The Service That Lets You Build Your Own Streaming Library Just Announced a Wild Price Increase
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The price of Lifetime Plex Pass plans will be increasing to $749.99 on July 1.

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.

  • MaggiWuerze@feddit.orgEnglish
    4·
    17 hours ago

    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

    • non_burglar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      12 hours ago

      This is a good illustration of the tradeoff of free software.

      Jellyfin is core software, its mission is serving media, not providing auth or secure access. Those can be handled by other projects.

      When you say “the devs can’t be arsed”, I think you’re misunderstanding that they won’t ever work on this, because that isnt the model.

      The tradeoff with “free” (both in terms of free speech and free beer) is that work you need to do yourself to connect those pieces.

      • MaggiWuerze@feddit.orgEnglish
        31·
        10 hours ago

        Lol, what an insane take. EVERY project that exposes an API is responsible for securing that. Its not rocket science, its server software 101.

        Being free is not an excuse, especially when there are perfectly valid migration strategies, that don’t force them to abandon legacy clients.

        Fans like you are the reason they get away with disregarding their basic responsibility

      • webhead@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        11 hours ago

        How are other projects going to handle using the Jellyfin app to log into Jellyfin? I don’t understand this. I see sentiments like this pretending Jellyfin is perfect like they don’t understand why people use Plex. I want to give my mom a URL that she can login to (or even better she gives me a code) after she downloads an app. What is the point of Jellyfin itself not handling this? It’s pointless. If I’m going to have a half baked server app, I might as well just use Kodi. They can be as stubborn as they want with this but people need these very basic things. I’d actually donate money to the project if they didn’t stubbornly REFUSE to do the main thing every Plex user wants. Other projects don’t need to do this. The Jellyfin developers need to. I first tried Jellyfin 6 years ago and this is STILL an issue and so I just stay on Plex because I’ve already got lifetime. I WANT to move to Jellyfin but I need to give normies access to my stuff and apparently that’s a wontfix for them?? I can host all this shit myself. I just need it all built in and for the apps to support it. I don’t think anyone is crazy to want this right?

        • Vinstaal0@feddit.nlEnglish
          1·
          21 minutes ago

          You just give those people the name of the app your recommend (Jellyfin, Moonfin etc) and give them the URL and their username, then they create a password.

          It’s not that difficult for most and if it is you help them once with it.

        • non_burglar@lemmy.worldEnglish
          23·
          9 hours ago

          What the hell.

          This is self hosted and you’re screaming about not having an easy button.

          As I mentioned, jellyfin is not an auth platform, nor a reverse proxy. And they will never be. Build your own, there are many products out there. Or hire someone, Christ.

          Either way, quit bitching, put on your adult pants and either add auth to jellyfin, use Plex, or shut the fuck up.

          • webhead@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            9 hours ago

            It’s not about what I can do. It’s about me having a gigantic headache ever getting this access on a TV. Please tell me exactly how that works for my users? Once this system leaves your house and needs normies to use it, everything is a headache I can’t host the TV app on my server. It needs to integrate with this authentication. I know how to run a reverse proxy. I’m not a moron. I do it for all my other services. That’s not a valid solution when the app CAN’T LOGIN TO IT. Lol. I don’t think this is that complicated. You seem to be willfully ignorant of how people actually use these apps. Once we’re outside my house, Jellyfin is useless outside a web browser. Period. It’s too much hassle for my users and all the self hosting magic in the world doesn’t fix that.

          • Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            21·
            9 hours ago

            Why are you being such a raging dickhead at this point?

            Like you’re right, but you’re being a a massive jerk to someone who wasn’t even the same dude you were arguing with before. Calm down breh.