I love working on the terminal and this looks great, but can I ask why do you require to sign in? To be that's a bit of a downer :(

totally fair point! the medium/long-term roadmap is to layer in a BBS-esque community, so identity is required. more on this later! regardless, might be nice to have an unauthenticated / "Skip sign in" flow for the folks who just want to use the tool.