Plex might look a little different.

Following months of testing, Plex has started to roll out its redesigned mobile app to Android and iOS devices, and it will arrive to everyone within the next week. The new app comes with an updated navigation system that should make it easier to access different parts of the app and find content to watch, along with a dedicated tab for centralized media libraries.

It also has a button in the top-right corner of the screen for your Watchlist and more artwork across detail pages for shows and movies, as well as cast and crew profiles. In a post on the Plex forum, the company outlines a ton of improvements it has made to the app since the preview, including faster load times and scrolling, the addition of a sleep timer, and picture-in-picture support.

    • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Because a reverse proxy doesn’t resolve any of these major issues.

      https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/5415

      Your content can be probed, identified, and streamed all without auth. Your users can be enumerated in certain cases.

      Edit: If you host legit content, like family videos… All of that can be leaked. If you don’t host legit content… and the public site gets probed and they identify the illegal content… expect to be named in a very large lawsuit… either situation is bad.

      Edit2: and hosting it behind a proxy that does it’s own auth would break ALL app-based jellyfin clients.

      • shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lolEnglish
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        2 days ago

        @joshuaboniface on Mar 8, 2021

        Thank you for this list. We are aware of quite a few, but for reasons of backwards compatibility they’ve never been fixed. We’d definitely like to but doing so in a non-disruptive way is the hard part.

        Holy fuck what a reply.

        • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comEnglish
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          2 days ago

          Yeah… ignoring potentially leaking peoples private videos for the sake of “backwards compatibility” is wild. No… When you find a critical flaw like that, you should be breaking compatibility purposefully in order to make people update to tooling/programs that support the new more secure functionality.

        • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comEnglish
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          2 days ago

          Would seem so. The project is open source, and nobody is getting paid. So the lack of update makes sense to some extent.

          As cool as it is… and as much as I want to make plex shove it completely. Jellyfin just isn’t ready for prime-time.

          I run both… Jellyfin isn’t allowed to talk outside of my network at all, and I can access it over my personal VPN… But Plex is where all my users are because anything else would just be too annoying to maintain.