I used Plex for my home media for almost a year, then it stopped playing nice for reasons I gave up on diagnosing. While looking at alternatives, I found Jellyfin which is much more responsive, IMO, and the UI is much nicer as well.
It gets relegated to playing Fraggle Rock and Bluey on repeat for my kiddo these days, but I am absolutely in love with the software.
What are some other FOSS gems that are a better experience UX/UI-wise than their proprietary counterparts?
EDIT: Autocorrect turned something into “smaller” instead of what I meant it to be when I wrote this post, and I can’t remember what I meant for it to say so it got axed instead.
I just let it index mine overnight, everything was ready to go next day. Adding new media to the server isn’t really a problem, IMO.
It’s worth it for the UI responsiveness alone, disregarding the fact that Plex just… stopped working one day for no discernable reason. No errors in any logs, my Plex server was running fine. No changes to the network, everything hosted the exact same, all my clients were logged in, running the same way, etc. Just… stopped seeing each other one day. Couldn’t access my server from any device in the home.
If your Plex server was hosted on Hetzner and only stopped working very recently, this is probably what happened.