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i'm so looking forward to solving this auth issue on Downpour - i wanted to launch & then make lots of quick small changes to get some momentum up, but instead the big issue is one that needs some annoyingly deep work. i'm making good progress, but... it's a lot
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the core of the issue is, i think: Firebase's magic link auth is built on their Dynamic Links product, which they've now deprecated (except for this auth case). and it also... doesn't work for a small fraction of users? and it's so deep in their tech i don't think i can fix it
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i can see a Github issue with other people complaining about the same thing... but i have little hope they'll fix a tricky edge case in a deprecated product. so the best course of action seems to be... to switch auth providers entirely. so... i'm migrating everything to Supabase.
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but Supabase does their auth tokens differently, so I have to rewrite the backend to accept both kinds. and i have to rewrite all the auth flows within the app... and i'm trying to leave Firebase in place for now so i don't make everyone reauthenticate...
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anyway, it's a classic high risk yak shave, but hopefully will put the whole thing on better foundations. just annoying to be doing as a solo dev when i'd rather be adding some nice text decorations or alignment snapping or something. but that's life!
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