r/opensource is a subreddit with 368k members. The most common kinds of discussions are solution requests and advice requests, and the community frequently discusses open source, looking for, software, tired, and open source, and they frequently recommend/review 2fa app, budgeting software, and accounting software.
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
: "are there any open source versions, best versions out of these, and free versions up to a certain amt of tokens used"
3 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "Looking for contributors - Devlaner/devlane: Open-source Jira, Linear, Monday, ClickUp and Plane alternative."
2 posts
#3
Self-Promotion
: "Initial Public Release of Plotix (Self-hosted publish and subscribe metric dashboards, similar to Ntfy but for graphing data)"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/opensource
#1
Open Source
46 posts
#2
Looking For
26 posts
#3
Software
19 posts
#4
Tired
15 posts
#5
Open Source
: "Advice on how to get more people to know about my FOSS project for static sites?"
12 posts
#6
Struggling
12 posts
#7
Hate
9 posts
#8
Ai
: "GitHub - xalgord/xalgorix: Xalgorix - Autonomous Ai Pentesting Agents"
9 posts
#9
Code
7 posts
#10
Tool
6 posts
Products Discussed in r/opensource
2fa App
10 reviews
#1
2FAS
4.0★ from 4 reviews
#2
Aegis
4.3★ from 3 reviews
#3
Ente
4.0★ from 1 review
Budgeting Software
10 reviews
#1
GnuCash
2.5★ from 2 reviews
#2
Equonomize
4.0★ from 1 review
#3
Firefly III
5.0★ from 1 review
Accounting Software
9 reviews
#1
GnuCash
3.5★ from 2 reviews
#2
Gnomeshade
3.0★ from 1 review
#3
LedgerSMB
4.0★ from 1 review
Flair Used in r/opensource
#1
Promotional
: "firmina: a tool to make legally binding digital signatures using italian smart keys. Works with PADES and CADES signatures"
5 posts
#2
Discussion
: "China's new open-source model accelerates AI hacking threat"
1 post
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Yearly
+90k members(32.3%)
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Last updated: July 6, 2026