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Plex is rolling out its big app redesign
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In some ways it is... In others it's definitely not.
My biggest problem is that I can't expose it on a domain for my family to get to. They don't know how to VPN and to educate them would be exhausting.
Why not?
https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/networking/#running-jellyfin-behind-a-reverse-proxy
Because a reverse proxy doesn't resolve any of these major issues.
https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/5415
Your content can be probed, identified, and streamed all without auth. Your users can be enumerated in certain cases.
Edit: If you host legit content, like family videos... All of that can be leaked. If you don't host legit content... and the public site gets probed and they identify the illegal content... expect to be named in a very large lawsuit... either situation is bad.
Edit2: and hosting it behind a proxy that does it's own auth would break ALL app-based jellyfin clients.
Oh wow. That is... Bad. And the issue has gone unaddressed for 4 years now?
Would seem so. The project is open source, and nobody is getting paid. So the lack of update makes sense to some extent.
As cool as it is.. and as much as I want to make plex shove it completely. Jellyfin just isn't ready for prime-time.
I run both... Jellyfin isn't allowed to talk outside of my network at all, and I can access it over my personal VPN... But Plex is where all my users are because anything else would just be too annoying to maintain.
Holy shit. Thanks. I actually had it exposed as I wanted some of my Plex users to basically beta test my Hardware acceleration config on Jellyfin (another reason why I won't switch anytime soon) but I just shut that thing down and won't touch it until I absolutely have to