Hello everyone!

I’ve had a homelab up for quite a while and would like to expand on that. I’m a major media person and I’m really wanting to put up a website that I can post movie reviews on.

It’ll be public, but really it’s only for my family/friends connected to my plex server. I’m constantly getting asked for recommendations and would like a centralized place they can look, and I can look back on upon a rewatch.

I’d really like to stay away from WordPress if at all possible - every time I’ve ever used WP, it always seems extremely slow after plug-ins are added and that’s really the only “template” I’ve seen.

Also, can you pull watch history from plex and display on a site? I’ve looked quite a bit for the movie Review page but haven’t really looked at the plex api. Really looking to pull watch history based on library/genre.

Currently set up with nginx proxy manager.

Thanks folks

    • CyanogenmonOPEnglish
      1•3 months ago

      This is close, but I’d like to be able to manually add text to each review (for my benefit really) and general x/y star reviews for them.

      Also it really wouldn’t need Auth - I’d be the only one actually editing the pages.

      • @[email protected]English
        3•3 months ago

        The screenshots show it’s not just a rating, you can add text to them. Am I misunderstanding you?

        • CyanogenmonOPEnglish
          2•3 months ago

          … I blame the kid’s sleep regression and my lack thereof.

          I’ll give this a shot, thanks!

      • HandlesEnglish
        2•3 months ago

        This is a screenshot from the github Repo that shows those exact features 🙂

  • @[email protected]English
    2•3 months ago

    It’ll be public

    Probably not a good idea to publicize the contents of your Plex server. And anyway, why not just use a forum or wiki?

    • CyanogenmonOPEnglish
      2•3 months ago

      Honestly I’m not super concerned about the contents being public.

      As far as a forum/wiki, I’d like it to look like it was meant for this job, those would be a little more on the hefty side just for posting some images/text to.

      I would build it myself but I’ve got a 4 month old. Not a ton of time to sit down in React.

      • @[email protected]English
        2•3 months ago

        I wouldn’t mess with react or other client side bling for this. Just keep it traditional. There are very light weight forum and wiki systems out there. Maybe Fossil ( fossil-scm.org ) could be restyled without too much pain. It uses about 2MB of ram.

  • adr1anEnglish
    1•3 months ago

    Movary comes to mind, and it can pull/ push info to accounts on third parties like tmdb.org