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People who are staying on Plex, have you tried Jellyfin? What about it do you not prefer? (real question) (discuss.online)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Honest question, because I know multiple people who are not looking to jump ship since they already have the Plex Pass.

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[–] 104 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Lifetime subscriber when it was like $75 bux

Setup and runs on my NAS (unRAID) Uses a small GPU to transcode as needed Shared only with non technical family members

Has worked as is for YEARS.

So, the question is, am I looking for something to replace a working free (prepaid) solution I have? That answer is nope.

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

    This is my POV. It already works perfectly, is prepaid, and is accessible to my nontechnical users. Switching would be a major pain for a worse experience.

    Also, Plexamp.

    Someday in the future no doubt Plex will enshittify for lifetime users such that it will justify a change, but that hasn't happened.

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago

    +1 to all of this. I paid for it when it was $90 lifetime, before either Jellyfin was popular before I heard of it, who knows. It works fine. No reason to put extra effort into replacing something that I have no problems or qualms with.

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