Well that's annoying.

Forgive me for my ignorance, I know a lot of services are bundled in their domain registration. I haven't looked into it at all. But I'm assuming I can just bypass all of that and host ngnx?

Remote access, primarily.

And not with a VPN, but properly exposed to the Internet. I'm learning now that it can be done, just has to be done carefully. It's on my list of things to look into.

I haven't used jellyfin, only Plex. I hear they are similar in features, with Plex pulling ahead both in features and polish, as well as the variety of apps that can access it.

Jellyfins main problem, for me, is its lack of easy remote access. Lots of configuring to do to make it work safely, or safe but clunky to use with a VPN.

At all? Even just using their reverse proxy?

For starters, they say "you MAY be affected" only once, maybe twice, and everywhere else they say you "will" need to buy the upgrade.

The whole thing could've been worded more carefully and cautiously. They know how their service is used, they know the majority of people with accounts are not hosts and never have been, and probably don't even understand how it all works.

Not only could the whole message have been worded better, more softly. They could've used two templates. They have usage metrics, they could see that my user has never ever connected to any other library, only mine, and mine has always had Plex pass. They could've sent him a softball message, informing of the lost feature, sure, but assuring him that his service should remain unaffected because the libraries he's connected to already have Plex pass.

But no. They sent one message, full of FUD, trying to scare people into buying what they don't need, because money.

They do not care about users, they care about money. It's been getting more and more clear over the years with no effort put into fixing bugs on the self hosted side. But now it's crystal clear, to me anyway.

Same

That's good to hear. I honestly haven't tried it yet, I need to. The problem is exposing it to the Internet without a VPN.

Clients don't concern me, from what I understand it works on Roku and you can stream from your phone to a Chromecast, that's all my users need.

I refuse to use any TVs built in smart features 🤷‍♂️

For a reverse proxy, would cloudfare be sufficient?

Thanks, you and others in this thread are the first people to ever tell me about this.

Everyone is always saying tailscale, but that's too complicated and restrictive for my family.

I'm not afraid of port forwarding and dynamic DNS, I've played with it before. My main concern is just doing it safely, not exposing something to the Internet that wasn't designed to be exposed. Security risk, and all that.

Obviously a VPN is the safest way. But as long as JF is reasonably robust and designed to be exposed, I'm happy with that. I just literally didn't know it was designed that way.

Thanks!

Thanks, you and others in this thread are the first people to ever tell me about this.

Everyone is always saying tailscale, but that's too complicated and restrictive for my family.

I'm not afraid of port forwarding and dynamic DNS, I've played with it before. My main concern is just doing it safely, not exposing something to the Internet that wasn't designed to be exposed. Security risk, and all that.

Obviously a VPN is the safest way. But as long as JF is reasonably robust and designed to be exposed, I'm happy with that. I just literally didn't know it was designed that way.

Thanks!

Thanks, you and others in this thread are the first people to ever tell me about this.

Everyone is always saying tailscale, but that's too complicated and restrictive for my family.

I'm not afraid of port forwarding and dynamic DNS, I've played with it before. My main concern is just doing it safely, not exposing something to the Internet that wasn't designed to be exposed. Security risk, and all that.

Obviously a VPN is the safest way. But as long as JF is reasonably robust and designed to be exposed, I'm happy with that. I just literally didn't know it was designed that way.

Thanks!