Was plex ever good or was it designed to be a rug pull?
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I remember being excited when it first came out, but then as we know capitalism happened and ruined it. Im all jellyfin now. But was plex originally starting out to be a good thing or was it just to trick us into being locked into their service after we all got on it?
Plex is still fine for me. I have Apple stuff (Mac, iPhone, Apple TV) so my options are basically Plex and Infuse, and Infuse is fine, but expensive to own. Or you pay $10 a year which is more than fair, I suppose. But Infuse can't be used outside your network, and it doesn't sync show progress with Plex. Used entirely on its own without Plex is how it's meant to be used (as a server and client as opposed to client to a Plex server, though that way works too, albeit with weird limitations). But Infuse still can't be streamed outside your network.
Jellyfin exists on Apple stuff but it's not very good. The server seems fine, but the client takes a lot more to set up and it's not as straightforward as Plex. And you have to jump through more hoops to use it outside your network.
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be weird and hook their computer up to their TV
What's weird about that? It's just a monitor with built-in speakers. Seems weird to me to spend the extra money on those when the TV is already there.
Having a media-center PC is highly underrated.
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be weird and hook their computer up to their TV
What's weird about that? It's just a monitor with built-in speakers. Seems weird to me to spend the extra money on those when the TV is already there.
I don’t think it’s weird but I’ve been called weird a few times for doing it.
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I remember being excited when it first came out, but then as we know capitalism happened and ruined it. Im all jellyfin now. But was plex originally starting out to be a good thing or was it just to trick us into being locked into their service after we all got on it?
It was already mediocre, but it's gotten worse as they have enshittified
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Plex used to be good. If you wanted an easy way to share content with folks who didn’t want to be weird and hook their computer up to their TV it was the only game in town.
wrote last edited by [email protected]This is the only way I use my TV. I have no interest in live programming. I am a Kodi user.
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Soo it was the c suite that wanted it to go the way of netflix?
As always is
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This is the only way I use my TV. I have no interest in live programming. I am a Kodi user.
Me too but that sorta breaks down when you have non-technical people in the house and/or more than one TV.
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I remember being excited when it first came out, but then as we know capitalism happened and ruined it. Im all jellyfin now. But was plex originally starting out to be a good thing or was it just to trick us into being locked into their service after we all got on it?
Plex is still good, I've been running it for a decade. It was incredible when I started using it and they've added improvements I wanted in that time. I'm not too arsed about some of the recent additions, but I've never not been able to disable something that I didn't want
Jellyfin is good too, and I'd probably pick it if I was starting a new server today, but I've yet to actually experience anything negative from Plex, and still feel like I got value for money.
Possibly big caveat: I got a lifetime Plex pass ages ago, I've not paid attention to what they're charging in a long time.
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be weird and hook their computer up to their TV
What's weird about that? It's just a monitor with built-in speakers. Seems weird to me to spend the extra money on those when the TV is already there.
Lol it was weird because you were a social outcast long ago if you use a computer instead of cable and now if you don't use your phone and you use your PC you're weird
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Plex is still fine for me. I have Apple stuff (Mac, iPhone, Apple TV) so my options are basically Plex and Infuse, and Infuse is fine, but expensive to own. Or you pay $10 a year which is more than fair, I suppose. But Infuse can't be used outside your network, and it doesn't sync show progress with Plex. Used entirely on its own without Plex is how it's meant to be used (as a server and client as opposed to client to a Plex server, though that way works too, albeit with weird limitations). But Infuse still can't be streamed outside your network.
Jellyfin exists on Apple stuff but it's not very good. The server seems fine, but the client takes a lot more to set up and it's not as straightforward as Plex. And you have to jump through more hoops to use it outside your network.
That seems odd cause jellyfin on linux is dead simple. You'd think apple would also be.
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Yeah that was definitely a fad. I still dont mind trading and buying cs skins once in a while but it is in no way a real money maker.
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I use Plex - but almost exclusively for music streaming through PlexAmp, very little in the way of TV/movies.
What's so bad about it? It works well for me, but if Jellyfin is much better I might investigate.
Privacy concerns and the fact that they now make you pay to access your own media remotely.
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It was really good in the past but their business model was unsustainable, so they put in more and more bullshit. Parts of it are still better than Jellyfin like cross-platform support and some of their clients like the music player.
Yeah plex was awesome when it was just a fork of XBMC but it’s just another story of someone taking an open source project and privatising it to enshitify it.
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Privacy concerns and the fact that they now make you pay to access your own media remotely.
Ah ok, thanks.
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I remember being excited when it first came out, but then as we know capitalism happened and ruined it. Im all jellyfin now. But was plex originally starting out to be a good thing or was it just to trick us into being locked into their service after we all got on it?
Bought lifetime membership 11/12 years ago. Never had a problem. I need a VPN with dedicated IP to deal with the double NAT from my ISP, but I wouldn't have it any other way.
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I remember being excited when it first came out, but then as we know capitalism happened and ruined it. Im all jellyfin now. But was plex originally starting out to be a good thing or was it just to trick us into being locked into their service after we all got on it?
Good question to start a circle jerk.
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I remember being excited when it first came out, but then as we know capitalism happened and ruined it. Im all jellyfin now. But was plex originally starting out to be a good thing or was it just to trick us into being locked into their service after we all got on it?
Plex is great. If you have ever supported the company by buying a lifetime pass nothing has ever been “rug pulled”.
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I contracted at plex for 6 months. The employees really care. The developers were very concerned with making the absolute best media server possible. The QA team was doing crazy stuff to try to keep everything working.
How long ago? Because it looks the MBAs are in charge now.
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I remember being excited when it first came out, but then as we know capitalism happened and ruined it. Im all jellyfin now. But was plex originally starting out to be a good thing or was it just to trick us into being locked into their service after we all got on it?
Rug pull IMO. Just use kodi
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I remember being excited when it first came out, but then as we know capitalism happened and ruined it. Im all jellyfin now. But was plex originally starting out to be a good thing or was it just to trick us into being locked into their service after we all got on it?
wrote last edited by [email protected]I had never seen anyone seriously praising Plex as good until I came to Lemmy. There are so many better tools that are completely FOSS. Hell, the in-built filesharing in most OSs are all you really need. My whole media server just runs off SAMBA. I can access it anywhere from anything.
