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I looked at adding a much-requested and not-that-hard-to-add feature a while back (allowlist-by-tag), got as far as figuring out where to add it in the server code… but bailed when I realized I’d need to shepherd PRs through at least two repos to get the feature delivered, while juggling both repos to do integration testing. Monorepos for tightly-coupled code are so nice…

Maybe I’ll give it another look.

[edit] incidentally, allowlist-based parental controls are one of the best tools to have, and basically nothing supports them, which is really frustrating.

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If nothing else, I’d encourage you to send them feedback on what makes you bounce off, as you probably weren’t the only one.

Hell it probably sucks for them too, but they’ve gotten used to the suck and forgot about it.

This is a huge problem with git/GitHub. Cross repo PRs could simplify this process. I've wanted this as a feature for nearly a decade.

Git and multi-repo were a mistake. Git’s packfile is a disaster.

Checkout Sapling and ReviewStack. They look promising.

What makes Sapling SCM different & an improvement over git; from a little googling it seems to be a skin over the top?

They’re a decent bandaid for a company already suffering from multiple-reposis. Cross-repo changes, stacked PRs. It’s not the ideal starting point but it’s less pain than the status quo.

Fwiw, Plex parental controls are absurdly flexible.

I have it set up so the kids account can only watch things that have been given a particular tag. Due to how granular Plex tags are, this means you can give them a whole movie or TV show, some of a TV show, or a single episode

As it is right now, they have access to a reasonably large corpus of content, but nothing new; every time I acquire a new episode of bluey or something, my wife wants to watch it first. We basically always approve it, since we aren't that likely to object to most things you'd find in a kids show, but it's nice to have the peace of mind

> every time I acquire a new episode of bluey or something, my wife wants to watch it first

I wish Jellyfin had something similar, as my current process involves manually tagging things with a tag that isn't visible, then removing that tag once I've reviewed it.

Is it possible to automate that via webhook or something similar? You could have whatever media acquisition program you use set that tag, and then remove it whenever you're done. Would eliminate 50% of the steps, until more granular abilities are added

I believe there's an API and I could maintain a microservice to do that for me, but there are probably a bunch of people who want a similar feature and don't want to have to run a microservice to achieve it.

I was frustrated about the allow-list for the longest time but someone on Reddit showed me how you can do allow-list on Plex. I forget the terminology (and you have to be careful because there are both tags and labels, I had been trying the wrong one) but you basically create a label and set the children accounts to only see content tagged with that label.

Plex supports allow lists and deny lists. Nice to be able to gate most movies by rating and then allow some others on a per-movie basis.

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