We’re excited to announce a major update: the Jellyseerr and Overseerr teams are officially merging into a single team called Seerr. This unification marks an important step forward as we bring our efforts together under one banner.
For users, this means one shared codebase combining all existing Overseerr functionalities with the latest Jellyseerr features, along with Jellyfin and Emby support, allowing us to deliver updates more efficiently and keep the project moving forward.
Please check how to migrate to Seerr in our migration guide and stay tuned for more updates on the project!
I didn’t say I could recreate Plex in my homelab. I said Jellyfin has short comings.
Moving the goal posts, The point of this exercise is to show how Jellyfin is a direct replacement for Plex. If you say that it is not, my points stand that it is lacking.
Every new user that moves from Plex to JF just hammers the fuck out of the free and open services. When one of those services has any issue at all, we’re collectively in bad shape. Plex has protection against this. It would be useful if we cached their stuff and threw it into a DHT, crowd refreshing it.
This does not work for anything by pc clients. if you feed a roku, appletv, android TV, samsung television, visio… a 2FA prompt, it’ll tell you to get bent. THEN there’s the half assed fail2ban they made instead of surfacing the logs someplace that we could use real fail2ban, but now you have ME complaining that I can’t hack features into it where there’s no reason they’re not already there.
Their search sucks balls even for small libraries. They know it and they’ve been working on it for years. There are some crazy hacky solutions screwing with ports and moving traffic through elastic-cache. it’s extremely hacky.
In the end, I’m using Jellyfin as my own personal media server and the media server for my family in my house. It’s not as safely designed as Plex, which itself has had some security issues in the past, but they have a paid team for that, You can’t even hack all the features Plex has into your home lab, I could stick it behind cloudflare and get SSL, some proper anti hammer, anti-abuse, but then I’m selling my watch habbits to cloudflare.
I’m glad we have Jellyfin, I wish I had the skill and time to contribute, if they’d even PR a big-ass change like 2FA, last I heard they were standing on the “that might lead people to port forward it openly which would be less secure”, like people aren’t already doing that.
I’d LOVE to get rid of my Plex, it’s just no where near as capable for my remote users, I can’t force grandma to run tailscale.