The only problem is properly exposing jellyfin to the Internet. How do you do it?
I'm not planning on leaving Plex anytime soon. But I did plan on setting up jellyfin in parallel to play with it and learn about it. But this stopped me in my tracks.
I don't want my family to need to VPN into my network. Plex, for as frustrating as it is in many ways, just works. And it works on so much stuff.
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!