For a long time Cerb was me-shaped: one admin session, uploads in a shared pile, content that existed to feed the public site. That works until a friend needs to drop a zip without me babysitting every file.
So I landed the boring foundation first: real users with password hashes and roles, sessions that aren’t a shared secret taped to the wall, per-user drop storage with quotas in human units, and visibility so “on my box” doesn’t automatically mean “on the internet.”
Invites, media, share links, and People only make sense once accounts and storage are first-class. It’s still not a SaaS. Default friend quota is intentionally small. If someone needs more, they ask — which is the point. Infinite free hosting is how you wake up to a full disk and a bad mood.
Member UX for this lives under /hub/*; staff CMS stays on Admin — Hub is not Admin.