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People who bought the lifetime Plex pass, and have a huge group of friends and family already connected to their servers.
Didn't stop me.
Nice anecdote.
Didn't stop me, either.
In fact, Jellyseerr is a game changer. Wanna talk about it?
Is that a fork of overseerr?
Yup.
Sure! What does it do?
https://docs.jellyseerr.dev/getting-started
tldr: searches metadata websites for movies and TV shows, and then adds thing to Jellyfin.
You can even then tell your *arrrr stack
https://trash-guides.info/
to report things that succeed/fail to external services like Telegram.
https://files.catbox.moe/6758vv.jpg
What I do find weird is actually searching the Plex server I have access to for media
https://files.catbox.moe/rugpx0.jpg
Like, I could? But what I like doing is abusing another family members fibre connection to request things for both of us, that then appears in their Jellyfin magically.
Neat.
I have no issues with downloading stuff as I usually just download boxsets once a season has finished. All that is manual for me and I have no issues with that side of things. I think Jellyseer honestly wouldn't really help my issues with Jellyfin. Jellyfin has:
But since Plex is so bad on my TV, Jellyfin is still better sometimes. 😅
Yeah I was gonna say, Plex has a terrible UI and is why I stay away from that crap.
Jellyseerr thou is something even my less than tech savvy peeps I know just punch stuff into and making the Telegram channel make noises. I should really turn those notifications off.
Better than Jellyfin. What I meant by terrible on my TV is that it's painfully slow.
You do realize that Jellyseerr is a fork of Overseerr which was created for Plex. So this is in no way a unique feature or even an advantage of Jellyfin over Plex...