theo
CDCloudflare Developers
•Created by theo on 1/9/2025 in #general-help
linking open source tools in discord
Hello Cloudflare community team. I'd love to speak with a real live person about your guidelines around linking to open-source tools related to Cloudflare. I've built some tools that help manage config with specific integration for Cloudflare/wrangler that tries to make things easier.
There's not any specific info in the server guidelines, only a mention to share things you built in the #what-i-built channel. That channel makes sense if you are showing off a project you built using Cloudflare, but no one will go looking there for tools to help solve their config problems. I'm not posting links in random places, only on very specific threads where people are having related issues dealing with config.
I'm not sure if it was totally automated or not, but I've been warned several times against doing any "promotion" and my posts have been deleted, even after the person I was replying to reacted positively.
If I were selling something, I would understand, but this is a free open-source tool, and I'm trying to make tools that make it easier to build on Cloudflare. I would think you would want to encourage this kind of project.
Where do you draw the line? If I wrote out a bunch of custom code using the open source dotenv package, would that be ok? If someone was doing database-y things and I linked to a project like Prisma, would that get removed? Is there a certain number of github stars where it becomes mainstream enough to recommend without getting warned?
I love Cloudflare and I want to build more tools for the platform's users - but this is extremely discouraging.
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