All ElfHosted users have an instance of FileBrowser for managing config files, symlinks, and storage. Today we're switching from the original FileBrowser (v2.23) to the Quantum fork (v1.2.2), a ground-up rewrite with major improvements across the board.

Your FileBrowser upgrade will roll out in the next #elf-glowup for your region.

Enjoy!

What's new at a glance

• Instant search — indexed, sub-second search across all your files
• Built-in tools — find/delete broken symlinks, analyze disk usage, detect duplicate files
• Editor linting — YAML and JSON syntax validation as you type, so you catch errors before your app does
• Multi-source browsing — config, logs, backup, symlinks, and mounts each appear as separate sources in the sidebar with usage stats
• Symlink support — browse symlinked volumes seamlessly, with resolved file sizes
• Modern UI — dark mode by default, Solarized editor theme, cleaner layou

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A bundled NNTP account is now included free on every ElfHosted subscription which supports UseNet!

This includes:

• AIOStreams
• Usenet Streamer
• Usenet Ultimate
• MediaFusion (yes, v5 supports Usenet!)
• StremThru (latest version introduces the "Newz" addon)
• Plex / Emby / Jellyfin stacks with NzbDav
• The big 'ol Stremio Addons Bundle

Since not all users want or need another NNTP provider, we've made the provisioning "lazy", meaning you activate own bundled account if you want it.

Go here to activate your bundled NNTP account (or click below)

How it works

After careful analysis of our unique usage patterns, we've modeled up 4 tiers of NNTP account, using combination of throughput and daily usage to manage costs.

Here's how it works:

• 4K: Default, 150Mbps throughput, with 150GB daily cap (enough for one chunky 4K movie / day).
• 2x4K: Automatically paired with the applicable booster, limited to 256Mbps throughput with 256GB/day usage.
• 4x4K: Automatically paired with the applicable booster, limited to 512Mbps throughput with 512GB/day usage.
• 8x8K: Automatically paired with the applicable booster, limited to 1Gbps throughput with 1TB/day usage.

After hitting a daily usage cap, the account continues to work, but speeds are reduced to 50Mbps, so that lightweight management / streaming is still possible while waiting for the daily cap reset.

The basic 4K tier only works within the ElfHosted environment, but the larger plans will also work with Stremio's native NNTP support, currently on desktops only and in beta on Android TVs (stream directly from the provider instead of via ElfHosted infra).

Terms of Use

As with all ElfHosted services, our Acceptable Use Policy and Terms Of Service apply.

Enjoy!

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ElfHosted were never at risk from this particular vulnerability (our Huntarr and other Arr apps are protected behind ElfHosted SSO Auth), but the end result is that it seems that Huntarr will no longer be developed / maintained.

Given the unfortunate the way the situation has played out has left, we've decided that the best course of action to support our users is to revert to an older, simpler version of Huntarr, which we've forked, "claudited", and named "Newtarr" (coincidentally, my cat went to the vet today for "the procedure", and now bears the "cone of shame").

Newtarr will replace Huntarr on your next glowup. It's Huntarr in all but name and color scheme, so there's nothing new, other than a few bugfixes, and the removal of features we didn't use anyway. You will notice that you'll get a standard, conservative hunting config by default, but you're free to ramp up its aggressiveness as you see fit. Unlike public indexers, our internal indexers (ElfZyclops, ElfBitmagnet, and ElfZyclops) don't have or need any rate-limits.

If you're interested in the Newtarr fork technically, you can find it at https://github.com/elfhosted/newtarr, and a full security audit of the fork's codebase at https://github.com/elfhosted/newtarr/blob/main/SECURITY-AUDIT.md

Note for non-ElfHosted users

The ghcr.io/elfhosted/newtarr:rolling image is public and available for general use, but without any expectation of ongoing support or development. If somebody else wants to step up and maintain the fork, we'd be happy to help curate / steward it. PRs will be likely be accepted if they're true to the original function and easy to understand and merge

Reminder to be kind

The Huntarr dev posted publicly in their Discord about some serious, life-altering personal circumstances in Dec 2025. I'm not comfortable re-sharing these post even though they were public, but it's clearly established that they were / are going through "some stuff". Their reaction to the current situation is unfortunate, but please be kind and remember that they're a fellow human with feelings and a real life and family. Let them go in peace.

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There's an upstream release announcement with full details, but here's what you need to know from an ElfHosted perspective - we're going to performing a staggered migration of users from Overseerr/Jellyseerr to Seerr during Feb, which will go like this...

If you've got a subscription including either Overseerr or Jellyseerr, the next time your subscription refreshes (i.e., some time in the next month), you'll now also have a Seerr instance. If the FOMO is too powerful, you can force this refresh by cancelling and then immediately reactivating your subscription (no data loss).

Upon first start, Seerr will perform an automatic migration of your config from Overseerr/Jellyseerr, but it won't remove the old data, so from this point on you'll have your original, and Seerr running in parallel.

When you're happy with Seerr, use ElfBot to perform a reset on Overseerr/Jellyseerr, and then just ignore it until we decommission it.

Once all users have had an opportunity to migrate their 'seers over to Seerr (by the end of March 2026), we'll remove the original Jellyseerr/Overseerrs and rock on into the single-app future!

Note that if you've previously subscribed to a custom domain name addon for your Overseerr/Jellyseerr, this won't migrate across - you'll need to cancel it, and grab a new custom domain for Seerr, independently.

As usual, drop us an #elf-help ticket if you need a hand!

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It's taken a bit of rearchitecting, but we now have a shared internal FlareSolverr instance per datacenter, rather than individual, bundled FlareSolverrs, per-tenant.

If you've currently configured your Prowlarr/Jackett for the (non-working) Flaresolverr instance you had bundled, you'll need to reconfigure them. The Jackett/Prowlarr configs are quite specific, so we've documented the setup carefully in our FlareSolverr docs.

Happy solving!

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In an attempt to alleviate this peak-slowdown issue for some EU users, we've established a second datacenter in Hetzner's less-popular-but-still-well-connected datacenter in Helsinki, Finland, named "elfhosted.haus", to represent a warm, inviting wood cabin in the snow.

Elfhosted.haus is live now, and a few users have already migrated to it, but be aware that there may be teething issues as we bring on load.

To find out whether you're a good candidate for an elfhosted.haus migration, visit https://speed.elfhosted.com - the speed test will try to auto-pick your closest datacenter to test, but you could test them all (especially at peak time), and make a decision about which one suits you best. The datacenter you're currently on is the one whose URL matches your apps URL, with all users defaulting to elfhosted.com in Germany.

Remember to follow the instructions about backups and environment variables before migrating, and drop us an #elf-help ticket in Discord if you're unsure or need more information!

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Thanks to some excellent work from g0ldyy, Comet now supports CometNet — a peer-to-peer network that allows participating Comet instances (public and private) to securely exchange scraped hashes. The design supports encryption, anonymity, trust pools, and reputation, allowing instances to collaborate without blindly trusting one another, and avoiding unnecessary and wasteful duplication of scraping efforts.

We’ve brought up an early CometNet-connected instance at https://cometnet.elfhosted.com

This runs as a separate ElfHosted Comet instance, specifically so we can evaluate CometNet safely without affecting the reliability of the main service.

What this means for you

More search results on the public instance! (soon to be private instances too). Streams discovered on the ElfHosted CometNet instance contribute to the wider CometNet pool, and results found by other trusted CometNet participants can be used to satisfy searches on our side. In practice, that means broader coverage and more potential stream matches.

Right now, ElfHosted Comet and ElfHosted CometNet remain independent. CometNet is still beta and evolving, and we don’t want experimental behavior to impact the stability of https://comet.elfhosted.com.

There’s also a practical safety angle here: ingesting third-party scrape data introduces the possibility of cache poisoning by malicious actors. Keeping CometNet isolated means we can reset or rebuild its database if needed, without touching the primary Comet instance.

If you’re comfortable with bleeding-edge features and want to help shape where this goes, feel free to try the CometNet instance and kick the tyres.

Instance operators and self-hosters who want to participate at a deeper level can reach out for access to the ElfHosted trust pool.

More details on how CometNet works under the hood are available at https://github.com/g0ldyy/comet/tree/main/docs/cometnet

Happy testing!

(disclosure: This is an AI-refactored rewording of the Reddit announcement, since I didn't want to just copy/paste it!)

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While this is still fairly cutting-edge territory, NNTP support already works well, allowing users to bring their own providers and indexers, rather than being locked into a single (debrid-like) service. Even the Stremio devs seem to agree, with recent client updates adding native NNTP support on desktop.

Here in the ElfLab, we’ve been poking, prodding, and generally waving our wands at cutting-edge, alpha-software teething problems. As part of that work, we’ve been chatting with a well-established Usenet infrastructure provider about whether it might make sense to bundle NNTP connectivity alongside NzbDav for our users.

Because this kind of usage is still pretty new, neither side wants to guess wildly when it comes to billing and capacity planning. So, in a display of admirable wizardly foresight , the provider has offered us a two-month proof-of-concept period. This lets us observe real-world usage patterns and figure out what a sustainable long-term arrangement might look like.

ElfHosted provides hosted open-source software and infrastructure. We do not host or provide content. Users remain responsible for how applications are configured and used, including compliance with applicable laws. NNTP access is bundled for technical validation and PoC purposes.

What this means for NzbDav users

During the proof-of-concept period, NzbDav users may optionally configure an additional NNTP provider endpoint that’s been made internally available specifically for evaluation and integration testing. This endpoint is available at no extra cost until February 2026, as follows:

• Hostname: news.elfhosted.com
• Port: 563 (SSL)
• Username: elfie
• Password: elfie
• Connections: 100

(New users will have this pre-configured in NzbDav)

You’re free to use this endpoint on its own or alongside other providers already supported by NzbDav. As always, you’re in control of your configuration — mix, match, experiment!

We’re also making available an internal Newznab-compatible cache for testing purposes. This surfaces metadata based on health checks and availability signals, helping with technical validation rather than content discovery. Think of it as a crystal ball for infrastructure health, not necessarily a treasure map.

You can search the cache using the NewzNab API at http://elfhosted-internal.zyclops in tools like UsenetStreamer, AIOStreams, or Prowlarr. The API will respond to any API key, but if you set it to a comma-separated list of provider hostnames (i.e. "news.elfhosted.com"), the cache will respond with only known-healthy and validated results for those providers/backbones.

And after February 2026?

Once the PoC wraps up, we’ll sit down with the provider and review what we’ve learned. From there, we’ll decide whether a longer-term arrangement makes sense, and if so, how it might be packaged and priced.

At this stage, nothing is set in stone (or rune). We’d love to hear your feedback though your insights help guide where the next portal opens!

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Over the past few weeks brave beta-testers have been trialing our "new auth", and it seems like every bug which can be found, has now been found, so we're moving onto mass-adoption!

In the next glowup window for your region, your stack will be migrated to the new auth layer - this will mean that all currently logged in sessions will be invalidated, and the first time you load your dashboard / protected apps again, you'll be prompted to log in with your store account. Depending on browsers / caching, it may take a while for this change to take effect for you, but you can force it with a shift-refresh (on a desktop browser), or by clearing the elfhosted-related cookies from your browser.

If you have login problems after the next glowup, do the following:

• Reproduce the issue in a private browser window (ensuring no stale cookies/sessions are causing the problem)
• If the fault is reproducible in a private browser window, then raise an #elf-help ticket in Discord - you may have discovered a new bug!

Here's to no more stale cookies!

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During July, we celebrated our second birthday by bringing our 3^rd datacenter (elfhosted.party) online, on the US East coast! We now give back 20% credit to subscribers, have a "grown up" UI for ElfBot (no more CLI for ENV vars!), and provide doubling the streaming limits for all the Stremio addons (4K) out-of-the-box.

Here's summary of some of the user-facing changes announced this month in the blog...

Retrospective

ElfBot rocks your world

Since inception, we've had our trusty little CLI tool "ElfBot" to help restart apps, set environment variables, and perform basic admin.

It's been a little hard to use, especially on mobile, so for our second birthday, we commissioned a huge upgrade..

.. meet ElfBot (UI)!

(More details in this blog post)

ElfPoints gets you 20% credit back

To reward long-term Elfies, we've hatched a reward scheme, "ElfPoints". You can read more details here, but in short, we give you 20% credit back on your subscription renewals, which you can use to "pimp your stack" by adding other apps. The bigger your bundle, the more ElfPoints you get to spend on toys.

As a thank you to the Elfies who've been with us the longest, we retroactively applied these credits to any renewals during 2025, so if you're an OG Elfie, you may have a nice little stash waiting for you to play with!

(More details in this blog post)

You can also earn more ElfPoints with promotional activities, like reviews, referrals, and having a subscription-versarry!

Discord gets exclusive

Wanting to further protect the privacy of our users, and to better reflect the premium access that our subscribers get, we've made our Discord channels more exclusive.

While non-subscribers ("muggles" ?) still have access to our public (read-only) channels for status updates, help tickets and so forth, we've kept the community / app-specific channels for active subscribers only.

Link your Discord account to your ElfHosted subscription for access to the community channels, and enjoy some of the extra benefits in our Discord server!

(More details in this blog post)

Stremio Addons get 4K proxying

Our proxy-capable Stremio addons got a boost from their default 64kbps (HD) limit, up to 150Mbps, enough for a comfortable 4K stream, or 2 HD streams.

Boosting is still possible for users who need moooar speed, and all existing boosters also got doubled.

(More details in this blog post)

Cleanarr replaces Declutarr

Some users were using Declutarr, a CLI-based tool for cleaning out Aarr queues, retrying failed / stalled downloads, etc. Users reported issues with Declutarr's results, and debugging it via a web-based CLI terminal was complex.

Decluttarr has been "decluttered" now, and replaced with a shiny new alternative, Cleanuparr, whose developer is Elf-illiated

(More details in this blog post)

Plex gets auto-trash back (if you want)

Now that Plex (and Jellyfin / Emby) are able to automatically restart themselves and pause to wait for your debrid storage to mount, it's less likely that an storage event will cause Plex to auto-empty your library.

Several users requested auto-trash-emptying in their Plex stacks, and since this is now low-risk, we've made the auto-trash feature optional again. Set it or don't set it, it's up to you!

(More details in this blog post)

Mooar Apps

Wger

An antitheses to the traditional couch-potato apps, Wger was added at user request - it's a server with a web UI and mobile app, to track your health and fitness. Wger crowd-sources exercises and dietary info, and helps you keep track of your progress over time.

See Wger in the store!

Coming up

US East Coast DC redundancy (Sept 2025)

While some hardware is running in our East Coast DC (.elfhosted.party), it's still not as resilient and scalable as we'd like. The remaining hardware is being (re)assembled and deployed during Aug/Sep 2025, ensuring we have lots of capacity for the holiday season!

(This is a reproduction of the report published at https://docs.elfhosted.com/open/jul-2025/)

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