Movie Review Site Opinions

https://lemmy.world/post/13021292

Movie Review Site Opinions - Lemmy.World

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

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?

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.

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.
GitHub - sbondCo/Watcharr: Open source, self-hostable watched list for all your content (movies, tv series, anime, games) with user authentication, modern and clean UI and a very simple setup.

Open source, self-hostable watched list for all your content (movies, tv series, anime, games) with user authentication, modern and clean UI and a very simple setup. - sbondCo/Watcharr

GitHub

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.

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

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

I’ll give this a shot, thanks!

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

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