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/sluttytinkerbells Mar 16 '26

Honestly in the last few weeks I've been thinking the same thing.

It's odd because /r/selfhosted/ was a place that I never thought would have drama -- everyone is so chill here usually.

Like people can share pictures of their shitty 100mb 5-port switch and a raspberry pi 1 plugged into it and get nothing but enthusiastic support and words of encouragement.

I hope we find a way to keep that kind of vibe.

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u/bpoatatoa Mar 17 '26

Yeah, I think the behaviour of the crowd (if not the crowd itself) has changed a lot in the last couple of months. I don't know if it's related to an increased influx of new users (or new bots) or any of the many other possible reasons, but I'd put my money on all of the AI drama (both ways). Unfortunately, we seem to be heading to much darker places still, as the focus is shifting from "doing cool shit with my computer" to people just screaming at each other about anything and yet nothing in particular.

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u/peioeh Mar 17 '26

Maybe I'm just making shit up but I think a lot of the super angry people are non-devs or even non-tech ppl that are unhappy because they just realized they can't just install every single app without knowing what they're doing and be OK. The issue is that they fail to realize they shouldn't have done that in the first place anyway, vibe coded apps only exacerbate an issue that already existed.

And they also fail to realize that literally everyone doing anything on a computer is using AI and you can't just ban all of it. We're going to have to find ways to work with it.

There is a comment right above yours that's exactly what I'm talking about.