Stop Screwing Around

[wilekcmc]

Top of the day to all.

I have been using Jellyfin for about two years now in one form or anther never realy being serourace about it. Currently, I am upgrading my Unraid server and would like to set up Jellyfin the right way, without overkill in plugins and with a nice theme. What is the best way of going about this? I was thinking about using the theme Abyss, or if someone has a better idea, please let me know. Plus, what plugins would work well with it?

Very Respectively

[TheDreadPirate]

A few tips:

1) Don't try to "unify" multiple apps into one UI. There are various plugins and add-ons that will try to unify Jellyfin's UI with Seerr or some other app. IMO, this results in a cluttered UI and poor user experience. And related to this....
2) Don't install plugins that modify jellyfin-web, which are required for #1. This can cause a lot of weird behaviors and it also prevents you from freely upgrading to the latest Jellyfin version as you have to wait for the plugin author to update their plugin for the next version.
3) Keep things simple. At the end of the day you want to watch your shows on Jellyfin, your friends want to watch shows on Jellyfin. If a plugin doesn't meaningfully add to that experience or meaningfully make administering your server easier, you have to ask yourself why you're installing something and think twice about doing so.
4) Backup regularly. Even as experienced as I am as a sys admin (17 years) and with Jellyfin (3 years), I've messed up or forgot something. Twice now I've borked my Jellyfin instance and both times the day was saved by a (daily) backup.

Checkout the themes sub-forum.

https://forum.jellyfin.org/f-themes-styles

Some of the forum threads are old, but the github that contains their themes are usually regularly updated.

[wilekcmc]

Thanks for your advice, I will take it to heart,

V/R

[coy]

I would recommend a docker automated install, no clickops, reproducible.
Themes, plugins are non-essential. Get JF stable and functional before adding frivoulous stuff.