They’ve decided money is more important than a good product, I just turn everything extra off as soon as they announce it on my server
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attaxia@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s unfortunate Plex seems hell bent on adding features nobody asked for while there forums are full of issues that have gone unsolved for years.
JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 7 months ago
bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
They’re a for-profit company. All of their new features are aimed at increasing revenue, either by introducing ad based content (and growing the user base that watches ad based content), or new features behind a paywall. The only way for those bugs to get fixed is if they risk reducing potential revenue.
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 7 months ago
That’s how most development works nowdays, doesn’t it? Move fast and break things, create constant new content before people tire of the old, etc.
Kepabar@startrek.website 7 months ago
I think the feature is cool and I’m looking forward to it personally.
Maybe they should have made it opt in, but social features like this on other platforms like discord and stream aren’t, so … eh.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
If only there was a FOSS alternative to plex which slowly gained popularity…
Winter8593@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I for one would love to use Jellyfin. Though I’ve found in my personal experience it’s not as stable as Plex nor has as many features yet. I currently have both running on my home system but primarily use Plex. One day I will fully switch.
Gabagoolzoo@kbin.social 7 months ago
I put off using Jellyfin for years because of comments like this. Finally made the switch three years ago and lo and behold... it's just a better Plex. More customizable, less intrusive and the syncplay actually works. There are a few issues client-side depending on your platform, but other than that I don't get the criticism.
JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Does it have an official app on all smart tvs and plug devices (Roku/firestick) like plex? That would be the hurdle for me, all of my family is happy with plex because every device including the $400 trash Black Friday TVs have a plex app already on them, they just need to sign in.
ComradeMiao@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yeah, it is the best
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Curious what issues you have? In my experience plex was very annoying to work with while Jellyfin has been working stable like a charm.
Hardest part has been sideloading it on a smart tv But other then that it worked out of the box.
I do however keep everything local and offline, what really pushed me away from plex was how it kept nagging about making an account and “verifying that i own this server” ever single time i wanted to watch sm.
drudoo@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I have two main issues:
The appletv app isn’t as smooth and fast as plex. It is hard to convince my wife to switch when the user experience is not as good.
No profile fast switch. Unlike any other streaming service (Plex included) jellyfin doesn’t offer a list of profiles on startup to select who’s watching. This is a huge issue for me, as my wife, son and I uses the same devices with our own profiles.
IronKrill@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
As a dedicated Jellyfin user, 100% agree. I love it, but glitches where it loses my seek progress and requires restarting the video, or the terrible subtitle support on Roku, or the often lackluster library management (they improve it slowly though!), these all make it much harder to recommend.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 7 months ago
One feature I enjoy is hardware acceleration without paying for it
vox@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Plex charges for THAT?
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Tried installing it once and literally had to give up, whereas Plex works mostly on the first try each time I’ve changed oses/servers. But yeah I wish I could use jellyfish
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Docker should be piss easy
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 7 months ago
One would think
EasternLettuce@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Gabagoolzoo@kbin.social 7 months ago
Caddy makes it a breeze. Just get a domain name, add an A record for your IP and put in this one line:
caddy reverse-proxy --from example.com --to 127.0.0.1:8096Just like that, remote access over HTTPS.
Evilcoleslaw@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s not even really difficult to do it the manual way and completely free. DuckDNS supports Let’s Encrypt DNS challenges now and it’s fairly easy to do. No paying for your own domain name.
stown@sedd.it 7 months ago
I’ve never tried installing Jellyfin but I am curious as to what makes it a pain for remote access. With Plex I just set my reverse proxy to point at the internal IP and port and I’m good to go. I assumed it would be the same with Jellyfin.
Lem453@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
It’s can be exactly this with jellyfin as well. The minimal setup with no https is just that, run app, open port on router and port forward. If you want https it requires messing with certs manually or using a reverse proxy.
Plex can take care of the login for you by using their own servers to log you in. Non technical users will of course find this easier to use but now Plex has data on all your users and logins and possibly viewing habits as well. Proponents of self hosting and open source don’t like that aspect of Plex.
I personally think Plex will continue to add features that make it more attractive for someone like Netflix to buy. Those features are generally the opposite of what self hosted users actually want.
Plex has been around for a long time and has a decent amount of funding so they have better client apps. Jellyfin is catching up fast.
I’ve used my setup with web browsers, Android, iOS and it’s been very solid.
SuddenlyBlowGreen@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Tailscale.
EasternLettuce@lemm.ee 7 months ago