As expected and as is usual I’ve read through another very salty justification for using Jellyfin that is based on anger or idealism. I rarely if ever see anyone making the argument that Jellyfin is actually materially better usability-wise. it’s always, “Plex is going down the shitter, you’ll see!”. OK then, if Jellyfin becomes better, then i’ll switch. isn’t the point that I own the media, so i can switch to whatever i want, whenever i want? Which to me is, when Jellyfin is better for my use-case. So many people act like this is like placing a bet on your favourite sports team. Like If one piece of software eventually gets bad then it was never worth using at all. We’re all going to die, eventually, so by that logic neither Plex nor Jellyfin would be worth using.

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cassianoleal an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I see an almost equal amount of both.

I'm still using Plex. It still seems to be better for 90% of my use cases but I'd like to switch eventually. Unfortunately Jellyfin seems to be a lot of work upfront for which I don't currently have the time or motivation.

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antiframe 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's better for my use cases. For starters, I don't have to login every so often for no reason. I don't have my local software break because they updated their server. I also find it much slower.

Picking a tool is a very personal decision, and it depends on one's values and one's use.

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mvanbaak 12 hours ago | parent [-]

I logged in 6 years ago. Since then its just working. Yes, plex. On my appletv

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kennethrc 11 hours ago | parent [-]

Ditto for me on every one of the ~20 places I've logged in starting in ~2017

	▲	antiframe 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Well then I was a one off. It got me (along with how slow it was) to leave. Maybe it was a bug? Maybe I misconfigured it? Maybe it was OS? Who knows? Glad it works for you. This was using the local web server instance to manage permissions for users, so maybe every time my distro undated the web server software or something. Either way, for my use case it didn't work out of the box. JellyFun did and does. Every tool decision is personal. Your experience doesn't nullify mine.

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tengbretson 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'll happily take 10 "oops I messed up your order"s over 1 "I put sawdust in the bread"

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jjulius 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The simple fact of the matter is that, for many, enshittification outweighs usability. People are very happy to switch to something that may not be functionally all that better just as long as it doesn't come with a whole bunch of extra, in their opinion, bullshit.

And that's fine. If you're not bothered by what others are, cool beans. Good for you.

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sowbug 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

God forbid anyone avoid a merchant because of anger, or choose a merchant because of idealism.

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malfist 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What in the world are you even trying to say? That because we all die at some point there is no reason to not sell out to an exploitive corporation because they have better UIs?

	▲	u_fucking_dork 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		No, the opposite if anything. I’m curious how you came to that conclusion.

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mvanbaak 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Ppl want developers to work for free. Especially here on hn