After reading both the accusations and the dev response I don’t know who to believe. I love BookLore and have not encountered any issues, so I guess I’ll stick with it for now.
Comment on Self-Host Weekly (13 March 2026)
eodur@piefed.social 3 days ago
The BookLore thing is really disappointing. I hope we see a quality fork in the near future.
red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
irmadlad@lemmy.world 3 days ago
BookLore
I have seriously considered spinning up Booklore. Great looking UI. Oh well.
EarMaster@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I’d rather have a happy and productive maintainer than a burnout and an orphaned project. Either way forks can be made at any point - so if you don’t like the use of AI just fork it or don’t update any more and stay happy. No need for either of you to get mad at each other.
iamthetot@piefed.ca 3 days ago
They said they were disappointed, not mad.
tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 3 days ago
I’m not sure a fork makes sense given the dev merged way too much nonsense already. Maybe from a point in time before it started?
I’ve been looking to check out Booklore over some annoyances I have with CWA but IDK anymore.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Don’t let perfect stop you from achieving good.
It’s not radioactive waste, it’s code. You can read it, write it, change it. Just like any legacy codebase it’s full of shit, and maintaining means addressing the specific issues.
Zos_Kia@jlai.lu 2 days ago
This whole debacle is showing that people fundamentally misunderstand how code works. They are trying to declare code good or code bad because of some silly heuristics like ai/not-ai, as if it wasn’t literal lines of text which you can read before you form an opinion and make a fool of yourself.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Good code has always been about simplicity, taste, and understanding.
If a human provides understanding and taste, they can elevate AI code to be good.
Likewise if an AI isn’t well guided it won’t understand, has no taste, and will generate overly complex code. AKA Slop.
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Just read through some of the BookLore stuff and that was a wild ride.
bobslaede@feddit.dk 3 days ago
Yeah… I will not be updating my instance for a while. Will probably start looking for something else.
Wild ride…