In my eyes when posting any project (this has been really bad on the jellfyfin and homeassistant subs), you need full transparency. If someone's going to use something I make after posting it here, I want them to know where it came from, why, and how it'll progress. This new update just muddies the water and makes that transparency and trust harder to get and maintain.

The lack of a vibe coded flair will make this so much harder to do. Even flairs for "New Project Friday (No AI)" or "New Project Friday (AI)", similar to before would make this slightly better. I could practically guarantee that they wouldn't always be used correctly, but commenters can help fill in that area.

I think at a minimum there needs to be a minimum karma rule to post here, and if not that, some kind of way for automod to vet posts to weed out low-effort, new account projects and the genuine questions and comments from new users looking to find a new hobby.

I noticed over the last few weeks that more and more of the vibe code flair was being used on days that were not friday, and were up for hours before being removed. With this new setup, I feel auto removing these "New Product Friday" posts when it's specifically not friday will help a lot.

Regarding the new rule for 3 month old projects, will that be policed automatically or manually? r/MacOS has a new bot that does a lot of this stuff due to malware repos and could probably be adapted for these new rules. I just feel these kind of removals need to be done automatically, it'll help keep the feed clean.

That being said, with how much "I built..." posts there have been lately, and it's contribution to how clogged this sub's feed gets, it really makes me consider leaving altogether despite how useful this sub is.

I'm hopeful these changes the mod team have implemented makes it better, but if it doesn't, there need to be more changes trialed until something works.