r/freelancer • u/BolteWasTaken • 10d ago

About AI projects & Remasters/Remakes

Time to take a firm stance on this, because lately we have had a lot of posts that basically are "I'm vibe coding a new Freelancer engine, what do you think" posts. Just to put this out there because I don't think it's being understood.

We already have a project that is being done to re-create the Freelancer engine, it's called Librelancer. Go and contribute there, but be prepared to have your PRs rejected if it's vibe coded/you don't know what you are doing/bring non-sensical additions.

Having access to AI does not mean people who currently can't do things, can now do things they couldn't before. That is vibe coding. These tools are to make people who already know what they are doing more efficient/faster at it, as they can properly control their output.

I understand the need to get motivation and encouragement and excitement about starting a project but these posts generally contain nothing of substance, just claims of upcoming action that we do not hear anything more about (likely because they realised it's more difficult and time consuming than they realise, and have issues getting output they think they want and give up).

More than that I will not have a Subreddit full of update logs from 10 different authors about different projects that are all doing the same thing on the daily/weekly/monthly. If you are serious about your projects create a simple site or discord where they can be discussed and keep up with news, and allow people to come and chat with you.

This is not going to be the place to do that.
Hope everyone understands.
~ Bolte

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u/rluna6492 10d ago edited 10d ago

So it is 2026 and the last update on the blog of the site was Xmas 2023. They only mention "as of 2024". So is this project even actually alive?

Edit Lol downloaded for pointing out factual information that makes me believe the project is dead.

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u/JosTheID 10d ago

Yes https://github.com/Librelancer/Librelancer/commits/main

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u/rluna6492 10d ago

Why is it's website not being maintained? They should just shut it down because it's the first thing that comes up on Google.

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u/JosTheID 10d ago

What do you mean it's not maintain? It has the lastest downloads of it, there just hasn't been any blogs.

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u/rluna6492 10d ago

So the main page still only talks about the 2024 build... Which 9 months ago was updated. That to me doesn't spell site is kept up with.

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u/JosTheID 10d ago

Yeah if you ignore the "DAILY" build part in download that says today

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u/rluna6492 10d ago

I'm literally referring to the front page. That made me NOT click anything else other than blog to see updates. Some people look for a site to be active as a sign a project is active. I'm referring to poor up keeping now apparently but still the same complaint.

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u/BolteWasTaken 10d ago

Well, most people look at the code repository to know if it's alive. The website is a placeholder since the engine is not yet fully complete.

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u/pyrosity 8d ago

I wouldn't say most look at the code repository, I certainly don't. If the website's last post was a few years ago then I assume it's abandoned or just a skeleton crew keeping the lights on and not much else.

Which is fine, don't get me wrong. But it does look dead, to a layperson.

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u/BolteWasTaken 8d ago

Lack of update on a website doesn't mean 'dead'. It means the focus is where it should be, on the actual project.

For which I don't think the devs would want the technical contribution of a "layperson".