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 16 hours 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 16 hours ago
ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 15 hours 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 15 hours 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 13 hours 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.