Comment on 4 reasons Plex is turning into the thing it replaced

• Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Welll…They state in their docs how it should be.
  If you deviate from it, that’s on you.

  And yes it’d be nice if they did it automagically but we can’t have everything and I don’t expect it from them honestly as that is really a very niche requirement considering it already works.

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  • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    If you deviate from it, that’s on you.

    I don’t understand why we need to “pin it” on someone?

    I just works differently, I’m a way that requires more hands-on work, as opposed to no hands-on work. So it’s objectively worse. That’s on me?

    It being in the docs is irrelevant in this context. It could’ve been there or not. But the fact that I need to do extra work as opposed to not makes Plex more comfortable in this regard, and I don’t see how that’s up for debate.

    If Jellyfin had done it’s duplication check on identified movie IDs instead of filesystem names, we would be in a different situation. But they don’t, and here we are.

    I’m not ragging on Jellyfin, I’m just pointing out facts. Not even an opinion piece.

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    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It just works differently, in a way that requires more hands-on work

      That’s correct.

      But you chose to ignore the instructions because you are used to a different way of doing it and them you get duplicate entries.
      That’s it (shrug).

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      • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Why are still trying to blame this on the user, lol?

        If the user has to do more work for the same result, it’s a worse system. Period.

        That’s it. 🤷‍♂️

        To go into more detail:

        How did I choose to ignore instructions when I didn’t read them in the first place? Neither system’s installation instructions has this in it. You’d have to deep dive when you realize it doesn’t work for one of them. Namely Jellyfin.

        “Choosing” to ignore it is also a matter of definition. If I rename all my shit, I am a) duplicating lots of downloads on my system because I need to keep the original in order to seed, or b) not able to seed and lose my ability to gain more content in the first place.

        Sometimes people’s circumstances are different from yours, my friend.

        I understand Jellyfin is better in so many other aspects, I agree with that, but do not defend one single feature which works objectively worse and pin it on the user. Don’t be that person.

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