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• LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And also a good degree of bugs and enshittification

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  • MaggiWuerze@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I bought a lifetime plex pass once and have no issues since. HW encoding works out of the box, the scanners do their job and I can use their apps on every platform. I had to disable the Plex offered free movies once, the horror. Don’t act like Plex is some Google level shit of annoyance or ‘enshittification’.

    Jellyfin on the other hand has atrocious UI that basically screams the absence of any sort of UI designer into your face, the HW encoding is a mess to set up and the apps are a jungle of different 3rd party apps…

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    • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I never said Plex is google-level enshittification, don’t project words in my mouth. What is a fact though is that it is undergoing enshittification and that it’s a buggy mess and video transcoding might work for you, but it’s a well known source of pain for others. It could be better on Jellyfin too, but nowhere near as difficult to set up, even on weird/unsupported systems.

      UI screams no designer

      Idk what you’re on about, not even LTT Linus pointed out any issues with the UI and he is no Linux CLI wizard.

      If anything it’s far simpler to use than Plex because it doesn’t have the dark pattern bullshit into it.

      You load the app, you hit movies or TV shows, hit your favourite movie or TV show and play. It’s not complicated at all, no need to click past the various upsells and no need to buy battle passes just to watch a film.

      The only thing this supposed absence of a “UI designer” seems to have brought is the absence of upsells and enshittification/dark patterns.

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    • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Don’t act like Plex is some Google level shit of annoyance or ‘enshittification’.

      Close enough for me.

      The UI has always been pretty terrible to navigate but when they started trying to push all their streaming services I jumped ship. I don’t respect companies that don’t respect their customers.

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      • MaggiWuerze@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        What streaming services is plex pushing? They offer integration for other services you subscribed to like Netflix or Disney and they also offer free, ad based services that you can permanently hide with one button. And the UI? Jellyfin is so convoluted, especially the settings.

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  • the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wait plex or jellyfin? Both?

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    • curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Plex. Its been getting shittier for years.

      Meanwhile JF has been improving in leaps and bounds.

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    • golli@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Since he mentions enshittification, I assume he means Plex.

      However I am pretty sure both will have some bugs. I use jellyfin, so I can only speak about that. But one annoyance is that the androidTV app sometimes doesn’t have the best subtitle support. However it allows you to open movies in external players, which is a workaround.

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