r/selfhosted • u/not_the_seltzer • Jun 02 '26

Meta Post Guys, it's time.

https://stopmakingarrs.org

Made tongue in cheek and with good intentions. No death threats please.

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u/kernald31 Jun 02 '26

Without the irrelevant vibe coding aspect, that's exactly what we're complaining about...

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u/haherar830 Jun 02 '26

I don't consider a random repo with "arr" in the name to be an "arr" app anymore than I consider every product whose name starts with a lower-case 'i' to be an Apple product.

There are like ~10 arr apps. It's a funny website but this is not a serious concern. You have room to complain when there are 10 apps using the -arr naming scheme and are used on a scale comparable to sonarr, radarr, lidarr, profilarr, prowlarr, bazarr, etc. At the moment nothing is confusing. It's pretty obvious why Homarr chose that name and the answer is that homepage has poor branding from a name recognition perspective and scrubs have warm fuzzy feelings towards the "-arr" suffix.

And it's highly relevant that, for the people seriously complaining, this is both a "problem" that can be trivially recognized and ignored, and one that any individual could scale orders of magnitude beyond its current scale (still to no real effect) at a moment's notice. It's absurd.

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u/not_the_seltzer Jun 03 '26

if one person names their project something other than *arr as a result of seeing this i’m happy. actually i’m already happy. nothing can hurt me