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Plex Announces Massive Price Hike on Lifetime Subscription Plans (www.ign.com)
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Plex has announced a massive price increase on the service's Lifetime Plex Pass. On July 1, the lifetime subscription option will go from $249.99 to $749.99, an increase of 200%. The price hike will only apply to new subscribers, with no changes to monthly or annual subscription pricing.

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[–] 163 points 4 months ago (59 children)

A gentle reminder that Jellyfin exists to those thinking of alternatives.

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  • [–] 36 points 4 months ago (30 children)

    For free (FOSS), and is way better than Plex

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  • [–] 21 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    If you use it weekly it shouldn't be free to you, certainly if you use it more frequently than that. Give money to the projects you depend on or they will disappear.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago

    Supporting software that you use by paying for it?

    Ew.

    /kidding

    I’m a very happy lifetime membership owner and have zero problem with them removing features from the free version. Free doesn’t pay the bills unless you want to become the product.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    You find a place on jellyfin.org where they take donations? I was looking last night and only found a link where you could contribute your time.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (23 children)

    If you ignore the mostly horrendous UI, the security problems, the worse transcoding performance, the harder setup, the difficulty to access it remotely in a safe way,... Yeah sure, way better

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (17 children)

    The ui can be improved with community addons like moonfin but i agree it would be nice if they improved these out of the box

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (16 children)

    I couldn't care less about the client design, since you have free choice there. If only the devs could be arsed to fix the issues that prevent me from just putting it behind a reverse proxy. If I could let people use it without exposing what is essentially an open door or forcing them to install a vpn, I would probably do that and slowly ween off Plex

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (4 children)

    Plex doesn't have hardware transcoding unless you pay almost 800 euro

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    I, and I assume everyone on this forum who has one, paid around 50-100€ for their lifetime pass. My hardware encoding works great and doesn't need me to tell it about each and ever codec in existence and how to handle each one.

    The new price is insane, but that was not the topic of this thread.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    A gentle reminder that Jellyin more or less requires you to set up a reverse proxy and a secure VPN to use it outside of your home.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Why would you not do that anyway?

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago*

    Because if I'm watching locally I dont need them, and if I'm watching remotely Plex already offers secure remote viewing 'out of the box`. They give every user an SSL certificate and a public accessible URL at app.plex.tv. They also handle secure user authentication. The new price is stupid, but Jellyfin is not a 1:1 replacement.

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