Scrubbles @ scrubbles @poptalk.scrubbles.tech Posts 269Comments 5,800Joined 2 yr. ago
Too bad about bazzite. Maybe chimera? I think it's Debian based so it might be slightly better. I've always liked pop, but I use it desktop, and it's just a fork of ubuntu
After posting, I get that deep now
Just because I'm not affected doesn't mean it's not enshittification, and removing functionality that was free for over a decade.
That's essentially my point of view. Plex enshittified. I was angry at how they handled the enshittification, throwing my users into a flurry, but I'm also not surprised that they're doing it.
I'm glad I'm not the only one. I'm getting a lot of vitriol here from people saying "Well your users are idiots", or other angry things. No, my users are family members, and not everyone needs a degree in CS to be able to connect to a Plex server. A few of them are elderly. The email was misleading to them, on purpose. It threw many of them into a flurry. The whole thing was handled terribly by a company who keeps going out of their way to make it difficult for them already to simply watch my server.
I'd suggest trying Jellyfin out again. Personally I was in the same boat even just over a year ago, I wasn't impressed, but it's come a long way. It's absolutely not as polished as Plex, but if you can look past that I'm finding most of the features I need are there.
Plexamp is honestly amazing. I'm investigating finamp, but I know it won't be as nice. Them killing off the tidal integration did help the decision a bit though
If you consider paying a monthly fee for something that was free yesterday then I guess I'm wrong, go ahead and pay the subscription
Seeing how they now want 250 for lifetime Plex pass?! Over double what it was just a few years ago? Ridiculous, and us server owners haven't seen really any new features come out recently. Jellyfin was a bit fiddly at first, but I'm getting used to it, and enjoying it more now I think
It does, and I concede that, but they do nag you constantly about it. And honestly, if that was the case then I'd say they could charge on that if they were clear why they had to all of a sudden after 10 years, but then I would say it should just be a charge to use their relay network, and have it be easily opt-out able. Maybe a guide on how to set it up yourself
Yup, like why I bought Plex pass at the time. I was happy to pay for the good work they were doing. They had nice uis, their code was stable, and new features rolled out regularly. I'll happily be doing the same for jellyfin.
Plex wants people to pay now for the same functionality. Big difference in my book.
Oh god playon. They burned me hard, and were shocked when I turned them down for 3 free months of generous free subscription fees. Never even checked, did they crash and burn?
bingo. "Sorry, we know that this game was completely on your computer, but every time you start the main screen the update of the day actually hits our servers and costs us money. About 4 cents a day, but it adds up! No of course you can't just disable that, instead you will now need to pay us $5 a month to continue access. - Your friends."
Yup, read through this thread and it becomes clearer and clearer. and trust me, I've been a long time hold out, I've been through this many times - but this is the first time I've seen functionality removed from Plex to be put behind a paywall. And doing a price hike at the same time. Absolutely shitty. I've already migrated off.
Same. Their wording was obviously meant to push them into just buying the membership. They chose language that sounded like you have to buy it or talk to your server admin.
It should have been "Talk with your server owner, <
<Server owner name>
> to see if you need to purchase a subscription or not". Language like that would be very clear - but they chose not to do that.Or even better. <
<ServerName>
>, which is ran by <<ServerOwner>
> already has a plex pass subscription, you can continue watching without a subscription! Gee, how nice that would have been.Honestly what I've seen is that most of the security stuff is fairly overhyped. If you do even the bare minimum, like put it behind a reverse proxy, you're going to more than likely be fine
Uh it absolutely does. Bare minimum to do it is the exact same effort as plex. Forward a port.
I don't have an email, and I didn't get any notifications in my plex dashboard...
Well no, they notified everyone, and my users freaked out, rightfully so. One immediately uninstalled the app because of it. So, that trust is just gone. Then second, I'm angry that they're removing functionality that has been free for a decade for... reasons? As I explain elsewhere, there's negligible cloud overhead for it. If this was a new feature that was locked behind plexpass or something - fine. Removing functionality I can't get behind. Sure, my server would keep working, but this is the last straw for me. It's obvious what's happening over there, and my users don't trust it. So I'm out.
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