Such a fun read!

Its way too hard to make plex work without internet

Oh well in that case I guess I'll have to abandon my principles and throw away 750 dollars of course!

/s

Fuck you plex. Ditched you a long time ago and it was obviously the right choice. If anyone gets money it's Emby. Yes I know about Jellyfin but it just sucks with HDR. Totally.

Wow, I got the Plex pass 15 years ago for like $70.

It is absurd to see it is over $700 dollars now.

I imagine it's to discourage the purchase of plex life time. But there's something about this that is feels so bad man.

I have spun up Jellyfin to run alongside Plex and I'm ready to switch over full time in case Plex ever goes after the old life time users. You just never know with these days.

And tbh, Jellyfin is pretty awesome. It seems to run lighter and faster than Plex. Nobody should be buying a $700 pass to watch your own content.

They gotta pay their corporate trips to Hondorus somehow https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/inside-a-corporate-retreat-that-went-very-badly-wrong/ar-AA20gPzT

@scrubbles @plex and all of this time since, they’ve still not put out the updated version of the Apple TV version which has been problematic for so many years with audio/video sync issues, etc.

Oh god I remember that. No one asked them to and they burned a ton of money to do it, shipped buggy, and arguably the design was worse.

We have Rokus on our TVs and ditched Plex as soon as a Jellyfin app became available

Oh yea? What if Plex releases an awesome feature and it takes jellyfin devs a month to add? What then huh?

/s

LOL, fuck off. I dropped plex for jellyfin as soon as they hid encoding behind a paywall and every time I see anything related I'm so glad I left them behind.

My goodness, I have my pass that I bought years ago for like €35, if I had to pay that I wouldn't even do it as a joke, I just hope they don't end up trying to squeeze more out of those who already have one, I've been trying jellyfin anyway just in case

Ya, I transitioned to an always on VPN a few years ago (VPN to my house, not one of those honeypot ones) so I don't even really need it anymore. But I paid something ridiculously low years and years ago. Whatever the price was before it moved to $75.

If I were starting from scratch today, I'd just build out Jellyfin instead.

They almost certainly don’t expect people to buy it at this price. They’re putting it out to pasture.

Give it a year or two and they’ll do an announcement that no one is purchasing lifetime licenses so they’re sunsetting the scheme altogether.

So instead of retiring it, we’re keeping it available at a price that reflects the real, ongoing value of the software we’re committed to building and maintaining for years to come.

I left Plex because of exactly this. What exactly have they delivered lately to actual users that isn't BS cloud streaming stuff?

There are almost no digital products that are worth a three digit price tag and this is certainly not one of those.

It used to “pay for itself” after 3.5 years, now it takes over a decade.

The cynic in me says that this also means subscription pass costs will be going up in the future too. So it may again "pay for itself" after 3.5 years with a $750 price tag for lifetime

if they thought the $750 price point would make them more money than $250, they would just raise the price. instead they're exploiting fomo and essentially admitting that the market has dried up but they want to continue to dangle bait for whales.

Hmm, I'm of two minds about this

On the one hand it's simply a ridiculous increase and pretty indefensible as a jump. Especially given that it doesn't really offer much you can't do for free with something like jellyfin

On the other hand at least they still offer a lifetime sub, crazy expensive yes, but the option is still technically there for someone who wants to use the software without subscription. Plenty of companies have gone down the sub only road, and I think we should give at least a bit of credit for them not doing the same, even though they'd clearly like to

I know audiophiles are a bit of an outlier in general, but Roon lifetime is even more IIRC!

Weirdest ad for Jellyfin I’ve ever seen

I don't get what the point of this is. I have never paid a cent for Plex. If I ever want to access my library remotely, I'll use something else.

As long as they honor the lifetime part I'm not bothered. I bought my over a decade ago for about $25-30 on sale.

They already taken 10s of millions in VC so whenever those investors decide it’s not profitable basically