I know I kind of made a wall of text over a simple question! I would have skimmed too.
TY for the reply regardless, really JellySeerr is the thing that I want to integrate with a two-way messaging client that has a facebook-messenger-like UX, as that is the most approachable for anyone that is on the server (and seemingly everyone on the planet that has lived in the 2020's).
I agree, I think the consensus in this thread is definitely Matrix, and I have had my eye on it for a good while anyway. I'm up for some new learning tasks. Do you know if it's possible to restrict what users sync with my matrix instance?
I think you are right on the money here, I appreciate the push to Matrix. I've had my eye on it for other things for ages regardless.
Hah, very fair. Trouble I'm having is that my friend group aren't the type to check their emails, so that takes care of grandma-demographic but does not take care of the "social media please fill my inbox" demographic. Matrix is definitely where I'm leaning, that has other applications for me anyway.
I have Gotify working now for one-directional, but the return channel is really the item I need.
That is definitely a thought! I think I'm going to take the recommendations from folks here to try Matrix, as I've wanted a bridge to replace Signal (now that it no longer supports SMS). If that fails, or becomes too tough for the users, I'll probably be doing Telegram!
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.
In search of a self-hosted messaging client for my Jellyfin users
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.