved - sign-up and the rest of the app still lean on Supabase. That leaves two authentication paths running side by side, which is the kind of half-finished migration that can quietly cause inconsistency. It's a clear statement of direction, but not yet a finished switch.
Spotted something wrong? Or know the PR text has fresher detail than the writeup above?