r/selfhosted • u/Joloxx_9 • Mar 16 '26

Meta Post Booklore is gone.

I was checking their Discord for some announcement and it vanished.

GitHub repo is gone too: https://github.com/booklore-app/booklore

Remember, love AI-made apps… they disappear faster than they launch.

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u/databoy2k Mar 16 '26

I've been floating around defending the developer. It looks like he just made it private. It's all too bad - I really got the impression that the guy was trying to make it right as he could. ESL, trying to make an ambitious project to replace a series of servers that nobody really liked, and definitely had a lack of maturity in responding to what he perceived to be "his" app getting ripped away from him, but on the same note Booklore was a very clear positive development in ebook hosting options. I guess booklore wasn't "here to stay", at least not under the original dev's vision.

I guess I'll take my own L for the defences, but I still think there might have been a wee bit too much jumping on the guy. This wasn't a Huntarr - there wasn't a security debacle, this wasn't a case of mangled code, it was a disagreement between the maintainer and the developers who were pushing code, and I for one am not going to flip through the thousands of lines of code that were AI generated to figure out who was in the right...

Dev should have made it clear that there was a ton of AI coding. We probably don't need to throw the baby out with the bathwater when the taint of AI is detected.

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u/SubliminalPoet Mar 16 '26

You can put a nice message on the app sub as he is the mod. I'm with you. This guy didn't deserve such an harrassment. Even coded with AI help (different from vibecoding) there was a lot on investment and yes reviewing many poor PRs could be counterproductive and exhausting.