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- Security: feeds from Patreon, Supercast, Supporting Cast, Glow and Memberful are never listed in Popular or the Directory. A Supercast feed keeps its key in the URL's path, which the query check missed, so it was being listed. - Adding a feed queues a scan of it, and an OPML import that added feeds scans what is due, so items show without pressing Scan. - A file deleted to save space, or by hand, looks as if it was never downloaded: no "reaped" chip, just the Download button. The retention summary says "deleted". - The feed header keeps its title and stats to one line each and wraps its buttons; a single feed's table drops the Feed column. - Tests: adding a feed shows its item without Scan; a deleted file shows no "reaped"; paid-feed hosts and acast public ids in the unit test. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016HdTEWQNrzyFULijigkmMn
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Accounts, and what several people share
ipx serves any number of people from one copy of the data. The rule that decides everything else: there is one file on disk per enclosure URL. Two people subscribed to the same show cost one fetch, one parse and one file.
What is yours, what is everyone's
| Yours alone | The same for everyone |
|---|---|
| Read, starred, playback position | The feed's URL |
| Which feeds you see at all | Its download folder |
| Keywords, auto-download, explicit, per-scan cap | When it is scanned |
| The file on disk |
The right-hand column describes the feed and the file rather than a preference — two people wanting
different folders would mean two copies. Those three are admin-only, and the API returns 403
for anyone else rather than merely hiding the controls.
How the scanner merges everyone's wants
One fetch serves every subscriber, so the policy is a union:
- an item is downloaded if anyone wants it — one person's keyword set matching is enough, and one person with no keywords removes the filter for that feed entirely
- auto-download is on if anyone has it on
- the per-scan cap is the largest anyone asked for
So "auto-download off" means I don't cause downloads, not I never see them. If someone else's subscription pulls an item, you see it listed as downloaded and can play it, because the enclosure is shared.
Deleting
Deleting a file deletes everyone's copy. A feed with other subscribers labels the button Delete
for everyone and names them in the confirmation, and the server has the last word: if anyone else
has starred the item or not played it yet, DELETE /api/enclosures/{id} answers 409 with the
reason, and only ?force=true goes through.
Retention follows the same rule: starred by anyone keeps a file, and it counts as read only once every subscriber has read it.
Signing in
Three ways, tried in order of how specific the claim is:
- A proxy header naming the user — Cloudflare Zero Trust or Authentik. Honoured only from an
address in
trusted_proxies. See sso.md. - A session cookie from signing in at
/login. Argon2id hashes, sessions in the database, idle timeoutsession_days. - The shared
[web] token, which signs in as the admin — this is what the Docker healthcheck and any scripts use.
A database with no accounts creates admin / ipodderx on the next daemon start and says so in the log. Change it:
echo -n 'a good password' | ipx user passwd admin
Adding someone
echo -n 'their password' | ipx user add sam
They sign in at /login and start with no feeds: subscriptions are per person. Adding a feed
someone else already has costs nothing — no second fetch, no second copy — it just appears on their
list with their own read state. Unsubscribing removes it from their list alone; only when the last
subscriber leaves does the feed stop being scanned, and even then its files and history stay, so
re-subscribing does not pull the back catalogue again.
Popular and Directory sit at the top of the feed list, above your own feeds. Popular, also
shown in the Add feed dialog, lists the ten feeds with the most subscribers on this server, you
included. Directory lists every one of them A to Z. Your own feeds are marked Subscribed.
It shows a title, artwork and a count, never a URL or who reads it. Feeds from an
OPML subscription are left out, since they come with the OPML. So is anything that looks private: a
login configured for the feed, credentials in its URL, or a key such as auth= or token= in the
query, or a feed from a paid-feed service such as Patreon or Supercast, which put the key in the
path. Those are someone's paid subscriptions, and listing them would let anyone here read what they
pay for.
An admin can do the same from Settings → Manage users…: add someone (with a password, or none for someone the proxy signs in), tick or untick Admin, or remove an account. Removing one takes its subscriptions and read state with it; downloaded files stay. The only admin cannot be demoted or removed there, so there is always someone who can manage the rest.
Admin
The first account is an admin. An admin can change global settings (scanning interval, quota,
retention, media types, download folder), a feed's URL, folder and schedule, and who has an account
and who else is an admin, and read the log, which names everyone's feeds and sign-ins. Everyone else
gets the Settings and Log buttons hidden and a 403 if they ask anyway.
ipx user list # the admin column says who