Self-Hosted Alternatives to Popular Services

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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/darrenpauli on 2025-06-28 23:46:43+00:00.

Bryce Lamp u/bryceclampe (blamp) is an experienced developer and runs Reading Glasses, wants to take over the project and is asking for support in raising it with the dev team.

You can reach them on Discord

https://readarr.com/discord

He already revitalised Readarr with his improved metadata service.

https://github.com/blampe/rreading-glasses

From his GitHub:

"I've offered to take over maintenance of Readarr from the team but haven't heard back from anyone yet. If you'd like to see continued support for Readarr please encourage the team to add me to the existing GitHub org!"

Readarr retirement announcement and call for someone to take over the project

https://www.reddit.com/r/Readarr/comments/1llqji9/announcement_retirement_of_readarr/

Here's how to keep Readarr running in the meantime:

From https://www.reddit.com/r/Readarr/comments/1llqji9/comment/n03wi6f

For those wanting to keep using Readarr, switching to this metadata server is working for me https://github.com/blampe/rreading-glasses

If you want to do it just add /settings/development to the end of your readarr url (the development menu isn't available in the UI so you have to manually type it to get there) and then change metadata source to https://api.bookinfo.pro/ and save.

I have no affiliation with them and can't speak to how well it works for everything, or how long it will work. But right now it's working for me and I can search things like normal (and it's noticeably faster).