It is a bit funny to me that reading this, I can only guess that Jellyfin is a... Plex clone? I guess the writer assumes I already know about/want to improve the product which IS its intended audience, but coming from HN I'm just like what... is... it...
That’s just the nature of HN, you can post absolutely any link on here and I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect a blog post author to accommodate someone arriving on the page with zero context.
The Jellyfin blog achieves one important criteria: when you click the logo at the top it takes you to the actual homepage, rather than a blog homepage. So if you want content on what Jellyfin is it’s only one click away.
Jellyfin is a fork of Emby, that happened when emby close-sourced a bunch of things and pissed everyone off.
It's not really a plex clone inasmuch as it's a truly self-hosted alternative, given that plex uses centralized auth (aka you're possibly back to VLC if your internet is out).
I've used Jellyfin for years now, hasn't really skipped a beat aside from dumping the entire library DB when it started without the library storage spun up, and even that was just a rescan overnight and everything was back and happy.
You're confusing Hacker News with your chat application or your e-mail. Links posted here are not specifically directed towards you as an individual, they're for the general public to reflect on.
