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by wiether 8 days ago 

  > and has full Postgres support from the get-go
I was like: why should I care?

Then I went on siloserver's website and I was even more confused.

What made the success of Plex is how easy it is to setup, how nice it looks and how easy it is to use.

Siloserver's marketing miss all those points because they focus on the tech stack, don't show a single picture of the UI and don't demonstrate the UX.

Even as someone who understands the tech written on the website, I don't see the point. So I can easily imagine how someone without the technical knowledge would feel about this...
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radcod3 8 days ago
Agreed, the only UI demo I could find was in https://github.com/Silo-Server/silo-apple

I'm thinking of trying it out though to see if there's any noticeable differences in performance etc.

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evulhotdog 8 days ago
As I mentioned it’s pretty new and the server doesn’t even have a tagged or release version yet. Take a look at the repo activity: https://github.com/Silo-Server/silo-server/graphs/commit-act...

Marketing is not really the important bit at the moment when they’re working on building things from the ground up.

I was just mentioning it because it’s a new contender to the space, changing the status quo. Always a good thing in the OSS world.

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gorbachev 8 days ago
You'll understand when/if your Plex media library grows so large that every rescan takes a week.
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wiether 8 days ago
I currently have 10Tb of 1080p content and rescans takes a few seconds. The only thing that actually takes time is the intro detection on new content, but it's because I don't have a lot of compute power on the server hosting my Plex instance.

I just checked: my "com.plexapp.plugins.library.db" is 24Mb. Meanwhile, I have some custom apps with SQLite db's that are >10Gb and I don't have performance issues.

So I don't see how big a library have to be for its db to become a bottleneck?

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nickthegreek 8 days ago
That would be considered a small library compared to what silo is designed for.
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zparky 8 days ago
dear lord, what kinda size are you talking about? in terms of TB/# of shows/files?
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nickthegreek 8 days ago
PB.
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TiredOfLife 8 days ago
It's much easier to run for profit media servers with proper big db support
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