Post #3352412

2026-06-19 08:29 UTC

The same reason most foss projects are barren. Plex focuses on ease of use and giving people what they want. They don’t care about the sub. It’s easy to use and works. Meanwhile jellyfin doesn’t have a remote first interface that isn’t absolute dog shit and I need to set up a reverse proxy and potentially idp to get the ability for my family to log in. This shit isn’t hard. The answer to the community is, make the product better, and start bundling shit in. But I’m sure I’ve already offended some nerd who thinks this is all just so easy and requires no work to tell me I just need to learn Linux better. And that putting in a reverse proxy by default will make maintenance a pain and I just have to put portainer and LE to fix it.

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@ugo@feddit.it 2026-06-19 08:34

This shit isn’t hard Well it certainly would be hard for me, as I don’t know anything about the UX needed for these features, and very little about networking in general, and probably close to zero about the networking concepts required to make something like you describe work. But it sounds like you know a lot, jellyfin is a project that is 100% volunteer developed. Maybe you could contribute your expertise either via code or by providing a concrete action plan to the jellyfin team? Be the change you want to see and all that.

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@Ricaz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-06-19 08:57

Most FOSS projects are barren? Huh I’m here to say it’s all very easy and requires no work. Seriously, you literally just install Jellyfin (or run it in Docker), set up nginx with certbot and make a port forward on your router. Zero maintenance at all. Any LLM can give you a complete step-by-step guide that takes 10 minutes to follow if you don’t know what you’re doing.

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