In 2023, I wrote about how Val Town moved away from Supabase and toward a more conventional database setup. We were using a lot of Supabase's functionality, including their authentication. So when it came time to move we found equivalents: Render for the database, and Clerk for authentication. But life came at us fast, and by late 2023 we had an issue filed: get off of Clerk. That issue was finally closed a month ago, when we switched to Better Auth . Some important context is that Clerk is a major success. They just raised 50 million dollars and they have lots of satisfied users. Heck, in related news Supabase raised 100 million dollars at a 5 billion dollar valuation . Congratulations to both of them. I would make a terrible venture capitalist. Whatever opinions and experiences I hold about authentication and row level security are secondary to these numbers and proof. You can't argue with success. But still, I am happy to have closed that issue and switched to Better Auth.…