I work on Jellyfin. I once posted saying Plex is not a competitor because we are not in a race, so there is no such thing as “winning.”

So… many… angry… responses.

I’m working on finding a job after being laid off at the start of September.

… and fixing this stupid subtitle bug in the Jellyfin for Roku app 🤘

The ai didn’t do it for her 🫠

…and Roku apps are very good

🤘

Neat

Do you remember the dhtmlguru? The site had the bronze man holding some kind of ball over his head and would magically move when you hovered over the navigation menu.

I sometimes think Jellyfin gets on Roku devices because none of the little snots at Roku’s corporate office have taken notice, fallen through the cracks and forgotten about.

🤫

For one, they moved from open source to closed source without notice.

https://web.archive.org/web/20181212104719/https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby/issues/3479

through re-sign-on after that latest update that forced it

I’ve racked my brain to determine WHY that happened, but the only thing I can guess is Roku saw the channel differently because I packaged it instead of the previous person, so the config didn’t port over /shrug

Never had that happen before.

congrats!

Thanks!

😆 Ok buddy.

Opinion of 1 Jellyfin programmer

I mention JellyFin because at some stage it will become a business and they’ll start charging too,

Citation needed.

or it will get left behind because it’s free.

What do you mean left behind? By who? Anyway, what’s wrong with being left behind?

We’re not beholden to anyone. We’re not in competition with anyone. We’re not in a race, so I don’t understand how we could get left behind.

We’ll keep doing what we do with the amazing team of people who volunteer their time, and other solutions can do whatever they want to do, I don’t care because, again, it’s not a competition!

👋😢

🤘 Thanks

🤘 Enjoy

I just want to watch some damn videos without being someone else’s payday.

Amen!

Neat, I just figured Roku clients were just going to get just enough attention to work.

Nope. We have a team dedicated to working on the Roku client. They’re constantly working on not only bug fixes, but also improvements and new functionality.

🤘 Right on! Thanks for posting these.

Several of these have never been brought up to the devs, so this is the first time seeing anyone ask for them.

The Roku client for jellyfin is also a futureless husk of a client.

How so? What do you see as missing?

I’ve been rallying against clever code for years!

Sure, it makes you have less lines for your l33t code solutions, but in the real world, it sacrifices the maintainability of code that others will eventually work on.

Between a clever 1 line fix and maintainable 10 line fix, I’ll choose the 10 line every time.

Yeah, that tracks.

At work someone estimated adding a section of static content to a page that uses React as 3 story points.

They were searching for components that would style the header and paragraph elements just as they wanted them, but were coming up short.

Instead I simply added it with html elements and a couple of lines of CSS.

5 minutes. Done.

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