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by j1elo 1100 days ago
Yeah I was initially surprised when learning about the *arr stack for the first time, as my intuition was very insistently telling me: "I must be gettint it wrong, these ought to be all a single service!!"

They all definitely feel like small parts of a single package, don't look like they merit being their own thing. But it's not my thing, so what do I know.

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The architecture of how they work together is a lot more functional than lots of the software at Fortune 500 companies
I have no idea why Radar and Sonarr are seperate programs. Surely the difference in searching for Movies vs TV is a single line of a query search string.
For some reason the developed hate symlinks, which would fix most of the issues.