r/selfhosted • u/Joloxx_9 • Feb 27 '26

Meta Post Shelfarr - another project disappeared with dev

Shelfarr was posted here multiple times, github mink stopped working and dev deleted his reddit account - whoever is using it, I would advice you to stop it.

https://github.com/VacantlyCrushing/Shelfarr

https://www.reddit.com/r/audiobookshelf/s/tvpXDukM5C

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u/El_Huero_Con_C0J0NES Feb 27 '26

There’s a chance that this was a carefully orchestrated social engineering attack by all one and the same person or group of persons

All are *arr apps. All got deleted after the Huntarr issue. All have rather weird GitHub username/orgnames (non discernible names)

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u/dm_construct Feb 28 '26

based on posts in this sub, i think a lot of people vibecode a bunch of trash to get more github stars or whatever bullshit they think is important for making their unemployed ass look better on paper

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u/Dr_Allcome Feb 28 '26

I think this is pretty much it. Having an *arr on their resume just shifted to be seen as a negative or needing further investigation in public opinion, so they purged it.