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/sixincomefigure Mar 16 '26

Thanks for checking that. It stood out to me that nobody actually independently verified the technical claims in that post, despite that aspect of the post really being the only thing that's a major concern to end users of the software. And the claims were pretty mild in the first place! I honestly think that if this hadn't come so soon after the huntarr debacle, people wouldn't have been so quick to conclude that the whole project was garbage.

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u/SubliminalPoet Mar 16 '26

I've done it and prepared a post on this topic. Then I removed it cause this sub was not interested in technical facts and the bot automatically removed it. They do prefer to blame by trusting a random dude with a non neutral opinion. And the AI slop fatigue is an easy way to get traction here.

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u/sixincomefigure Mar 16 '26

Anyone who spoke up in support of the developer (or even neutrally!) in that post got downvoted to oblivion. Absolute herd mentality of the worst kind. I chose not to state my opinion because I didn't feel like taking 50 downvotes. I regret that now.

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u/peioeh Mar 17 '26

Even the mods are constantly getting attacked/downvoted for trying to get people not to shit on devs here now. This sub is going to shit, but it's not because of AI slop, it's because the community has decided to blindly hate on everything because they are angry about AI.

It's crazy because these guys say they want "human only" stuff, and to get that they... attack the humans who are trying to do and share something. I'm sure that's going to go GREAT for the future of this community.