In case this helps, for me when I use it on Android TV with said TV's remote, the arrow buttons on the direction pad for anything require pressing play/OK button after. But if I use the fast forward buttons, it does seek and then just keeps playing.

For me I just want a fast forward button. They have something they call fast forward, but it seeks instead.

Yes-ish, it's harder for you than the users. But you will have to secure a URL and they will have to remember that URL. Also there's some security issues with some unsecured endpoints on Jellyfin. That said I have mine out there exposed to the net and am comfortable enough with it.

You could just get a domain and set up a reverse proxy. Or use Cloudflare tunnels.

I moved away from plex as well. I do have remote access but had to set up Tailscale on the accounts that access it. It’s a bit of a hassle initially but works well.

no, tailscale is still the easiest option.

I set mine up with HAProxy for TLS offloading and ACME for the server cert. Restrict your access to just your country/region by GeoIP and you are pretty good to go.

Dude, yeah. Plexamp had me keeping my server up far longer than I should have.

Thats how I describe Jellyfin, it works fine, its just inconvenient to use.

For the love, as a Plex alternative, they don’t even have a native app on all major tv stores. It should be a P1 feature.

Are you really bitching this hard about a completely free and open source project?

It's not technology or finances that kill most FOSS projects and burn out the devs. It's this kind of shitty entitled unappreciative demanding attitude from users.

As others have pointed out, there are fully functional and good quality frontends available, such as Swiftfin.

I haven't used apple tv in a few years, but like, swiftfin worked just fine for me??

Swiftfin?

I believe Infuse has Jellyfin support on Apple TV. But they want like £100 for a lifetime license or £2 a month / £13 a year.