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After 22 hours and 291 comments, I can see that 80% is sunk cost, 15% never bothered to look at their Jellyfin client's settings, and the rest use a device that doesn't have a client for Jellyfin yet.
Then you didn't read the comments.
The one about Jellyfin fans being insufferable and putting me off the project made so much sense to me after reading comments like yours.
There's only one, well, now two with yours, comments about that. Any negativity is being brought here by you. Sure, people who use jellyfin advocate for it whenever they can. Just like Linux users can be seen as insufferable by windows only people. Or self-host fans can be felt as insufferable by people happy giving their data to google, Microsoft, meta and apple. But then, you fucking missed your turn, this is self-host, what do you think people were going to talk about here?
You strawmanned the shit out of the comments and don't call that negativity? If your response is nearly verbatim "everyone who disagrees with me has no argument, they are just stupid" then I'm not sure what reaction you expect. There's dozens of good points in this thread and yet you dismissed literally every one.
Wow, that's a lot of projection on a single comment. I didn't disagree with any of the comments. And I'm not attacking anyone. Chill down, we are talking about software ffs.
I'm fine...are you confused about this thread or something? And forgetting what you actually said, or...?
Like, the comment about getting worked up after you seemed to get really worked up is weird.
Weird, weird replies.
Using a product that you paid for long ago that still works just fine doesn't really fit the bill of the "sunk cost fallacy."
I didn't say fallacy. I said sunk cost. I'm not judging. It's a legitimate sunk cost if it is indeed rationally better to keep using it rather than stopping.
Securely sharing is simpler on Plex. I can invite anyone with just an email and they have near instant access to an HTTPS encrypted service. I don't have to deal with setting up a VPN, reverse proxy or ACLs (in the case of something like Tailscale).
If your device doesn’t have a client it probably has a kodi port. Jellyfin libraries can be imported in kodi with plugins (and plex and emby for that matter). Then you get the benefits of kodi (better skin support, more robust plugins, better subtitle rendering, etc) with the centralized metadata administration of Jellyfin and retain the option to use Jellyfin clients on devices with locked ecosystems (eg ios) or where you don’t feel like setting up kodi