I’m not sure I can switch. I have too many friends linked to my server and a decade-ish of watched data.
I know many people watch from TV apps and Chromecasts and I don’t know if there’s an app for every TV brand for jellyfin or emby or whatever.
People watch from all sorts of weird devices. I got push back when I forced SSL because at least one person had a TV so old that it didn’t support doing SSL for Plex. It took me a week to drill it into their brain that I’m not going to change it back and to go buy literally anything to make it work (Chromecast type thing). I think their ended up buying a Roku.
This is just the brainpower that most of the people I share with, have. They just want easy. I do all the hard work in the background and their life is easy.
I can’t imagine how many would have a fit if I forced them off Plex.
Jellyfin looks cool and all, but it’s unlikely I’ll be able to move anytime soon.
I don’t. There’s just a nontrivial number of people I care about that use Plex that don’t know enough about technology to handle something like jellyfin.
Losing years of watched data isn’t great, but ultimately it’s small potatoes.
A big part of the reason I wanted to set up Plex to begin with, was so that my friends and family didn’t have to waste their time downloading the stuff that all of us want to watch.
They don’t demand anything, I want them to be able to use it because I care about those people. If switching to jellyfin is too difficult for the non-techs I care about, then I’ll keep rolling with Plex.
You can run Jellyfin side by side and slowly migrate everyone, starting from the most intelligent users (so you can catch anything that might be wrongly configured, etc.).
In the meantime, I hope that so many users are switching that we’re going to get better native apps.
I’m not sure I can switch. I have too many friends linked to my server and a decade-ish of watched data.
I know many people watch from TV apps and Chromecasts and I don’t know if there’s an app for every TV brand for jellyfin or emby or whatever.
People watch from all sorts of weird devices. I got push back when I forced SSL because at least one person had a TV so old that it didn’t support doing SSL for Plex. It took me a week to drill it into their brain that I’m not going to change it back and to go buy literally anything to make it work (Chromecast type thing). I think their ended up buying a Roku.
This is just the brainpower that most of the people I share with, have. They just want easy. I do all the hard work in the background and their life is easy.
I can’t imagine how many would have a fit if I forced them off Plex. Jellyfin looks cool and all, but it’s unlikely I’ll be able to move anytime soon.
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Why do you let other people dictate how you run your media server?
I don’t. There’s just a nontrivial number of people I care about that use Plex that don’t know enough about technology to handle something like jellyfin.
Losing years of watched data isn’t great, but ultimately it’s small potatoes.
A big part of the reason I wanted to set up Plex to begin with, was so that my friends and family didn’t have to waste their time downloading the stuff that all of us want to watch.
They don’t demand anything, I want them to be able to use it because I care about those people. If switching to jellyfin is too difficult for the non-techs I care about, then I’ll keep rolling with Plex.
It didn’t sound like they do. Just that at least one person complained but bought a Roku to fix.
You can run Jellyfin side by side and slowly migrate everyone, starting from the most intelligent users (so you can catch anything that might be wrongly configured, etc.).
In the meantime, I hope that so many users are switching that we’re going to get better native apps.
I understand that it’s not so bad, but you made it sound like a hellish landscape