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r/opensource is a subreddit with 247k members. Its distinguishing qualities are that the community is huge in size, and has high activity.
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)
Popular Themes in r/opensource
#1
Solution Requests
: "Open-Source Alternative to Adobe Acrobat "
59 posts
#2
Self-Promotion
: "I Created an AI Research Assistant that actually DOES research! Feed it ANY topic, it searches the web, scrapes content, saves sources, and gives you a full research document + summary. Uses Ollama (FREE) - Just ask a question and let it work! No API costs, open source, runs locally!"
46 posts
#3
Advice Requests
: "How to write great documentation for your open-source project"
15 posts
#4
Pain & Anger
: "What happened to the joy of contributing to open-source?"
7 posts
#5
Ideas
: "Project idea: An app that records how much time you use each open-source program and allocates your monthly donations accordingly"
3 posts
#6
News
: "FreeCAD Version 1.0 Released"
2 posts
#7
Opportunities
: "Looking for contributors - Open-Source AI Frontend Developer assistant!"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/opensource
#1
Open Source
: "Why don’t “cheap” Chinese clone companies Open Source their software?"
73 posts
#2
Open Source
: "A Ruler for Windows - Open Source after 18 years!"
33 posts
#3
Opensource
: "Where can I find new Opensource projects to contribute?"
28 posts
#4
Ai
: "I Created an Ai Research Assistant that actually DOES research! Feed it ANY topic, it searches the web, scrapes content, saves sources, and gives you a full research document + summary. Uses Ollama (FREE) - Just ask a question and let it work! No API costs, open source, runs locally!"
12 posts
#5
Tool
: "Windows Free and Opensource Software - KeyTik: The All-in-One Automation Tool"
12 posts
#6
Github
: "Isn't it a little contradictory that Github, the world's most popular open-source platform, belongs to Microsoft, the company that makes billions of dollars from proprietary software and stealing the code of open-source projects for profit?"
11 posts
#7
Cli
: "I made wut – a Cli that explains your last command using an LLM"
6 posts
#8
Software
: "HTML 5 animation Software"
6 posts
#9
Security
: "I made a lightweight VPS Security and performance audit script and open-sourced it"
5 posts
#10
Typescript
: "A lightweight Typescript AI toolkit for multiple platforms"
5 posts
Member Growth in r/opensource
Daily
+95 members(0.0%)
Monthly
+3k members(1.3%)
Yearly
+39k members(18.5%)
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