Plex isn’t perfect by any means but giving them $100 8 years ago was not unreasonable. If you get a ton of use out of Jellyfin then you really should be giving them at least that much for building you a media center with all those features. The alternatives are much more expensive than that. Also, software doesn’t develop itself. Give back to the people who make your life better or prepare for them to stop doing so.

I bought a Plex lifetime subscription 13 years ago. I think it was about $75-ish. It worked fine, but they started getting more and more shitty.

I only want to share my collection across different devices on the LAN, and Jellyfin does that just fine.

Plex will soon charge you even more to stream your own media

Makes it sound like Plex is keeping your data (which let’s face it, is pirated anyway) behind a paywall, when in reality they are charging for the relay. It’s disingenuous to phrase it like that.

Now, I agree Plex is enshittifing, but let’s at least be fair in calling out the good and bad.

Some questions for he jellyfinners:

• can I make playlists
• can I shuffle them

Basically: I want [adult swim]