Best 70-ish euro I spent over a decade ago
Comment on Plex has paywalled my server!
MSids@lemmy.world 2 days agoFor software I like made by people getting paid, I was happy to pay the one time fee. It’s really good, secure, and downloads are fast now.
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 1 day ago
JasSmith@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Ditto. There is a crowd on Lemmy who seem to get angry whenever people are happy to pay for software and I do not understand it. Surely we want developers to be paid for their hard work? Don’t we want them to able to comfortably live?
MSids@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Agreed. I’ve stated it before in other threads, and I’ll say it again here, but if they asked me in 5 years to pay another $89 or whatever in continuing support for a badge on my server I’d happily do it. Plex is really good. Great UI, great apps, great external enrichments like trailers/subtitles/ratings/actor info, and Plexamp is 9.5/10 for music.
Their biggest fault is how they communicated about the change for remote users. I did have a few family members get the email and ask if they were going to have to start paying monthly now, but they’ve never been on a free server. They should have stated more clearly than if you were on a Plex Pass server that no change is required.