• Windex007@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    7 hours ago

    For the record, I fucking hate Plex.

    But this is a disingenuous simplification of where the gap is.

    Me, my brother-in-law, and friend all share our libraries with the same elderly relatives.

    The GAP is that great grandma has to log in/out between servers to find content that may or may not be on an individual server. Plex lets you search/aggregate from all sources without having to jockey credentials and servers.

    It’s not a giant ask. I heard a fucking absolutely brain-dead take that “that would require a centralized server which is against Jellyfins core ideology”.

    So, I dunno. Maybe it isn’t YOUR use case, but it’s MY use case. Doesn’t make me a shill. I’m still pissed as hell.

    But don’t fucking pretend that there is feature parity when there isn’t, and don’t accuse me of being a shill just because Jellyfin literally doesn’t support my use case. I WISH it did. I HATE PLEX.

    • Kusimulkku@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      The GAP is that great grandma has to log in/out between servers to find content that may or may not be on an individual server

      What does this mean? I just have one Jellyfin server I put stuff on

      • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comEnglish
        1·
        44 minutes ago

        Me, my brother-in-law, and friend all share our libraries with the same elderly relatives.

        So grandma would need to switch between all three servers to access all content.

    • Dozzi92@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      6 hours ago

      You’re responding to the same disingenuous argument you see all over Lemmy made by folks whose jobs are in the IT field.

      That being said, why hate Plex? I’m sure, like me, you’re grandfathered in. Is it fucking new users? Sure. Sucks. Not everything is a battlefield, and they’ll eventually fuck me and then I will abandon them, it is what it is. But for now, the shit just always works with almost no tweaking from me. I really can’t ask for much more. Got my mom to watch The Wire because of Plex.

      • marighost@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        I joined Plex a little at the end of 23, but only really started adding content early last year. I’m sort of glad I didn’t buy the lifetime pass, given the recent changes.

        I’ve been able to share it with so many people (including tech-unfriendly family members). I guess we’ll just have to see what happens next with Plex, unless jellyfin becomes easier to set up for us less experienced home server folks…

      • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish
        2·
        3 hours ago

        I stopped trying to use Plex years ago (like 10) when that shit was just painful… AND they wanted to charge me for the luxury of that pain.

        I’m sure it got lots better, but it left such a bad taste in my mouth at the time I’ve gone without easy media watching instead, and tried all sorts of things.

        Hopefully Jellyfin keeps improving. I’d rather donate to them every year than pay a sub to Plex.

        Glad it’s worked for you though, and I mean that. When Plex worked for me, it was pretty good.