Continuing on V3 of this project, I once again tackle auth. One of the bigger challenges this time around was (since I'm implementing my own auth) figuring out how I wanted to handle email services and verification. I looked at a few different options, before eventually settling on what will (hopefully) be the easiest.

A lot has changed since the last time I attempted this project! After attempting a Django solution in my last iteration, I ended up returning to Next.js. Using what I've learned from re-iterating on STOR8, it's just been easier to use TypeScript to handle what I want to do.

Stor8 is almost finished! After finishing up on both password protection and tags today, the site is almost at the same level as the first version (with greater ease of access and a cleaner UI). The estimated release date is in two days, so I thought I'd catalogue some of the recent changes.

Stor8 was one of the oldest projects I've done as 8byte. However, the original version was very poor in quality and was missing a lot of important features. This new version uses a lot of the things I've learned in the past year to be a much higher quality product.

With a tentative release yesterday (and a bigger release planned for Tuesday), ArtScuffle is now live to all users! The past week has been a hectic blur of getting everything ready and set up for public use; a lot of my time was dedicated to cleaning up the website, integrating Stripe and Discord API, and making some final changes to the bot.