Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing

njm1314@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Thing that has always been free for over a decade now suddenly costs a subscription even though there is no overhead to Plex

  Yeah, don’t care, scummy thing.

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• wheres_frank@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Exactly. I have a lifetime pass and everything works for me and the people I share my library with.

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  • ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    For now. Their most recent round of venture capital was 40 million and that was like the 7th one. Those investors are gonna be demanding returns if they haven’t already and they will eventually push to monetize as much as possible

    If plex works for you now then sure, don’t fix what isn’t broken. Jellyfin isn’t going anywhere and is just getting better, if anything holding off on migrating just increases the chances that migrating will be smoother. But guarantee you that in a certain amount of time plex will fuck over their customers

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    • MaggiWuerze@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I have Plex running alongside Jellyfin as well but opening up Jellyfin to external users is just not an option, since most of them won’t or can’t install a VPN on the devices they use to watch Plex on. And I sure as hell won’t open Jellyfin to the internet

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    • lepinkainen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’ve been running Jellyfin just for the metadata on the same library as Plex.

      If Plex goes full evil at some point, I can just shut it down and switch to Jellyfin.

      But for the time being the UX on Plex is so much better I can’t be arsed to switch. Especially since I got my Lifetime Pass like a decade ago for 79€ or something. I’ve got more than my moneys worth for it.

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      • AugustWest@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I run them side by side too. I also have plexpass from ahes ago.

        But I actually like the jellyfin ui better. It’s simple, to the point and most importantly fast. Sit. Down click jellyfin click show, go.

        Plex just feels laggy and sloppy in comparison.

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  • njm1314@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well it doesn’t take effect till later in the month so it working now isn’t really pertinent.

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    • CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If you as the server owner have a Plex Pass, everyone can stream from your server without paying. This removes the payment required for Android and iOS too.

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