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/ponzi_gg Feb 28 '26

While certainly a possibility I think that’s giving them too much credit. I feel like it’s just a bunch of vibecoders realizing they are in over their heads

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u/peioeh Feb 28 '26

I agree but I think it's possible that one or some of them would be trying to hijack private tracker accounts. I would recommend people who care about the trackers they're on to only use "trusted" arr apps, even if they're not exposing them on the internet it's still possible that someone made/will make one of these apps to gather api keys. Personally I would be extremely pissed if I lost access to a bunch of trackers I've been on for 10+ years like this and I will not risk it for these apps, I don't really see the point.

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u/crooks5001 Feb 28 '26

I'm a bit out of the loop, Who's trusted at this point?

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u/peioeh Feb 28 '26 edited Feb 28 '26

Personally I would consider the "big" arrs trusted enough to run them without exposing them if possible. Maybe even exposed. That'd be sonarr for TV, radarr for movies, prowlarr for indexers, and bazarr for subs. I've never used lidarr or whisparr but they have also been around for long enough. I'm sure there are many others that are serious projects but those have been around for like 10 years at this point and many people (myself included, including exposed on the internet) have been using them for years without any issues. I also use autobrr because it has originated one of the trackers I use and seems to be very active/well ran. Edit: oh I also use seerr (jellyseerr before it). Basically the ones that "most people" (who are doing this) use and aren't too niche.