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?
Well, enjoy your downgrade to jellyfin.
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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.
wrote last edited by [email protected]their business model was unsustainable,
So stop development, problem solved. Seriously, that's all anyone wanted. Just keep selling the mobile app, people will keep buying it. Update it once a year and don't change anything else. They probably could have continued to run everything with one or two developers.
It kills me that they took something good and turned it to shit rather than letting it be.
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their business model was unsustainable,
So stop development, problem solved. Seriously, that's all anyone wanted. Just keep selling the mobile app, people will keep buying it. Update it once a year and don't change anything else. They probably could have continued to run everything with one or two developers.
It kills me that they took something good and turned it to shit rather than letting it be.
That would have indeed been a better solution but I guess they didn't want to let people go? No idea.
A different solution would have been to release Plex 2.0 with significant improvements that people actually want and charge for that again.
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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]has the term rug pull changed its meaning or something? I think Plex did a regular technology capitalism: build the product and get a user base, and then ruin it by trying to turn a profit with it later. good for them, I guess. I don't use 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?
I still love it and use it everyday. The Plexamp app is fantastic and solved my music issues with limited space on my phone. The apps work great.
I tried to setup jellyfin twice, but it's just too much work to get it to function, and Plex took me 5 minutes.
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has the term rug pull changed its meaning or something? I think Plex did a regular technology capitalism: build the product and get a user base, and then ruin it by trying to turn a profit with it later. good for them, I guess. I don't use it
This is enshitification
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I never tried Plex. Just went with Jellyfin, so don’t know what I’m missing. Jellyfin works fine though.
Can you access it remotely?
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That seems odd cause jellyfin on linux is dead simple. You'd think apple would also be.
macOS is "certified UNIX," whatever that means. And I think Linux is a spinoff/knockoff of UNIX? I'm not clear on the history. I could find out if I were too concerned. But with as closely related as they are (Windows is the odd one out here, pretty much everything else out there is *nix), there's a lot of stuff one does that the other doesn't. Like Proton on Linux for running Windows games.
But yeah, the Jellyfin server works fine on macOS, but the apps are kinda hard to get working. Like it doesn't auto detect your server and it's not immediately clear what you need to put in to connect them. And the server app doesn't just volunteer this information freely. So it's not the kind of thing you can help people set up and share with them. Plex... is. Like seriously, I can say "just register for Plex and give me your account name or email." I add you to my shared users. Bam, you got all my content. It's that easy, and moving forward, anything put up as an alternative to Plex should be at least that easy.
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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?
Idk man, Plex has A LOT of features that Jellyfin does not. I tried Jellyfin fin for a bit but for me plex really is perfect
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It was always going to be a rug pull, they basically took XBMC and ffmpeg, made a "cloud" based front end for it and started asking people for money.
At no point was it anything other then an attempt to cash in on pirates. At some point I guess they realized all those "lifetime" subscription purchases would dry up and they started Partnering with or buying up other streaming content so they could at least pretend to be offering something else but that can only get them so far financially.
It might have been short sighted rather then an intentional rug pull, but obviously running a service like Plex requires an constant stream of funding, and when your loyalist users are the ones who paid a relativly small lump sum early on, it gets harder and harder to keep revenue coming in from new users and monthly subscribers.
Yeah the problem with Plex is that it's initial user base was just people who wanted to stream their pirated content, and the problem with that is that these people are also unlikely to pay for a monthly subscription when open source free alternative exists. Their best bet is to become a sort of new Netflix by getting rights to stream from multiple studios, people are tired of having to subscribe to multiple streaming websites and dealing with some of their janky interfaces and most of these services don't allow local storage of episodes and movies which would significantly improve the quality of their content, if Plex could offer secure local storage and streaming of content from multiple sources I would pay a monthly subscription for it. The only alternative that provides this somewhat is Prime Video letting you purchase access to non Amazon content, but I don't want anything to do with Amazon.
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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?
I've used plex a lot. I prefer it to jellyfin in regards to media mgmt. But them paywalling a non paid feature really pissed me off and definitely felt like a rug pull. All the assholes with lifetime Plexpasses will gloat because they don't feel any of the changes. But yeah, feels pretty shitty. I only used plex for my own self hosted content. Never cared about any of the streaming they offered outside of that.
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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?
IDK I use Stremio instead. I love it's simple, Netflix-like interface. And the fact that you can directly stream torrents from within the app. (did Plex ever get anything like that?) Just pick something and watch.