Jellyfin + Jellyseer + PassThePopcorn has served me and my friends/family well. I pay $50/mo now for a seedbox with 16TB but it serves 20 people. I would self-host for $0/month but my current apartment only has Xfinity, not AT&T and the upload isn’t enough to self-host.

It’s less about the money and more about:

1) Having a single place to go for any TV show or movie. I found it very frustrating trying to figure out what service had which show - sometimes none of them have it (a few things are still not streamable at all - e.g. “Sharky and George”)

2) Knowing that my streaming service isn’t downgrading the video quality. Even my lay friends notice the picture quality improvement vs Amazon / Hulu etc.

3) Jellyseer lets my friends request media that gets auto-downloaded. So it’s a curated list of content which helps me discover high quality stuff to watch.

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shepherdjerred 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

How did you get a private tracker?

	▲	throw2ih020 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		All the most popular stuff is easily available on public trackers. For older/obscure stuff, you can run your own tracker easily enough that scrapes the DHT, although you'll probably burn through an SSD doing it. https://bitmagnet.io is one such self-hosted piece of software.
	▲	jamesponddotco 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Personally, I got my first invite by signing up for a seedbox accepted by the tracker. Then I got invites to other trackers from the same group by being a good seeder.
	▲	OptionOfT 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		You don't need a private tracker for stuff that comes out now. In fact, for those things, I'd say a private tracker isn't that interesting because of the share requirements.
	▲	platevoltage 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		You find someone who is already a member and ask for an invite.

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