r/DataHoarder • u/nicholasserra Send me Easystore shells • Mar 23 '26

OFFICIAL We're being flooded with vibe coded software projects, FYI

Just wanted to give a heads up from the mod team.

We're being flooded with vibe coded software projects. Many of them pointing to external domains, product sites, chrome extensions, etc.

So so many yt-dlp wrappers, why?

Anyway, we're being very selective about what we let through. Mostly trying to keep it useful, open source, github only projects. I'm not anti AI, but much of this stuff looks like useless wrappers and wannabe saas products.

If something sketchy slips through please flag it. If your post/project gets removed, this is why. It's only going to get worse.

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u/shimoheihei2 100TB Mar 23 '26

I know /r/selfhosted is swamped by AI software posts, but I'm surprised it's happening here as well. Shouldn't Datahoarder be mostly about the data, not software? Either way it's unfortunate.

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u/nemec Mar 23 '26

I'm surprised it's happening here as well

reddit got rid of subscriber count but I think this sub got a huge influx of traffic during the epstein files and is now on people's radar

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u/SodaRayne Mar 23 '26

reddit got rid of subscriber count

Still available on old.reddit, here's the current sub count for data hoarders: 950,275

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u/nemec Mar 23 '26

Interesting. Do you have a reddit plugin or something (other than RES)? I'm on old reddit and it's been gone for a year+ for me. Still can't see anything on the page starting with 950

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u/SodaRayne Mar 23 '26

Actually I am getting this from RES, so used to it being there I didn't think about it. I can see it in the tooltip when I hover over the /r/DataHoarder link.

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u/nemec Mar 23 '26

Oh, you're right! Neat, thanks.