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joshstrange • today at 8:15 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Do you have external users (outside your network)? My understanding (and the last time I tried) is that Jellyfin lacks in this department quite a bit. That and ubiquitous clients.

Plex client is available almost everywhere and overall, Plex mostly "just works". The latest Apple TV client changes have me hot and there are things I don't love but that's what's kept me in the Plex ecosystem. I am looking around now though since I'm so disappointed with the new clients/UI.


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80fj0348i • today at 10:33 PM

I have my friends and family using tailscale + jellyfin. Their only complaint is not having an easy way to watch on Xboxes. I convinced a few of them to plug old laptops into their TVs which is working fine.

saikia81 • today at 9:03 PM

I have, after setting things up this year. Any user problems were always due to server-side or bad media files. Or on networking on the server side.

As far as I understand it Jellyfin has been improving client availability and to me seems to work well for friends.

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