Technology

It's still hilarious to me that Plex, a project forked from the XBMC (now Kodi) free open-source app for organizing and playing one's own entirely legally obtained video files, is a big streaming business thing that charges people money.

It's like finding a tree in the forest that gives out infinite free apples, and then setting up an apple-selling table right next to it stocked with apples you obviously got from that tree.

Sigh. I still enjoy my Plex pass that I bought for < $100 but this is another sign to bail on them. I don't particularly like them trying to further monetize my collection.

I do like the ease of sharing with friends and it does generally just work. But this is bad.

And the software doesn't even work right most of the time anyway. It's easier to set up a file share and run it in VLC.

Jellyfin: free Cloudflared: free

This is almost certainly a ploy to get an influx of buyers before the cutoff of July.

They want to round up all the people that they think were considering a lifetime pass, but were holding out.

I guarantee you when July comes they're going to reduce the cost to somewhere less than $750 and much closer to the current price due to "we listen to our customers" when really it was the plan all along.

They're using the Decoy Effect and FOMO.

Wait, ya'll are paying for Plex??

As always, donate to the FOSS alternatives instead.

In the case of Youtube Premium, donate to Ad Blockers instead.

Digging their own grave

What a joke. Plex isnt worth paying for

Yep, definitely heading for bankruptcy.

Hmm, perhaps I should sell my lifetime pass. I won't, but I should. (Switched to Jellyfin long ago)

To be clear, you still need your own HW and electricity, right?

Jellyfin Lifetime Pass continues to be better value.

As if there weren't enough reasons to use jellyfin already.

Jellyfin

Welp, looks like I'm never buying, and therefore using plex