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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 7 points 4 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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."

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 21 points 4 months ago (5 children)

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.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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, <> 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. <>, which is ran by <> 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

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Uh it absolutely does. Bare minimum to do it is the exact same effort as plex. Forward a port.

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