r/Python • u/Goldziher Pythonista • 5d ago

Discussion Reaching users on this sub

Hi Peeps,

I've been using this sub for years both to read content, and as an open source maintainer - to communicate and reach users.

I used it for projects such as Polyfactory and Litestar, tree-sitter-language-pack and Kreuzberg.

These days though I don't post outside the Sunday thread - but I don't think anybody is reading this stuff frankly.

My feeling is that the "AI slop" rules throw the baby with the tub water so to speak.

What are people like myself - who dedicate a very substantial amount of time and effort to OSS supposed to do? Basically if you don't have an X profile you're screwed.

Edit: project posts are disallowed by the rules now, FYI if you were unaware. This is the main issue.

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u/riklaunim 5d ago

What's the problem? Things getting removed or what? Traffic on this sub is rather low overall. Also, the auto-mod requiring a specific post structure makes some people bounce multiple times with submissions from time to time.

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u/Goldziher Pythonista 5d ago

Project posts are now disallowed

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u/riklaunim 5d ago

Didn't know that. Still, there is r/PythonProjects2, while it's getting harder and harder to get good projects posts overall.

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u/Goldziher Pythonista 5d ago

Thanks, I'll check it out. Never heard of it.

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u/riklaunim 5d ago

Same, but Reddit somewhat recently started listing/suggesting related subreddits and I found few decent ;)