almost two years of sptfy.in

it’s almost sptfy.in’s two year anniversary, which is kinda wild, a lot has changed.

everything is almost new since then, a better workflow (for me), better UI*, a new local guest account feature, (and finally) an actual account feature with oauth support for discord and google !

almost everything under the hood moved around too. the app is now on svelte 5, the homepage was rebuilt around the newer ""redesign language"" (use that term lightly), and link management is a lot less duct-taped together than it used to be (it still is but yeah)

a short ramble

in my last ko-fi post, i was working on migrating the project to svelte 5 alongside accounts and link management. back then, the plan was still built around spotify's oauth, and it was honestly really close to being released.

(lll￢ω￢) then spotify announced api changes that basically made spotify oauth impossible at the scale of this site.

on top of that, life got busy, and i wasn’t able to actively work on sptfy.in for a while.

but hey, we’re here now.

what changed

the biggest user-facing change is that guest links are not throwaway anymore.

• if you make links on the same device, the app can remember them locally, so you can come back and find your recent stuff again without needing an account first.

accounts are also real now. (wow, crazy)

you can sign in with discord or google, then manage your links from the dashboard /@/dash/.

the spotify part changed direction because it had to. spotify auth was the original plan for identity, it’s literally what this project built around if you can’t tell, but the api changes made that path way too fragile.

keeping the site alive mattered more than forcing the old plan, so auth moved to providers that are more realistic for a public app.

there is also a new updates page at /@/updates, which is where longer notes like this can live. the generated CHANGELOG.md still exists for the cleaner release history, but these posts are for my ramblings :p, what shipped and why.

the redesign bit

the homepage got a pretty big visual reset. the goal was to keep it playful, tactile, and fun while keeping the performance.

mobile got extra attention because a lot of link-making happens from phones.

tbh, there’s still alot of page that remains unchanged and hasnt been redesign, but i have a life

expect some weirdness

this release is a pretty big reset for the project. there are probably going to be bugs, weird edge cases, and things i missed, so if you run into anything, please let me know through GitHub Issues.

i also opened up GitHub Discussions, so you can ask questions, suggest stuff, or just talk about the project there.

a lot of you have already been really helpful with bug reports, feedback, and testing random broken things, and i’m genuinely grateful for that :D

support

lastly, sptfy.in is still user-funded. if you use it and want to help keep it alive, please consider supporting it on ko-fi. it genuinely helps a ton with the longevity of the project.

thank you for sticking around. 💖

what’s new

• local guest links, so links made on the same device can be found again
• real accounts with discord and google oauth
• a refreshed svelte 5 app foundation
• a cleaner homepage and link-management workflow
• a public updates page, so longer release notes can live on the web
• generated release notes through release-please and CHANGELOG.md