Posting in places that don't know you yet

The short version lives on the notes page. This is the longer one, written after actually doing this a few times.

Worth your time

r/youtubedl

The best of the four by a wide margin, and it is not close. People asked real questions about how the thing worked instead of guessing. They suggested features that were actually good. They reported bugs rather than assuming the whole thing was broken. It is also the only one of the four that hands out real developer flair to the actual author of a tool, which is a small thing that does a lot for a first impression. There is still the usual Reddit edge on some replies, because it is Reddit, but it never took over the thread and it never became the point. If you build anything in this space, start here.

Not worth your time

r/DataHoarder

The post was mass reported, then compared to a long abandoned tool that has not worked in years, as an insult. When that was corrected, the same claim was repeated back anyway. The post was removed. Nobody downloaded it, nobody ran it, nobody opened the repo. The verdict arrived before anyone looked.

For what it is worth, the things this community does care about are storage efficiency and archival integrity, so disk usage, format choices, and what happens to existing files on update are the things to lead with. The self-promotion rules are enforced, so read them before posting rather than after a removal. None of that saved the post.

r/Linux

"Vibe coded" was the entire review. Alongside it were several flatly false claims about what the tool did and how it was built, none of which anyone checked, and the post was removed on the strength of them.

The genuine local knowledge, if you want it: distro-specific packaging matters here in a way it does not elsewhere, and an AppImage or a Flatpak gets a very different reception than a bare binary. Real open licensing gets checked rather than glanced at. Marketing language of any kind gets noticed immediately and works against you. Again, none of that saved the post.

r/Warframe

I built a squad finder. A platform picker, a relic picker, and open slot tracking. It reads nothing out of the game and writes nothing into it. There is no client, no memory access, no account credentials, nothing that touches game data at all. It is a board for finding people to play with.

I posted it and I was banned from the subreddit. The reason given was that it looked AI made, along with claims about what AI can and cannot build that were simply not true and that nobody bothered to verify. Building something for that community is treated as the problem in itself. If you are thinking about making something for Warframe players, do not count on the subreddit for any part of it.

On the AI question

A lot of these spaces are on edge about AI right now, and the suspicion gets applied by vibe. It lands on hand-built work that happens to look "off" by whatever heuristic someone is running that day, and the harshest reactions usually come from someone reacting to a screenshot or a headline without opening the thing at all.

I am not going to hide how something was made. I use AI the way I use an editor or a linter, the code either runs or it does not, and being upfront about it is slower but it is the version that survives someone actually checking. The alternative is spending the whole thread defending the fact that you posted instead of talking about what you built.

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