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Flame

COLLAB
Velocity0.0

Self-hosted start page and application dashboard with built-in editors

github.com/pawelmalak/flame ↗

Self-hosted dashboard that finished its feature arc and stopped shipping in 2023.

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◆Current state
Flame is a self-hosted startpage for homelab services — app tiles, bookmarks, weather, and a search bar. The feature set it set out to build was finished across 2021 and 2022: custom app descriptions, Docker secrets support, a secondary search provider, and a custom theme editor. The most recent release in this feed is v2.3.1 from July 2023, and it is entirely bug fixes.
◆Where it's heading
The arc reads as a project reaching completion rather than one under active development. Later releases shifted from adding capability to correcting the edges of what already existed — search-provider interactions, iOS input rendering, theme editor field sizes, label wording. There has been nothing since.
◆Prediction
Nothing in these entries suggests further releases; anyone deploying Flame should treat the current version as the final one unless the project resumes.

◆Recent moves

  1. 3y ago

    Bug fixes for local search, iOS input styling, and theme editor

    The last release in this feed and a pure cleanup pass: same-tab search results now respected under local search, rounded iOS input fixed, theme editor color inputs enlarged, settings labels renamed. No new capability.

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  2. 4y ago

    Custom theme editor and secondary search provider

    The last release that meaningfully extended Flame — a custom theme editor and a configurable secondary search provider, plus fixes for the empty-app and empty-search crashes. Everything after this is maintenance.

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  3. 4y ago

    In-app location detection and tightened file permissions

    Adds direct location retrieval from the app, sparing users from looking up coordinates for the weather widget, and tightens permissions on files and directories Flame creates. Modest, but both are self-hoster ergonomics.

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  4. 4y ago

    Local search covers app descriptions; background task tuning

    Extends local search to app descriptions and fixes unsupported-character handling, alongside background task optimization. Small refinements to the search feature added shortly before.

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  5. 4y ago

    Custom app descriptions and a cluster deployment fix

    Adds custom descriptions for apps — the field later releases would make searchable — and fixes a fatal error when deploying Flame to a cluster. The clustering fix suggests deployments larger than the single-container homelab case.

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  6. 4y ago

    Docker secrets support

    Adds Docker secrets support, letting operators keep credentials out of environment variables. A small change that signals the project expected to be run by people with real deployment hygiene.

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