This is legit the opposite of my experience. I am a relatively tech savvy user, I like to fiddle with all the settings and an ugly UI doesn’t inherently deter me as long as the experience is good, so when I first installed jellyfin I was ready to have a clunky experience fighting the UI.
Despite that, I was legitimately surprised at how Jellyfin was far less confusing for me to use out of the box than plex ever was. I found Plex’s UI very confusing to navigate on my TV and my family did not like using it either. In Jellyfin all the content is just there and very easily categorized.
It made me wonder why anyone would use plex.
tehmics@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
That’s the opposite of my experience. Jellyfin just works and immediately exposes the content we’re looking for, plex tries overloading you with bullshit and burying your actual content
kindred@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
I believe you. I feel that way about iTunes (trauma intensifies).
But Jellyfin doesn’t have that reputation.
BaroqueInMind@piefed.social 11 hours ago
Are you seriously telling us you reading from three reddit threads from almost a decade ago and consider that “reputation “?
kindred@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
I am beginning to remember what made me think Jellyfin wasn’t user friendly.
Maybe it wasn’t the user interface after all.
ripcord@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
For remote streaming to, say, your mum’s house? (Or a friend, etc)?
Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 4 hours ago
Yes, after I set up the server properly (reverse proxy). With this change the same setup on the server side is necessary for remote streaming with free Plex.
My mum puts in the domain, username and password and starts streaming.
AtariDump@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Guess what I didn’t have to setup with Plex or Emby.