CineSync v3 released! 🎉
Today's big news is the CineSync v3 release, which upgrades the user experience from this:
To this:
To get the full impact of the new UI, existing users will need to perform a one-time database upgrade, like this:
CineSync is bundled into our SeerrBridge / Plex_Debrid stacks, and performs the task of turning a messy RD library folder into a beautiful set of sorted, categorized symlink folders, for ingestion in your preferred media server.
It's also available as a standalone addition to a Aarr/Riven/cli_debrid stack for edge cases (a one-time RD library import, or custom symlinking with cli_debrid), but you wouldn't want to use it ongoing, alongside Aars or Riven, because you'd end up with duplicate symlinks being created.
If you're impressed with the level of polish and love that went into the v3 release, join us in sponsoring Suresh ❤️ , and give him a shout-out in #elf-cinesync!
ElfBot UI (early adopters trial) 🤖
Our beloved ElfBot multitool is getting a UI / UX upgrade soon too, going from this:
To this:
The ElfBot UI will eventually roll out to all users automatically, but we're entering a period of early-adopter testing, to root out any remaining bugs / edge-cases. If you're an early adopter, you can opt into the new ElfBot UI at https://store.elfhosted.com/product/elfbot-early-adopters-trial/.
Featured Origin Story 🌱
We're trying something new, collecting your legendary "origin story" at #elf-origins - high-effort posts earn a beautiful holographic "elf-legend" role in Discord, as well as a surprise random ElfPoints drop of up to 1,000 points (worth $10 credit). Post your story to level up!
Here's the first story from our first legendary Elfie:
It started in a dorm room. While others were chasing majors or parties, I was burning DVDs—stacks of them—organizing rentals with a clipboard, a signup sheet, and blind faith in the honor system. I wasn’t just a student… I was a one-man blockbuster. A media vigilante. After graduation, I evolved. The DVDs gave way to a basement Plex server. One NAS became two, then four bays, then eight—each upgrade a new chapter in my saga. For fifteen years, I nurtured that beast. It was my fortress, my legacy. But like all great machines, it eventually fell. The Synology died. The empire crumbled. I stood at a crossroads: drop thousands on another NAS rebuild... or find a new way. So I searched. Cloud hosting. Seedboxes. Sketchy Reddit threads. And then, like a whisper in the dark, I found it: ElfHosted. I clicked. I lurked. I doubted. But something about it... felt right. I started small—just the basic Plex and AARs package. Within days, I knew: this was it. The performance. The simplicity. The elegance. I leveled up to the Ranger Plan without hesitation. I’ve tried Riven. I’ve danced with the add-ons. But I always return to the Holy AARs. There’s a reason they’re the core. Now? My ElfHosted library sits at 390TB and counting. Friends and family stream effortlessly. Dolby Vision lights up the AV room like a beacon. And I, once a dorm-room disc hustler, now reign as the provider of all things watchable. This isn’t just storage. This is destiny.