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I want to be a developer and help out the jellyfin community. I started with plex but it felt wrong trusting a corpo with my movie collection, and on top of that I am allergic to paywalls, so I switched to jellyfin and never looked back.
I have someee programming experience, but i’ve never had a real job as a programmer. Where can I start?
There is a link about how to start on the git page. The initial work is fixing compiler warnings and other easy bugs.
I'm thinking to learn more to help with the Google TV app.
There is a nomination process https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-meta/blob/master/policies-and-procedures/new-team-member-nominations.md
I'm the same though, would love to learn, and have some experience. But never a real job, not sure how to start.
this is why i'll stick to plex, it actually has developers
Ooops, Plex just banned the server provider you were using, guess you'll have to migrate it all at the drop of a hat.
You should never use bad examples. It just makes your comment look stupid.
Without an explanation, this comment looks more stupid. Why is their example bad?
What kind of moron isn't hosting his own plex server?
The kind that did a cost analysis of buying their own hardware and running costs vs the cost of a VPS. Or the kind that doesn't have good uplink bandwidth and wants to share with family and friends.
You would have to be a fucking moron of the highest order to upload tons of illegal content to a cloud based server.
As opposed to keeping it at home? 🙂 How is it any worse? If anything it can be better, there are some VPS services that attempt to preserve your privacy to some extent.
Have you heard of Plex literally banning Hetzner, a server provider?
Apparently I have to be more clear. What kind of moron is using a cloud based server for their
Movie collection?
You can have a perfectly legal collection, not give anyone else access and still be affected just because you use a particular host provider.
a perfectly legal collection, not give anyone else access
I would love to meet this unicorn.
Yeah and it was banned for being heavily used by awful criminals. Probably not a big deal to switch hosts even if you didn't self host for some reason
server provider? what do you mean, they can ban my nas?
Nope, but they did make it so I get suggested streaming providers before my own bloody media. That’s why I switched to Jellyfin early this year. It’s rough around the edges but it’s functional.
Also, if you think this take is edgy, you clearly didn’t read the article. They literally brought up this exact thing coming up on social media. They’re actively making a call for developers to help.
Nope, but they did make it so I get suggested streaming providers before my own bloody media.
You can disable this entirely.
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I tried jellyfin before I decided to buy the Plex lifetime pass and it just flat out would not boot. The docker container kept failing and I tried various things to troubleshoot. Made me sad but I felt like it was time to finally commit to Plex after using it for like 8 years...
Some people host their plex on a VPS (basically your portion of a server on a cloud that you can do whatever with) server and Plex recently banned a really popular one suddenly.
Wait, do you store your plex media in the cloud? I didn't even know that was an option...
That was my reaction too. People do but I'm not sure I understand. One thing, you could be much more easily on the hook for any copyright issue even if accidental. Also you're paying for a new service. I'd rather just occasionally do some local maintenance and pay the $2 a month extra to keep my machine running which I'd likely do anyhow.
Some people store their plex on a vps server, and plex recently banned the cheapest super popular one because some people were selling access to Plex servers on that host.
It's a very attractive option if all you want to host is Plex. What the average self-hoster pays for hardware + electrical would buy a lot of VPS time. It's also money that's spread over a longer period of time vs a large upfront cost.
Yeah too bad that I was on a host heavily associated with CSAM /s
had
Plex lays off 20% of its workforce amid advertising slowdown
You realize this is the free and open source software community right? Replying to a call for development support with a commercial closed source product isn't very helpful.
p.s. despite its "lack of developers" I've personally found Jellyfin to be superior to Plex with respect to its core functions.
It's hacktoberfest and I guess I can find some time to solve some easy issues on their repo. Thanks!
Did my part and submitted about 300 translation entries yesterday. Not sure I am proficient enough in C# or JS to help with code, more of a Java and Go person.
The biggest improvement I'd want to see is the AppleTV app. UI/UX are mostly fine, but it has such a hard time actually getting the streams, or it will freeze if you try to scrub, or the quality will be awful. It's mostly not usable. Wish I solid with Swift dev, I'd love to jump in on that one.
Have you tried Swiftfin? It's 3rd party open source. I find it works much better than the official Jellyfin app.
I've been running a Jellyfin server on my homelab (with cloudflare tunnel to internet) for a while now, so I may actually look into helping out with this. Jellyfin is fantastic, and has been much easier for me than Plex.