I never had any issues with the entire site whack-a-mole thing. I just go to fmhy, select some of the starred services and watch.
Comment on Why bother with jellyfin, arr stack and everything else if free streaming services exist?
remon@ani.social 3 weeks ago
I just like actually owning all my stuff and don’t want to deal with sites randomly shutting down, moving, having an incomplete or miss-organized library, bad quality, etc. My own collection certainly isn’t prefect but if there is issues I can fix them, it’s all in one place (no different sites for movies, tv shows, anime, etc) and it tracks all my watch-history which most free sites don’t. I can one-click download stuff to my laptop or phone for offline-watching (guess you can do that with yt-dlp for most sites, but again more effort)
Are you hosting arr stack/plex/jellyfin?
Yup.
How much is it utilized (in watch hours/week for example, mine was less than 2/week)?
I get about 3 days of watch-time between my 10ish active users per week.
Have you considered not using it?
Nope, I’m so done with the free streaming site whack-a-mole, not going back.
garbage_world@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
Because you’re a child who can’t have been at this for more than a couple years. Most of the sites you use now probably won’t be there in 5 years.
garbage_world@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And? The indexes are constantly updating, based on working sites. It might have benn different back in 2000s or 2010s, but now it’s pretty easy to find a new site when the old one closes
ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
…which is the whack a mole you claim wasn’t an issue for you.
No one said it was hard. It’s annoying. And unnecessary with an arr setup.
So done with the paid services whack-a-mole and price hikes too.