This year, DigitalOcean’s Hacktoberfest is in it’s 10th year. In previous years, we haven’t made too much of it, but within our project, this is our most important year yet.

We’d like to call on you, the wider community, to help make Jellyfin better! We need contributors, fresh ideas and blood to help the project move past our current funk and into something more.

Will you join us?

We keep a close eye on the buzz about Jellyfin around Reddit and the Internet more broadly; in the last couple weeks we have seen a few major Plex-related kerfufles and the comments inevitably include the following exchange:

Person A: Use Jellyfin instead
Person B: Jellyfin sucks, it lacks client X or feature Y
Person C: Works for me
Person D: It needs polish and more apps

Sometimes one of us will jump in, but I think it’s high time for us to make a public request for something that’s been on our minds as a team for quite a while.

For those who are not aware, Jellyfin is a bit unusual, even within the FLOSS world. We are explicitly anti-commercial. Our team is entirely composed of volunteers who contribute because they like what we’re doing and can help out in whatever ways they can. This includes developers, translators, and community members who help moderate the community and assist others in troubleshooting and working through problems.

No one gets paid for Jellyfin work, by design. We’re not backed by any company or “organization” with its own agenda. We have no “monetization plan” or anything of the sort, and actively