Selfhosted

I got fed up one day with Plex because it blocked me from getting to my server from one of my televisions. My LAN's internet gateway was down and Plex was useless even though all the content was on the local network. I'm sure there's configuration things or something that I could have changed but in the end I decided I didn't want to be pressured into buying anything and I didn't like the constant commercialization of Plex.

So I installed Jellyfin and never looked back. Yes, it's missing a few features but you can get around that with nginx so totally worth it not to be harassed.

Are you runnin multiple subnets? If so you need to enable them all as local nets in plex or else it’ll trigger this.

its pretty fucking easy to use jellyfin on any device after you have it set up. most platforms have it in their app store.

Well that's one less customer they'll have, it's time to take your money elsewhere!

Edit: oh right.

And this is why I'm setting up Jellyfin. I paid for a lifetime Plex pass a while ago, and I would have been happy to toss them some more money if they had just stuck to the core service (like Nabu Casa/Home Assistant - absolutely worth $7/mo), but nooooooooooooooo Plex decided to spin up their own streaming servers and go down that path instead.

I smell an IPO coming soon.