Thank you for posting this. I thought it was just me.

In my case, one user actually lost access entirely to my libraries, the updated app was trying to force him to buy a personal pass, even though I have a Plex pass.

I had him reset his app and clear cache, to no avail. I ended up having to REMOVE his access to my libraries, and then reshare them to him, before he could access them again.

He was quite upset at Plex during the entire process.

Then the next day, he got this same email, and was frustrated all over again thinking he was gonna have to fight it again.

Really terrible customer service here, very sloppy. Aside from the fact that this is a greedy cash grab, it's just being done poorly.

Jellyfin still isn't feature packed enough for me to switch to, unfortunately.

You're not alone, I definitely spent the majority of my time on 720p rips. I couldn't tell the difference between them and 1080. Though these days, actually just recently, I've switched over to 1080, and I can tell when it's lower.

But most my collection is still 720 and I feel no need to go back through and update everything. Maybe when I get arr set up I'll let it go through and do it for me 🤷‍♂️

Which thread? I'm casual, I don't have time or energy to keep a good ratio. I seed plenty, but it seems like private trackers, for all their benefits, would also be a chore. I've looked into them before but never got past needing an invite.

At this point in my life I'm not concerned about the highest bitrate. I use yify for all my movies, and 1337x for TV shows, grab them in full seasons as I need them.

I'm open to new ideas, though, if it's not too hard to get started.

The only problem is properly exposing jellyfin to the Internet. How do you do it?

I'm not planning on leaving Plex anytime soon. But I did plan on setting up jellyfin in parallel to play with it and learn about it. But this stopped me in my tracks.

I don't want my family to need to VPN into my network. Plex, for as frustrating as it is in many ways, just works. And it works on so much stuff.

Yeah, odd response from this community. Entirely unexpected.

I plan on looking into it again, if nothing else than to have a backup when Plex finally does completely crap the bed.

Which I agree, this is pretty close, but I'm not there yet.

I'm glad you posted this because I thought I was alone too, I searched for and didn't find anyone with this problem. Almost made a post here, but decided I didn't want the abuse haha.

Ah gotcha, no worries.

You can get away without port forwarding if the Linux ISO you're trying to get has a lot of peers who DO have port forwarding. But your speed could be slower because of it. And if you want a more obscure ISO that doesn't have a lot of support, doesn't have a lot of peers, then your speed will likely suffer, and might not be able to download anything at all.

It's something to research. If you don't like PIA, proton also has port forwarding 👍

It's a very confusing and poorly worded email. My users were equally confused. Not everyone is techy or even deeply aware of how Plex even works. Nor should they be expected to.

The message was designed to confuse and extract money from people who don't know better. It's trashy and they should be ashamed.

That said, I'm still using Plex for the time being.

This, works great. Nearly flawless

My brothers were using limewire like 20 years ago when I was a preteen. So I started using limewire, and quickly surpassed them in skill. Jumped to TPB when they got popular. I now host the family media server, and take requests 😬

Still haven't taken the time to set up sonarr radarr and the like. Would probably simplify my life a lot. But I've got a system and it works 🤷‍♂️

https://geti2p.net/en/

But he updated to say he misspoke, he meant p2p

Yeah steam is where it's at. I'm sure it won't last, and they have their own problems. But for now? It really is a service problem with TV and movies.

I can easily buy and own a game from steam, play it on my deck and get updates, no muss no fuss.

I can't think of a weird or baffling event of my own, but yours was definitely weird. Maybe not for the reasons you think.

I know some JWs, and while they definitely don't gamble, the rest of that doesn't add up at all. They party and drink and listen to music, openly. I mean they won't get blackout drunk, but frankly neither will I.

How old were you guys? Maybe they had super overly strict parents?

You set this up in docker? I've been fighting docker all day, finally trying to set up some arr stuff. I'm not convinced that docker is the right way to go.

Public exposure to the Internet without needing tailscale or a VPN. I keep hearing mixed opinions on whether it's recommended or not.

I'm not afraid of configuring it, reverse proxy and all that. I just want it to be secure, and I keep getting mixed signals.

For now I'll keep dealing with Plex, but eventually I'm sure I'll need to figure out a solution using jellyfin.

Can you elaborate? I've been trying to find a way to expose jf to the Internet safely without a VPN, and I'm getting mixed messages from people.

I just got a cloudfare domain the other day actually.

Thanks, I'm hearing similar things in this thread. I'm gonna look into it

Amazing thank you, when I get time to sit down with this I will probably have more questions!

Looks like nohup, screen, or tmux are good options.

I've used screen before, it worked well. Though I've never used it to download stuff, it should work the same

So crazy to hear this, I literally recommend PIA to everyone who asks. It's cheap and hasn't given me issues in 8 years of using it.

Plus it actually supports port forwarding still, unlike mullvad, unfortunately.

That's good to hear. I honestly haven't tried it yet, I need to. The problem is exposing it to the Internet without a VPN.

Clients don't concern me, from what I understand it works on Roku and you can stream from your phone to a Chromecast, that's all my users need.

I refuse to use any TVs built in smart features 🤷‍♂️