The problem is the "lifetime" option, they needed to just stop offering it.

The optics of making it prohibitively expensive instead is just terrible.

It used to "pay for itself" after 3.5 years, now it takes over a decade. I don't think they understand most people were buying it before (as in a decade ago) as a form of donation to a software that didn't have a good alternative.

Now that Plex is trying to become a media streamer themselves for a revenue stream, and alternatives like jellyfin exist for what made Plex popular....

They should have just sunset the "lifetime" deal

trying to squeeze as many people for the current price as possible. will probably run deep sales close to today's price in the future.

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Corporate retreat is a hellish nightmare? Familiar.

yeah I was confused by that too, the article was published today but the first sentence says it happened 2017

The story comment said this news is from nine years ago.

Theres no way I go through that without a massive chip on my shoulder. Like ya'll better give me 2 weeks paid vacation or I'm fucking sabotaging anything I can.

It's good that the CEO recognised it went wrong, and didn't try to brush it under the carpet. It sounds like the team sort of got into it too, and I bet they have some great stories for the company christmas party.

Murphy's law in action, damn.

Beware this breaks transcoding for LG tvs. You get audio, subtitles, and a black screen

They made it no longer maintained by the clients, but it's still functional

IIRC, Plex dropped they watch together feature.

Same experience for me. I teetered on the edge of "Was it worth it" and now I think yes, yes it was - but it was not as easy as the bros here say when they comment "Just switch to jellyfin"

I swapped to jellyfin and it was worth it but it was a lot of work. I had to pay for a static ip, set up my home network properly, and redo all my metadata. and months later I'm still finding missing or incorrectly tagged media. plus it doesn't auto update. also I had to tell my friends and family to download a new app and make logins for them.

Not arguing with any of that. For me personally it was enough for me to switch and it was worth it

My non-commercial relationships are fine. I just don't have the time or energy to teach non-self-hosters the ramifications of me connecting tailscale or wire guard on their machines.

I guess you get a star sticker? Good for you that you have a solution that works for you, however it won't work for most folks, and that doesn't make them morons.

Strange, Jellyfin doesn't log me out that often. Maybe a configuration difference?

I've heard about Jellyfin's security before but my, admittedly limited, understanding is that it's pretty limited in what an attacker could do. Granted I host behind tailscale anyway.

What's Plexamp and Tautulli?

I disagree. What if you want to rewatch some old obscure show? Also I share my server with a bunch of people, it would be very hard to keep track of what everyone wants to watch with an on-demand system.

Also streaming services removing shows is one of my pet peeve, so I'm really against deleting anything.

As someone with too many shows and movies on my Plex, I agree with his methods.

My life would be simpler if I torrented, watched once, and deleted.

Yeah, so like.. those are mostly pretty big problems for me -and likely a whole lot of people who might want to get off Plex- that I don’t have a clue what to do with without dedicating probably weeks of time to learning properly, so.. hard pass until the whole process is significantly safer or more streamlined.

This whole thing feels like this :p

Yeah. If they want to lick boot that bad, I may as well be talking to my fridge.

(Not you, the other guy)