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mudler's LocalAI [bot]
6e7c0a4df8 blog, website: edit out the AI writing tells readers called out on HN (#11324)
* blog: rewrite the engines post without the AI tells

The HN thread on this post (item 49125065) spent most of its comments on the
writing rather than the engines. Readers quoted specific lines back as tells.
This is the same post with the same numbers, edited against the updated
no-ai-slop skill.

Every figure, table and link is unchanged, except that "27% of the memory"
is now the underlying 363 MB against 1328 MB from the table.

Two substantive framing fixes, both from the reply draft in
hn-reply-engines-post.md:

- vllm.cpp is no longer implied to be a speed win. The table is a tie, the
  result is the install size, and the post now says so before a reader has to
  work it out and post about it.
- Added one line on the language mix. Readers took the C++/Python/Go tree as
  incoherence rather than as a Go core with per-ecosystem backends.

Cut throughout: the ledger metaphor ("what those ports buy", "not paid for in
throughput"), unearned framing ("the honest reading is", "has nothing to do
with"), the shape summary ("that is the general shape of these wins"),
confident deference ("people who are better at those models than we are"),
self-grading numbers ("a good result for a 66 MiB binary"), verbless
comparisons, three of the four exactness idioms, and the aphoristic headings
and verdicts. The double-tricolon summary is one plain clause now.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* blog, website: same anti-slop sweep over the rest of the site

One-by-one pass over the other four posts and the site templates, with the
same rules used on the engines post. All figures, tables, links and PR
numbers are unchanged everywhere; the edits are to prose only.

apex-moe-quantization: ledger metaphors were the main issue, eight uses of
buy/cost/pay/spend for things that are not money. Also "the honest reading
is", "that is the comparison that matters", and two section-ending aphorisms
("Size is a speed knob as much as a memory knob", "Q6_K is the ceiling worth
paying for").

localai-since-march-2023: light touch, this one already reads like a person.
Removed "the curve is not the point", a "not the feature list, but the four
decisions" contrast, and two "X is what made / is the piece that" forms.

parakeet-cpp-asr-on-cpu: six exactness idioms across one post, "byte for
byte" twice, "character for character" twice, "byte-identical" twice and
"bit-identical" once, including in the title. Down to one, kept where the
precision is load-bearing. Also the "what end-of-utterance detection buys
you" heading and the "we say so rather than averaging it away" flex.

what-landed-in-localai-4-8: no changes. It is dense, flat and ends every
section on a PR number or a plain fact, which is the shape the other posts
should look like.

Site templates: "Most backends wrap somebody else's engine. These do not."
was the same contrast the engines post opened with. Also "Not a degraded mode
that technically runs", "A port only ships once it matches the original",
"Speed is the part we then go and win ... not a marketing run", and the last
"byte for byte" on the landing page.

Hugo builds clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* website: it is eighteen engines, not nineteen

Three places said nineteen: the /engines/ page description, the JUL 2026
timeline entry on the landing page, and the header comment in
data/engines.yaml.

Eighteen is right, confirmed two ways. The "Backends built by us" table in
the README has exactly 18 rows, and data/engines.yaml has 19 entries of which
one is apex-quant, which is a quantization recipe rather than an engine. The
two lists otherwise match name for name.

The yaml comment is the likely origin: it read "the nineteen native engines
the LocalAI team wrote, and the one quantization recipe that feeds them",
which counts apex-quant twice.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-03 23:03:25 +02:00
Ettore Di Giacinto
4b3978dcba chore(website): derive the counters from data, refresh them weekly
The star, fork, contributor and release counts were typed into the templates
by hand, so they only moved when somebody remembered. They had already
drifted: stars read 48,042 against 48,067, forks 4,314 against 4,320, and
contributors 224 against 225.

They move to website/data/stats.yaml, which .github/ci/refresh-site-counters.sh
rewrites from the GitHub API, run weekly by a new workflow. The contributors
and releases endpoints never report a total, so the script asks for one item
per page and reads the count out of the Link header. It refuses to write a
zero or a non-number, which is what a rate-limited or failed call looks like,
and the workflow commits only when a number actually moved. The Discord count
has no API behind it, so the script reads the existing value back and carries
it through.

The engine count was wrong in a second way. The hero said 18, the section
heading said "Eighteen engines", the timeline said "Nineteen engines of our
own", and the /engines/ page derived 19 from the data file. All of them now
derive from that same file, so they cannot disagree again.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5[1m]
2026-07-31 21:23:54 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto
e6b235baf2 fix(website): wrap the timeline, run integrations as a reel, fix blog cards
The timeline set six 15rem columns in a flex row with overflow-x:auto, which
needs 90rem and so scrolled sideways on any normal laptop. It is a wrapping
grid now, and the rule that carries the dots moves from the container onto
each item so a wrapped row still gets a line above it. Column gap is zero and
the items carry their own right padding, so the rule stays continuous.

Integrations move from a card grid to a reel. Any single integration is a weak
signal and the whole moving line is the strong one, so the count is doing the
argument. It pauses on hover and on keyboard focus, since the names are links.
The list grows from 8 to 26: Open WebUI, Dify, LibreChat, RAGFlow, Continue,
big-AGI, Nextcloud, Frigate, promptfoo, Mods, TypingMind, baibot, k8sgpt-
operator and others. Each was admitted only after opening that project's own
repository or docs and reading the line that names LocalAI. The ones that
failed that test are listed in the data file so nobody re-adds them.

The blog cards were hand-written, which is how one of them came to advertise
"Porting vLLM to C++", a post that does not exist, and how all three linked to
the blog index instead of an article. They range over the posts now.

The section intro used the "a changelog tells you what moved, these posts show
you what it does" shape, which is the standard machine-written antithesis. It
states what the posts contain instead, including the perplexity regression
that APEX costs, because publishing the price is the actual claim.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5[1m]
2026-07-31 14:55:16 +00:00
Ettore Di Giacinto
0bedc75921 fix(website): rewrite the ecosystem band, drop two false coverage links
The band led with three sentences of hedging and printed a commit count
next to each employer, so a one-commit entry beside a large name read as
weakness rather than as the modest, true claim it was. It now opens on the
contributor count, sets the employers as a sentence instead of a pill wall,
and keeps the caveat to one line. The counts stay in ecosystem.yaml, since
they are the provenance for the list and anyone re-checking it needs them.

Two "coverage" cards were not about this project. The modelslab.com piece
reviews Frikallo/parakeet.cpp, an unrelated project of the same name, and
the snailtext.app benchmark measures Parakeet through ONNX Runtime without
mentioning LocalAI at all. Both are removed, along with the contributor
card that duplicated the band's opening line.

Press was four posts from one vendor, which read as the whole of the
coverage rather than one enthusiastic outlet. SUSE collapses to a single
series entry, and Pulumi, Semaphore and Spectro Cloud join it. Each was
opened and checked against the project before being added. K8sGPT and
LlamaIndex join the integrations; both document LocalAI as a backend.

The quotes move above the lists so the section opens on its strongest
line, which is somebody else's. The hero gains a GitHub call to action,
the APEX collection link was returning 404 and is corrected, and the
footer no longer describes the site as a design mock.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5[1m]
2026-07-31 14:24:26 +00:00
mudler's LocalAI [bot]
daab94134c feat(website): add an ecosystem band, and an ADOPTERS file to back it (#11248)
Adds the "who turns up around this project" section, split into three lists
because the evidence behind each one is a different strength and collapsing
them into a single logo wall would overclaim.

  Contributors   21 companies whose engineers have commits here. Evidence is
                 the commit history plus the employer on that person's public
                 GitHub profile, so it is a claim about the person. Commit
                 counts are shown next to each name, including the ones that
                 are a single patch, because hiding that would be the whole
                 problem.
  Integrations   six projects that reference LocalAI in their own repository
                 or documentation, which anyone can verify without asking us.
  Press          four SUSE Communities articles about running LocalAI.

Names are set in type rather than fetched as logos. A logo reads as
endorsement, and a one-line typo fix from somebody who happens to work at a
large company does not support that, quite apart from what their trademark
policy says about it.

ADOPTERS.md is the mechanism for the stronger claim. An organisation that
wants to be listed as a user opens a pull request adding itself, which is both
the evidence and the permission, and is publicly auditable afterwards. The
file says plainly what the website does and does not claim, so the next person
to ask "can we add some big names" has the answer in the repository.


Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [Bash] [Edit] [Write] [WebSearch]

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-07-31 09:18:51 +02:00
mudler's LocalAI [bot]
94d5affcea feat(website): split the site, move docs to /docs, add a landing page (#11243)
* feat(website): split the site, move docs to /docs, add a landing page

The Hugo docs site has always been localai.io itself, which left nowhere to
explain what LocalAI is or show what the team builds. This adds a separate
marketing site at the root and moves the documentation under /docs/.

Docs:
  The existing site keeps its content tree and its Relearn theme, and now
  builds with baseURL <root>/docs/. Its _index.md, which held a hand written
  landing page, becomes a real documentation home.

  Every previously published URL keeps working. GitHub Pages has no server
  side rewrites, so .github/ci/gen-redirects.sh walks the built docs output
  and leaves a meta refresh plus a canonical link at each old root path. It
  covers bare .html files too, which is what keeps /gallery.html alive, and
  it never overwrites a path the marketing site already owns.

Website:
  A second Hugo site under website/ with its own layouts and no external
  theme, so the marketing side does not have to fight Relearn's home rooted
  menu and asset pipeline. CI builds both and merges them into one Pages
  artifact.

  The design is derived from the project logo rather than invented: the navy
  of the triangle, the cyan of the llama, the purple of the speed bars. Those
  offset bars became the motion signature. The background renders a real
  depth-anything.cpp depth map as contour lines and switches to a
  locate-anything.cpp style detection overlay over the engines section.

  Also included: an /engines/ index driven entirely by data/engines.yaml, a
  /blog/ section with five posts written from the release notes and the
  engine benchmark suites, install.sh and a Kubernetes manifest since the
  site advertises both, and a rule in .agents/ that release preparation now
  includes a blog post and demo clips.

Every figure on the site is derived from the repository or the GitHub API,
not from memory. Correcting them against their sources found one error in
README.md: voxtral-tts.c is text to speech, not speech to text.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [Bash] [Edit] [Write] [Agent]

* feat(website): add a star history chart, rewrite the history post in first person

The history post read like a changelog written by a committee. It is now in
Ettore's voice, first person, with the admissions left in.

The numbers paragraph in particular read like a directory listing. It now says
what the figures mean rather than which file they came from.

Adds an interactive star history chart, built from the GitHub stargazers API
rather than embedded from a third party, so the page makes no external request
and cannot break when someone else's service is down. The four releases the
post is organised around are marked on the curve, and the labels stack into
rows because three of them land within two months of each other.

The API stops paginating at 40,000 items, so the curve is measured up to
December 2025 and the segment from there to today's total is drawn dashed,
labelled as an estimate in the caption and in the tooltip. It is a straight
line between two known points, and the chart says so rather than implying it
is data.

Also drops "marketing site" from the README heading and everywhere else it
appeared, and calls it the main site instead.

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [Bash] [Edit] [Write]

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Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Co-authored-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-07-31 09:00:56 +02:00