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Re: Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team

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Post by someguyiguess » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 1:53 AM UTC

2muchtime wrote: post #6

al_borland wrote: post #2

Happy to see that it looks like a peaceful transition. I’m not currently a Jellyfin user, I tried it, but it didn’t seem capable of handling my library on my hardware. I’m sticking with Plex for now, but as they move more and more toward trying to be a streaming service instead of a media server, I’m hoping Jellyfin matures to the point where it’s viable when I need it.

What do you mean they’re moving toward trying to be a streaming service?

They’re a paid service now. It’s no longer open source.

Re: Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team

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Post by deejaaymac » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 1:54 AM UTC

timcobb wrote: post #7

tclancy wrote: post #3

Huge fan of Jellyfin and the whole related stack, glad to see this is all peaceful.

What's the related stack

Jellyfin, sonarr, radarr, lidarr, sometimes jackett....aka the ArrStack

Re: Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team

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Post by Supercompressor » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 1:55 AM UTC

jbird99 wrote: post #5

Cool to see fellow Mohawk alum making the front page of HN. I wish you all the best in your future endeavors Joshua and team!

Had no idea, that is cool! Thanks for pointing this out.

Re: Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team

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Post by al_borland » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 2:08 AM UTC

techaqua wrote: post #4

al_borland wrote: post #2

Happy to see that it looks like a peaceful transition. I’m not currently a Jellyfin user, I tried it, but it didn’t seem capable of handling my library on my hardware. I’m sticking with Plex for now, but as they move more and more toward trying to be a streaming service instead of a media server, I’m hoping Jellyfin matures to the point where it’s viable when I need it.

what is your hardware problem?

I’m running Plex via Docker on a Synology NAS. This has been working fine. When I tried to fire up a Jellyfin container, it was painfully slow. Clients barely worked. It wasn’t a good experience. It was several months ago, so I don’t remember all the details.

Re: Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team

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Post by chaosharmonic » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 2:14 AM UTC

someguyiguess wrote: post #11

2muchtime wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you mean they’re moving toward trying to be a streaming service?

They’re a paid service now. It’s no longer open source.

To the best of my knowledge Plex has never been open source. It's just easy to mix up because it's been using Kodi as a base the whole time.

Re: Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team

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Post by igor47 » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 2:18 AM UTC

al_borland wrote: post #14

techaqua wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

what is your hardware problem?

I’m running Plex via Docker on a Synology NAS. This has been working fine. When I tried to fire up a Jellyfin container, it was painfully slow. Clients barely worked. It wasn’t a good experience. It was several months ago, so I don’t remember all the details.

I wonder if it was just a start up issue? Some kind of initial scan of your database?

Re: Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team

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Post by Krutonium » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 2:18 AM UTC

deejaaymac wrote: post #12

timcobb wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's the related stack

Jellyfin, sonarr, radarr, lidarr, sometimes jackett....aka the ArrStack

Surely it should be the StackArr?

Re: Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team

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Post by infecto » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 2:19 AM UTC

kortilla wrote: post #8

2muchtime wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you mean they’re moving toward trying to be a streaming service?

Plex is a piece of shit that rams dumb streaming stuff down your throat each time you sign in on a TV. This coincidentally happens every other month or so when the app seems to forget the account it’s signed into. It’s becoming hostile for people who want to work from their media alone.

I am not so sure. Have used it for years for free( I have need to stream on the go) and it’s always been no issue. On first setup you are give the option to display streaming options or only your library. I cannot remember the last time I was logged. Super stable and zero time spent setting it up.

On the flip side Jellyfin has never worked that well out of the box for me. Always some fiddling around and even when I get it right the server will crash unexpectedly and when I want to go watch something I have to manually reboot it.

Re: Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team

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Post by tclancy » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 2:19 AM UTC

timcobb wrote: post #7

tclancy wrote: post #3

Huge fan of Jellyfin and the whole related stack, glad to see this is all peaceful.

What's the related stack

Yeah the arr stack plus seer. It all feels like cheating. Which it is.

Re: Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team

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Post by hankbond » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 2:19 AM UTC

Jellyfin is great for my needs, and I appreciate the effort that goes into it. Recently was having rendering issues doing HDR -> SDR tone mapping since I watch my content on a 2008 era Pioneer plasma display. I found that oddly enough while the server is pretty solid, the client experience is a bit hit or miss. I'm using the mpg-shim adapter, and I'm looking forward to them building a native app with better native render compositing.