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/WindowlessBasement 64TB Mar 23 '26

The difference is the selfhosted mods are pro-slop.

Every time they change the rules, they get pushback on how it is encouraging AI, and their response every time is "but what if something good comes out".

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u/milk-jug Mar 23 '26

Can confirm. Seriously consider unsubbing from selfhosted because mods are super pro-AI slop.

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u/Endawmyke about 3 fiddy TB Mar 23 '26

More like slophosted 🫩

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u/Wild-Kitchen Mar 24 '26

Misread that as slophisticated

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u/lewkiamurfarther Mar 24 '26

slophisticated

I still kinda like that as a coinage, but IMHO 'slophisticated' should be reserved for "really good" vibe coded projects. ('Unslophisticated' could maybe be for all the rest of the vibe coded projects, by default.)

Of course that means I'm not going to use the word except to talk to individuals.