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In search of a self-hosted messaging client for my Jellyfin users (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Good morning /c/selfhosted!
I run a Jellyfin server, complete with Jellyseerr, Sonarr, Radarr, the works. This has been a fantastic learning experience, and I've learned so much about networking, docker-compose, and what terrible tragedies and lost work can occur when you do not RTFM.

Now that it is up and running and stable(ish), I have invited friends and family to the instance. It is securely attached to my domain, and currently I have about 12 users.

Now, I have run into an issue: I need a centralized way for them to get notifications on new content and their requests being fulfilled, and a centralized way for all of them to contact me. Right now, it's a messy combination of sms/email/discord/phone calls.

My thought: I would love a self-hosted messaging client!

I'm wondering if anyone knows of any messaging clients that meet the following criteria:

Grandma-level user friendliness, if possible
One-way multi-user broadcast option
Jellyseerr integration, or some back-assward way to get it to work with one of Jellyseerr's integrations
little user-to-user communication

Ultimately, my goal is the following: An app that I can use for users to submit questions and bug reports, and that I can use to broadcast news and updates, downtime notifications, and other messaging. Ideally, one that supports a "bcc" option. An additional caveat is that the users should not be able to easily find and message each other, I don't need my conservative coworkers meeting the queer ass polycule that makes up 20% of my users.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This exact situation is why I eventually shut down access to my media server to only my household. I had the same setup for many years and it just got to be a clusterfuck of people messaging me that things were broken, not working how they wanted, need to have more features, aren't working fast enough, etc. I work in IT. I get enough of that when I'm clocked in, I don't need it at home too.

Good luck though, OP.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Hah! I am in exactly the opposite situation, I'm trying to get people to tell me about broken things MORE because so far they just feel like they're bothering me if they let me know. I want to give them an easy path to do so.