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r/opensource Reddit Community Guide

A subreddit for everything open source related (for this context, we go off the definition of open source here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source)

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Community overview

What is r/opensource about?

What people discuss

r/opensource is included in the Indie development section of the IntentWorth Reddit community leaderboard. Its live description and recent posts show the subjects members are discussing now, while the activity data helps you judge the pace of new conversations.

Who should read this community

Use r/opensource when its current discussions overlap with a question you can answer, an experience you can share or a topic you genuinely want to understand. Read several threads before deciding how to participate.

Latest community activity

Data updated 2026-08-09

5

Posts in 24h

1

Median comments

5

Active authors

Needs 2 days

Member change

Community rules

These are the currently published rules. Moderators and AutoModerator may enforce additional account-age, karma, flair or posting requirements that are not publicly listed.

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Be Respectful

This shouldn't need to be a rule, but this is the internet. People can unnecessarily be jerks sometimes. We'd much appreciate it if this wasn't a place where that happens. Please refrain from talking down to people, being overly patronizing, name-calling, personal insults, etc. **Hate speech of any kind will not** be tolerated. For a refresher, please see Reddit's entry on [Reddiquette](https://www.reddit.com/wiki/reddiquette) as a general guideline.

Applies to: allRemoval reason: Reddiquette
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No Spam or Excessive Self-Promotion

Reddit has clear rules about [self promotion](https://reddit.com/wiki/selfpromotion). We encourage you to be proud of/promote your work to a degree, but we also don't want users using this sub as a link farm to promote their project/website/YouTube channel. Reddit recommends that <10% of your posts promote your content. We're a *little* more forgiving, but don't take advantage of it. *"It's perfectly fine to be a redditor with a website, it's not okay to be a website with a reddit account."*

Applies to: allRemoval reason: Spam / Self Promotion
3

Memes & Low-Effort Posts

This sub is a place for discussion and news regarding the world of open source projects. There are literally hundreds of other subs dedicated to memes and shitposting. Please keep those kinds of posts in those subs. All AI-generated content is low-effort and ban worthy.

Applies to: allRemoval reason: AI-Slop / Meme / Low-Effort
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Be On-Topic

Posts should be of direct relevance to the open source community. Off-topic posts will be removed. Code or repositories linked to MUST have a LICENSE file that MUST be an OSI listed Open Source license: https://opensource.org/licenses

Applies to: allRemoval reason: Off-Topic / Not Open Source
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No Sensationalized Titles

If your post is a link to an article, please keep your post title as close to, if not the same as, the linked article's title. You're more than welcome to post a comment in the thread that states your opinion of said article.

Applies to: linkRemoval reason: Sensationalized Title
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No Drive-By Posting / Karma Farming

Karma farm accounts are not going to be welcome here, regardless of the validity of the posted content. Drive-by posts from accounts where there is obviously no intention of engaging in the following discussion may be removed.

Applies to: linkRemoval reason: Karma Farm / Drive-by
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No Link Aggregations

If there's an article within an aggregation of links/stories or a newsletter, link to the actual story or article.

Applies to: allRemoval reason: No Link Aggregations
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Use Correct Flairs

[Flairs](https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/xrw5s9/new_postflairs/) should reflect the nature of the post. `Promotional` is when you are sharing a project, yours or otherwise. `Alternatives` is when you are soliciting for suggestions of OSS that fulfills a need. `Discussion` is for asking general questions when `Promotional` or `Alternatives` does not apply. `Community` is for something that will or has happened when `Promotional` does not apply.

Applies to: linkRemoval reason: Needs different flair

Top recent discussions

These recently collected r/opensource discussions are ordered by score and comment activity. Open a thread on Reddit to read the full context and current replies.

My first real open-source contribution got merged today

728 points · 60 comments

company (probably) is mad I forked an old version of their app and worked on it

544 points · 55 comments

AI-Policy

251 points · 158 comments

I spent 4 years building an offline-first writing app after a web app ate my manuscript

189 points · 35 comments

Slaptop returns to macOS after 21 years! (Free, Open Source)

100 points · 14 comments

Peek - Open social media links without distraction

72 points · 16 comments

GitHub - Mte90/linus-torvalds-skill: Distilled Code Reviewer skills from 32k~ email from the kernel newsletter

60 points · 13 comments

Smart TV Operating Systems

50 points · 25 comments

I created an open-source Stream Deck

46 points · 19 comments

I built Network Doctor, an open-source terminal app that shows where your connection breaks

38 points · 8 comments

How this community activity is measured

IntentWorth refreshes public r/opensource data on a fixed schedule. The figures are descriptive measurements, not estimates of reach or recommendations to promote.

Posts in the latest 24 hours

We count collected submissions whose public creation time falls inside the latest rolling 24-hour window.

Median comments

The median shows a typical recent discussion and is less distorted by a single unusually popular thread than an average.

Daily member change

We compare two valid daily subscriber snapshots. Until an earlier snapshot exists, the page reports that more history is needed.

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