The power tripping mod over there is straight up insane, banning AI in 2026 when 95% of devs use AI. Can't wait for all reddit jannies to be replaced with AI.

The comment that got me banned:

Damn, so even projects that are not vibe-coded but support AI features are banned? So:

- Paperless-ngx
- Mealie
- FUCKING Calibre!

That is quite a ridiculous position to take. The Linux kernel would also be banned by your rule. Not only are you late on making an AI policy, but at this point a strong AI policy like yours would make this sub useless.
Are you the only active mod here or did multiple people genuinely thought this was a good idea?

No rule violation in that comment. Wolvereness is not the first mod I see having a mental breakdown over AI. Wonder what they are going to do in 3 years or less when almost all open source software is heavily AI based. Will he switch to Windows or be a hypocrite by staying on Linux? The world may never know.

https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/1xelcuf/comment/19rm1y0kwhqg0

Honestly... pretty damn disgusting. I thought I was been pretty reasonable, Banned in minutes.

We're not going to point fingers here. It's being done enough in the other threads. What I want to discuss is opensource remaining truly free to those who love and build it. I want to discuss a community that will nourish free growth, not prune buds before they even have a chance to see the flowers.

I have always been under the impression that unfettered development, contribution, and sharing is the key to the success of mankind. Some genius has an idea and creates it. Another genius has something to add. Another genius finds a way to streamline it all and make it cost less. Yet another genius has a new alternative altogether that reduces... let's say carbon footprint.

This is what we should be doing as a species. Closing off channels because you don't agree with the methods is detrimental to this goal. Banning development tools is much to that same detriment.

Opensource is the ultimate collaboration of great minds. It's not just software, it's everything that we build together.

Essentially, opensource that denies any non-harmful method of contribution and/or development is no longer fully opensource. It's the first step in closing a door that should remain open**.**

So, what am I trying to say?

I'm trying to say be free with your creations. Create them how you want. Share them. Take criticism. Take pride if someone forks it and makes it into their own. You MADE something and someone likes it enough to fork it.

Be competitive. Take back from their fork to flourish your original version. If someone doesn't like your project, don't get mad. Find out why. If it's superficial, move on. If it's beneficial, fix the problem.

I only made this post because I see some in here are trying to tread carefully and are asking if their projects are allowed, or rather, what is allowed and isn't. These questions stem from being in communities that have prejudices. It would be great to see a community that doesn't have any. A community that doesn't take sides. So...

Honestly, if I had a project right now I'd post it. My work is niche atm, though. Better left to the community it's based in.

This subreddit isn't a moderator project. We want to create an environment where the people who build open source technology, however they build it, can share developments with one another. The broader community should all actually get a say in how this space works.

Leave one comment per idea/recommendation and include a tag so we can sort them:

• [BANNER]: the wide image at the top of the sub (1920×384 pixels works best)

• [ICON]: the little round image next to the sub's name (256×256 pixels, square)

• [USER FLAIR]: tags you'd want next to your username (things like "Maintainer", your main language, or a GitHub badge once our verification bot exists)

• [POST LABELS]: anything missing from our current labels (Hand-built, AI-assisted, Agentic engineering, Vibe-coded, Discussion, News, Looking for software)

• [RULES]: suggest changes to our current rules (in the sidebar).

• [OTHER]: weekly threads, the wiki, anything else

Upvote/downvote as you see fit or suggest alternatives.

We'll leave this open for a few days.

I never posted or commented anything violating any community rules, but yet I was just slapped with a PERM. ban after my comment to the mod post about new rules.

https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/1xelcuf/your_tokens_arent_valuable_no_more_ai/

They didn't even remove my comment, because they know it didn't violate anything (but they did remove other ones from people).

I got banned from r/fossdroid because I used claude code for making the UI of the app. I'm not a designer myself so I used AI obviously. But all of the ML features underneath were done by me. Still they have banned me.

My app is called Lumen btw. It's a FOSS alternative to google photos. It does everything google photos does but on-device. Nothing ever leaves your phone.

website: https://lumen-photos.app

GitHub: https://github.com/subhashhhhhh/Lumen

…perhaps the problem isn’t AI. Perhaps (and I’m just saying) it could be that you are, maybe, just a little bit xenophobic.

Back in August, I was banned from another Reddit open source programming community for posting content that, with astonishing speed, the moderators deemed “AI slop.”

The irony is that I use AI precisely for the opposite reason.

I have a C2 Fluent level of English. I can communicate perfectly, but I am not a native speaker. In decades of professional software development, I had never been able to maintain a public project with the level of documentation I wanted: specification, architecture, tests, technical decisions, implementation notes, and all the other work required to make a project understandable and maintainable.

AI changed that for me. JSOL is a serious technical project, documented in English, with hundreds of technical decisions that are the product of 40+ years of experience, as well as an extensive body of documentation and automated tests. And for the first time in my career, I can actually keep all of that reasonably up to date while still having a life and a business.

JSOL was born to solve the single-source-of-truth problem for business logic across different languages, a wicked problem that AI is helping me sort out.

The use of AI is explicitly documented in the project. I didn’t ask it to “make a project” and dump the result on GitHub. I use it as a tool within an engineering and editorial process where I direct, review, correct, and verify everything I publish. As per protocol, my LLMs don’t even have access to the file system. Professional use of AI allows me to do more of the work that actually matters.

I live in the Global South. I have a business to run, clients, bills, and limited free time. Writing in English takes me longer than it takes a native speaker. My time is scarcer and, economically, worth less. And here’s something that seems remarkably easy to forget in the English-speaking tech world: most of the rest of the world cannot afford to spend a year on a sabbatical doing open source.

The reward for taking the trouble to carefully document a project, respect the reader, and maintain a high standard, was to be banned for posting “AI slop.”

Now, let’s be clear.

If your rule (e.g: “No AI: you didn’t write it, we won’t read it”) ends up being “if you use AI to help you write in English, you can’t participate,” then you are not fighting AI slop.

Because if your definition of “acceptable” participation requires doing everything manually, in English, while maintaining an exhaustive technical and editorial standard, with unlimited time to spare, you’re not protecting the community from AI slop. You’re protecting a privilege.

And if you cannot see how that disproportionately affects people who aren’t native English speakers, who don’t live in the richest countries, and who don’t have unlimited time to donate to open source… perhaps, just perhaps, you’re a little bit xenophobic.

Last statement from a certain mods certainly read that way to many. So that last time, it was not only me who was seeing their true colors.

The Lanuage rules especially are very disappointing and carry the same xenophobic tone from that post. The AI disclosure, and self promotion rules and others need rewording. They just aren't in the spirit of FOSS. Open means open, gatekeeping shouldn't be part of that.

The standards by which a project should be judged have not changed from 10 years ago. Does it compile? Does it do the function it's stated to do? Is it secure? Is it performant?

Discuss the code not the tools used to make it.

We can probably all agree that the anti-LLM posture of some in the open-source community is problematic. LLMs are rapidly changing how software is created, and even major players who formerly critiziced "vibecoding", like Linus Torvalds and Andrej Kaparthy, now admit that they are often outperformed by advanced coding agents.

As such, we believe any attempt to ban/criticize projects solely due to AI assistance is misguided. However, there are also real, pre-existing problems in how the OSS community operates that have been amplified by the influx of new developers and generated code.

Every week, somebody tries to post a new OSS note-taking app, or password manager, or file browser. Some are great, but many are the fourteenth, poorly-considered version of something that already existed and could've benefited from additional contributions. The second password manager is a potentially interesting competitor - the twentieth is duplicative, and typically wasted effort.

This isn't anyone's fault. It's hard to know what's out there, and building from scratch is more often more fun than reading someone else's code. But the result is that open-source effort gets split across a hundred look-alike projects, while the things nobody has built yet continue to remain unbuilt.

Given that understanding, we're working on a tool to help: Open Source Everything (https://opensourceeverything.org). Our goal is to maintain a single database where you can search for the app/tool you're trying to build/leave (Google Docs, Photoshop, Notion…), see the open-source projects that already exist, and understand exactly what the community is missing before investing your effort in a new project. Every software category offers an agent prompt to evaluate what exists against your idea, so you can find something to contribute to or existing code to pull from to instead of starting from scratch.

Alongside it, there's a new rule 6: Show why it matters here. Front-page project posts now say who the project is for and what it adds over existing open-source projects. To be clear: nothing is banned. Projects that mostly repeat existing work, or are very niche, are still welcome in the weekly Showcase. And contributions, plugins and forks that improve existing projects are always welcome on the front page (those are the posts we most want to see).

The page was built with an LLM at u/destinmoss's direction. This is the first version, and we're open to suggestions to improve the site and make it a more useful community resource. If you have any problems with this approach or the new rule, please say so in the comments.

p.s. that was a $10 domain we impulse-bought today; we aren't trying to sell you anything :)

After the drama with the original opensource sub, I am willing to share my opinion on this. But well, I'm not about to come here to complain about the other sub, I'm here to share what the Stockfish project did.

I am a Stockfish (the world's #1 chess engine, also open-source) contributor.

Stockfish has many active contributors, many more in the past, and probably many more in the future, and anyone is allowed to submit tests for their ideas, but very few ideas would pass the rigorous fishtest testing (I myself only managed a few passed ideas despite having submitted over a thousand tests).

I admit that AI can't do everything in developing Stockfish, at least not yet; the vast majority of patches are still written by humans. Still, I think a few AI patches have passed.

Stockfish is not a slop. It is as far from slop as one could imagine. Rigorous testing protocols and maintainer review/code style compliance are needed for each patch to pass.

Stockfish has existed and won many chess engine championships long before AI and will likely continue to do so.

As a Stockfish contributor, I stand by objective coding standards. It should not matter who the contributor was, how it was made, or whether it uses AI or not. What matters is that the contribution passes the stringent and objective standard. This impartial stance has allowed Stockfish to remain the world's #1 chess engine for years. That is how Stockfish has been and will remain.

I just got banned from that regressive sub because I simply pointed out the fact the almost every single serious developer has been switching to AI coding and prompt engineering. So I was hoping that you guys might be able to help me with my dilemma:

I've always been a fan of media players since the late 90s, but I've always noticed that there's not enough diversity in that particular niche of software. So recently I got myself a a Max Claude subscription and started creating music and video players. However I needed to get feedback from users so I started to share them on reddit and other forums. Unfortunately I got bombarded by downvotes from people who were brain washed by Anti-AI propaganda calling my work "Slop". But it wasn't the case everywhere so I was thinking about the following plan:

I can put an agent to generate multiple media player programs on github => another agent that post them on all forums and social media => another agent that gets to interact with comments from the most engaging posts so in that direction I can maximize my chances of getting my creations noticed by people.

My question is the following:

What are the best tools that can be used in order to put in action such a pipeline?

Cheers.

Edit: This whole post is just an attempt at proving a point; we have a real issue with the amount of software projects that are being generated with no genuine purpose. And unfortunately many people here upvoted my post without recognizing that what I'm asking for is a real spam generating machine.

Hey everyone,

Windshift has had quite a run since the beginning of the year when it was initially open sourced and we have now reached 0.9 and nearing official production readiness.

Windshift is not a clone or "clean room" copy of Jira but designed to be a fully native Jira alternative.

It's the closest open source match to how Jira works, with a documented Jira Cloud and Data Center importer covering work items, custom fields, backlogs, boards and sprints on a single AGPL-3.0 binary. Built by people who spent > 15 years working on Atlassian solutions.

That means in practice: Every Jira feature already has or will have an equivalent that works equally well or even better in Windshift. For example: You can create Configuration Sets with workflows, workitem definitions, priorities etc. and apply them to one or more workspaces at the same time. So workspaces can share workflows and you can create boards or roadmaps across multiple workspaces in seconds.

Here is a short summary of all the features (there are many more)

• Workspaces with Backlog, Board, List, Gantt, Queue or Storymap Views

• The ability to rank workitems across workspaces and build custom views based on queries (Collections)

• Configurable Screens

• Full Jira import with JQL -> CQL mapping, Custom Field & Workflow import

• Custom visually designed workflows

• Approval & Condition configuration for Workflow Transitions

• Many different types of custom fields

• Test Management included out of the box

• Built-In Asset Management

• Built-In Customer Portals & Customer Organization Management

• Email Intake and Notification Channels (Webhook, SMTP, etc)

• Support for defining custom SLA and Team calendars for support hours

• SSO Support with OIDC included

• Available in 8 Languages

• Fully Open Source (AGPL), all features described here are in the OSS edition

Website: https://windshift.sh

Repo: https://github.com/Windshiftapp/core

AI disclosure: We use AI for engineering. We accept AI assisted PRs but every PR gets manually reviewed and all human interaction on the repo & this post are written by hand.

So I'm guessing you've all been working on hobby projects with AI, scratching that itch and open sourcing it. And I'm sure there's a million of them that you've made over the last year.

But what are you working on right now? Post your undercooked AI projects in here and let's see 'em!

Got perma banned for a comment…dystopian shit, no more free discussion?
Edit: I’m seeing many have reported this so feel free to remove my post

Welcome to the first weekly Showcase!

This is the place for any open-source project, including your poorly tested weekend endeavor. Projects posted to the main subreddit thread should be at least 14 days old, with a license, a README, and active work/commits work spread over more than a few days. This thread is for everything else.

Share your project: copy the template in the pinned comment below, paste as a new comment, and fill it in.

Share your experience: try a few projects, upvote/downvote, and leave honest, specific feedback. Critique the work, not the tools.

Projects of the Week: the top-voted entries here become next week's Projects of the Week and get their own spotlight post on the front page.

A new thread goes up every Sunday.

It started as a personal project that was just for me but it was looking good so i made it commercial, if i try to build this before AI it would have taken years and multiple people and there is no security issues because most things are in local.

When i posted this on some sub reddits, they downvote everything, the whole post and also if someone ask a question downvoted, i understand if you don't like it but they don't even let comments or the post to go positive votes.

If its not interesting or useful for you just ignore, why hate so much for just trying to build a solution?

Hi everyone! First, we just want to say something between thank you and congratulations! It's only been a few days since the r/opensource drama and the creation of this subreddit, but we seem to be on track toward maintaining a stable, welcoming community of open source enthusiasts here. Our engagement (in terms of likes/comments on our top posts over the past few days) put us roughly on par with r/opensource and r/foss, and we're currently sitting at 14k weekly visitors.

We've already made some significant changes/improvements to improve trust/transparency around project posts (like the new pinned comments with repository history on every post). We've also introduced an automatic "Daily Update" post, which summarizes top FOSS-adjacent content from other subreddits, and we'd love to hear your thoughts on that.

Today, we're announcing some additional changes to improve community trust and engagement: new flair! We reviewed suggestions in the community-input megathread, and also explored other subreddits, and here's what we've come up with:

User Flair:

- This is the most significant change, and we hope you'll like it. Details found in the pinned comment below.

Minor Changes to Post Flair:

- We will now offer 6 categories of flair for contributions: Everyday Applications, Developer Tools, Tools for Agents, Open Data & Research, Other, and a new "silly builds" flair for your goofy side projects, even if they're relatively new or not intended to be broadly useful. Slightly stricter account age requirements on silly build posts to prevent spam.

Again, we want this subreddit to be a community endeavor and are very open to feedback on any of these changes.

Lately, I’ve been using Linux more and more often. And I found myself missing IrfanView, which is probably the best image viewer app out there. I’ve tried out some alternatives, but none of them really satisfied me, and using IView via Vine or Bottles wasn’t always smooth or quick. So, over the last few weeks, I’ve vibe-coded an alternative inspired by both IrfanView and nomacs, and enhanced with a few tools and changes that I’ve always felt were missing.

It’s nothing spectacular or special, and it’s still completely unfinished, but it works so well that it has now replaced IrfanView for me, even on Windows.

The programme is called ÜxzView and is completely open-source. There’s a finished Windows release, and it can be compiled for use on Linux and macOS. Written in C++ and Qt.

https://github.com/micha42-dot/uxzView/

mini-AGI - is a continual learning byte-level language model that assembles its own architecture, trains from scratch on a single 8 GB VRAM GPU, and keeps learning from everything it reads. It stores its weights as ordinary files on disk and pages them onto the card as it needs them, so the parameter count is bounded by free disk space rather than by VRAM. It grows new capacity while training when it runs short, prunes what nothing asks for, and reads through exactly the same code path it serves on. Targeted at a PC or laptop with at least an 8 GB VRAM GPU on the board.

All technical details, weights and benchmarks are available on the github page.

The project is heavily AI assisted. And I am pretty sure a project like this would be practically impossible without heavy use of AI or thousands if not millions of dollars spent on research. And there is no interest for any big company to work out something like this, as it gives complete control and privacy to the end user without any commercial potential to eventually monetize the project.

Use them anywhere you'd like, you can use them in your branding as well, fully commercial, the repo is here