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Re: Jellyfin 12.0

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Post by danvayn »

port11 wrote: post #264
waltbosz wrote: post #246

Interesting post about Jellyfin's finances (2024) https://opencollective.com/jellyfin/updates/were-good-seriou... > We have quite a budget collected over the last 5 years, and while we're really happy to see so many in the Jellyfin community contribute to us, we want to ask you to stop! No, really. We don't actually need your money. At least, not here and now. We have over $24,000 in the bank, and with average monthl…

Or, you know, invest the money and try to become more self-sufficient over time, safeguarding development in the future.

Classic HN user take. While $600 is obviously a pisspoor budget, they do incredible work compared to closed source solution companies like Plex. Not everything needs to be capitalistic, in fact the product pretty much sells and safeguards itself based on being freeware with pretty quality UX. Who will replace them?

Re: Jellyfin 12.0

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Post by allthetime »

waltbosz wrote: post #246

Interesting post about Jellyfin's finances (2024) https://opencollective.com/jellyfin/updates/were-good-seriou... > We have quite a budget collected over the last 5 years, and while we're really happy to see so many in the Jellyfin community contribute to us, we want to ask you to stop! No, really. We don't actually need your money. At least, not here and now. We have over $24,000 in the bank, and with average monthl…

Are they not paying themselves?

Re: Jellyfin 12.0

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Post by tpmoney »

tclancy wrote: post #231
Gareth321 wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> As an aside, I recently started having Claude help me with configuring my arr stack and it has helped tremendously. LLMs have been AMAZING for home server maintenance and improvements. I have completed SO many of my "some day" tasks. I never have to read another fucking log file ever again. It has taken all of the friction out of the hobby. It's all* fun now.

Next step: set up a scheduled job to read the logs to find any issues before they bite.

Being realistic, most of our home lab setups wouldn’t come close to “production ready” even without AI generated bugs. Relatively stable because they’re largely un-stressed, yes. Good enough for personal use because you can log in and fix anything, sure. Full of bugs, footguns and brain dead decisions because this is our hobby and not our 40 hour a week paid job? Also yes. Our new AI overlords will simply increase the number of buggy things we can deploy.

Re: Jellyfin 12.0

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Post by aayushdutt »

Their AI policy (https://jellyfin.org/posts/state-of-the-fin-2026-05-24/#llma...)

> AI use isn't completely forbidden in pull requests/code submissions, however you must understand HOW it does what it does, and any posts to a pull request/issue should be written by the user. You cannot function as a go-between between your AI and our questions/comments, just copy-pasting whatever the AI tells you

One of the more sensible ones.

Re: Jellyfin 12.0

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Post by globular-toast »

MrDrMcCoy wrote: post #265

Pity they still haven't finished adding support for proper database backends. SQLite is the source of all my problems with Jellyfin as it buckles under the weight of my library, behaves badly on CoW filesystems, and prevents scaling my instance to multiple nodes.

I don't even have a huge library but it performs terribly on my system due to SQLite. Would love a Postgres backend.

Re: Jellyfin 12.0

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Post by [deleted] »

opello wrote: post #250
swat535 wrote: post #225

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just bought a lifetime pro access , I think it was around 200$ but really worth it. I get all the updates for free. Whenever I can, I buy my software now these days instead of renting it.

It seems like a strange juxtaposition to talk about buying vs. renting while getting updates for free.

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Re: Jellyfin 12.0

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Post by erulabs »

danvayn wrote: post #271
port11 wrote: post #264

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or, you know, invest the money and try to become more self-sufficient over time, safeguarding development in the future.

Classic HN user take. While $600 is obviously a pisspoor budget, they do incredible work compared to closed source solution companies like Plex. Not everything needs to be capitalistic, in fact the product pretty much sells and safeguards itself based on being freeware with pretty quality UX. Who will replace them?

"Capitalistic" is, I'm sure, meant derogatorily. I disagree with the sentiment, and I think the Jellyfin maintainers deserve at least a living wage for their time and efforts.

Re: Jellyfin 12.0

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Post by advisedwang »

port11 wrote: post #264
waltbosz wrote: post #246

Interesting post about Jellyfin's finances (2024) https://opencollective.com/jellyfin/updates/were-good-seriou... > We have quite a budget collected over the last 5 years, and while we're really happy to see so many in the Jellyfin community contribute to us, we want to ask you to stop! No, really. We don't actually need your money. At least, not here and now. We have over $24,000 in the bank, and with average monthl…

Or, you know, invest the money and try to become more self-sufficient over time, safeguarding development in the future.

I'm struggling to think of a use for the money that doesn't result in becoming dependent on the money and thus less self-sufficient long term. What did you have in mind with this comment?

Re: Jellyfin 12.0

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Post by amiga386 »

allthetime wrote: post #272
waltbosz wrote: post #246

Interesting post about Jellyfin's finances (2024) https://opencollective.com/jellyfin/updates/were-good-seriou... > We have quite a budget collected over the last 5 years, and while we're really happy to see so many in the Jellyfin community contribute to us, we want to ask you to stop! No, really. We don't actually need your money. At least, not here and now. We have over $24,000 in the bank, and with average monthl…

Are they not paying themselves?

No.

https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-meta/blob/master/polici...

> Jellyfin funds itself exclusively from donations by individual users. It does not and will not accept any sponsorship or other monetary compensation in exchange for features, priority access, support, or any other work by the community.

They spend the donations on paying for hosting servers, etc. They don't pay anyone a salary.

Their post highlights that your favourite third party client can be different. If your third party client is made by someone who'll accept donations, you should donate to them to keep your client going.

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