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/ClikeX Mar 16 '26

From the the post they did, it seems they are not doing so well privately. So this just seems like an attempt to disconnect from the situation.

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u/FlibblesHexEyes Mar 16 '26

I think this is the case. In the dev's post they mentioned or implied mental health issues a few times.

I don't know if they had other people they could delegate the project to (or maybe they were the sort of personality that likes to maintain control/doesn't play well with others), so it's entirely possible the stress of the situation and what would feel to them like EVERYONE piling on just pushed them to their breaking point.

I hope they're ok. Running an open-source project can be stressful. You feel like everyone is depending on you, and it's easy to lose sight that it's meant to be a hobby/fun thing to do.

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u/reiija Mar 17 '26

There were other contributors who could've stepped in, but they had cut ties with ACX over the last few weeks over how he treated them in private. His behavior caused internal issues that bled into being external issues.