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No Native Broadcast Notification System for Self-Hosted Media Servers

Hobbyist operators of self-hosted media servers (e.g., Jellyfin) lack a built-in way to push announcements to all users about maintenance, restarts, or feature changes. The problem is felt by small private server admins managing a loose social circle of users with no shared communication channel. Without a native notification mechanism, admins resort to ad-hoc messaging across different platforms, which is inconsistent and easy to miss.

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