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I was wondering how long before they dropped that other shoe.
I bought Plexpass when it was $70. Got my money out of it. The centralized login, ssl, caching and proxy are probably worth paying something for.
That said, I've mostly walked away from them over privacy concerns and an utter refusal to add community-requested features while removing actively used features.
Cue all the users with lifetime passes not seeing that this is slowly becoming a problem...
What do you mean?
To me the problem would be modifying the lifetime pass or simply removing it (for new customers) in favor of a fucking subscription only.
I would be very surprised if they don't go there eventually, and I'd even bet they'll try at some point to force lifetime pass owners to switch to subscription
If you ever think you've found a corpo that can be trusted, no you haven't
And whenever they do, I hope it's long enough in the future for jellyfin to get some much needed polish.
Exactly.
Practically every piece of "lifetime" software I've paid for has gone this route.
Abandoning streaming services only to become a serf of another commercial subscription service seems like such a bizarre move that I really don't understand how Plex users even exist.
I bought a lifetime pass for 100 bucks about 10 years ago, and have had 10 years of not having to give a shit about these announcements. I've saved well over 100 bucks on streaming services in that time. Worth it 1000%.
Seconded.
Bye, bye Plex!
What a shocking chapter of "Plex and the Quest for Investiblity!"
Great, so the free Plex now was downgraded to feature parity with Jellyfin
Oh fuck off, dipshits. You chose this route despite the community that built you.
They make more money off of FAST then they do self hosting own media. Of course they are going to care less and less about the self hosters.
I tried setting up Jellyfin a while ago, but ran into a lot of difficulties with TV show matching. Plex is a lot better at grabbing a pack of loosely organized files and understanding episode structure without renaming or moving files, which is great for continuing to seed files that are in the library.
I haven’t seen anyone discuss this, so maybe I’m doing something wrong? If not, this is the one major blocker that I have before rolling it out Jellyfin as an alternative to the people I’ve shared my plex server with.
Really want that in place because the writing seems to be on the wall (in flashing neon) about the direction Plex is going
I ended up using tiny media manager to move and rename all of my files. Fixes that issue.
I'm sticking with plex personally. I have a lifetime plex pass already so no one else needs a pass to stream from my server. Aka, this changes nothing for me or my users.
for now. I feel like it's only a matter of time before they say those lifetime passes are expired, or that the product has changes so much it's not valid, etc. they've proven they don't really care about the user base anymore, it's all about the money for them now unfortunately.
They care about their users but who those users are has shifted. They make more money off of FASS so that is who they care about.
This makes me glad I went with Jellyfin for my home server
Why not Emby?
Because I went with Jellyfin and it worked well... I don't know if I even checked out Emby, I'm not familiar with it, but I've had no reason yet to look for something else