We mentioned social login in our previous changelog. We were waiting for Google to approve the social login. Today, we are happy to announce that Google authentication has been activated. You can now use your Google account to either create a new account or log in to your existing account, whether it was created using email/password or Google social login. We use Django-allauth for our authentication system. Additionally, we underestimated the effort involved in integrating with Hellokea.

Changes

• Activated Google login.

Backend Developments

• Our first integration will be Mastodon and we are working on that.

As you might know, we are working on social authentication for Hellokea login. Although the implementation appears much simpler from the developer’s side, it may take some time to receive approval from various providers after certain verifications. Once those verifications are complete, we can roll out options for different types of login. GitHub authentication is already activated, so you can use your GitHub account to log in or sign up. The existing signup account information has also been successfully integrated.

Changes:

• Rollout of GitHub authentication for signup and login.
• Microsoft authentication is complete and will be rolled out as soon as we receive approval from Microsoft.
• Google login is complete, but the Google verification process takes time.

Backend Developments

• Started working on our next feature: social posting.