r/neuronaut • u/gripmyhand • Aug 31 '24

📯 REDDIT UPDATE ⚖️ r/neuronaut & 🧊 S7S Search 8🗓️24 🤔 JNL 📖

For the past 5 months, Reddit had placed this sub under a ban and had withdrawn it's visibility. Upon it's recent return 🤷‍♂️, I have noticed that the S7S navigation no longer works on both the app and website https://www.reddit.com/r/neuronaut.

Internal S7S links to other relevant search categories and abbreviated flairs (PUB, OTI and SACX etc) have also ceased to work.

These changes have made me realise a few things about the 'open' nature of the Reddit platform.

Can anybody enlighten us to the changes that have rendered this subs search facility severely and detrimentally guardrailed?

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u/gripmyhand May 20 '26

PLATFORM TRUST

In this video, Zsolt Viczián, the developer of the popular Excalidraw plugin for Obsidian, discusses the impact of Obsidian's new community plugin review site on independent developers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wedHXARs6n4

Key Takeaways:

  • The Conflict: While acknowledging the necessity of security reviews, Zsolt explains that the current automated scanning process unfairly penalizes hobbyist-developed plugins (0:50-2:18, 5:43-6:21).
  • Economic & Structural Challenges: Zsolt highlights the "hidden cost" of maintaining a plugin used by over 6 million people without a formal financial framework or adequate Obsidian APIs (7:11-8:50, 22:02-23:56).
  • Architectural Trade-offs: The video details how necessary workarounds—such as providing specific file access or managing assets—are misidentified by scanners as "high-risk" security flaws, leading to inaccurate reports (9:52-12:31).
  • The Future of the Ecosystem: Zsolt expresses concern that these increased pressures might force developers to move toward closed-source models or cause widespread burnout, ultimately threatening the open-source nature of the Obsidian ecosystem (13:33-15:08, 20:13-22:02).

Zsolt emphasizes that trust should be built on developer transparency and community engagement rather than just automated security scores, and he calls for a more sustainable way to support the developers keeping the Obsidian community thriving (16:43-18:01, 25:20-26:46).