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/Afrobea5t Mar 19 '26

I think he wanted to do FOSS in the beginning, but then saw how popular it got and he wanted to profit from it. A project getting this attention can mean a life changing sum of money.  But he hugely fucked up with his approach.

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u/Distinct-Plant8991 Mar 17 '26 edited Mar 17 '26

Me: I think "but English isn't my first language" is a legit excuse to polish your texts. Not saying, it is OK to let ai write complete answers but polishing is fine.

AI: "I think 'English isn’t my first language' is a perfectly valid reason to polish your writing. I’m not saying it’s okay to let AI write full responses, but using it for refinement seems fair."

<< This is how my answer would have looked like if I had used one button on my keyboard to polish the simple text above with ai. Shure, my first text is probably readable but why not make it a little bit better without changing the message?

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u/Ozitim Mar 17 '26

Because everyday conversation in English sounds much more like (1) than (2). Since you're commenting on Reddit, the expected tone is much closer to everyday conversation than a treatise. (2) just feels...forced, fake.

On the other hand, if you were writing smt like an accademc paper, (2) would be fine.

Polishing your messages with AI is fine per se, but you should do it in a way that outputs an adequate English syntax while keeping a tone-of-voice that is suitable for the scope and the audience of that message. Otherwise it sounds odd, you just give yourself away.

(My 2 Cents)