my lifetime pass for jellyfin cost me $0, pretty good value

Couldn't pay me to use that software lol

Used Kodi and now using Jellyfin.

I thought the last couple moves were the nail in the coffin, but this might be it 🤣

almost a fucking grand for a media server that you host yourself, and only really rely on their login servers for. Can anyone else say "enshittification"?

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.

I think software subscriptions are a scam, but I don’t mind buying a perpetual license that is only good up to a certain version with additional fees for newer versions. It’s also fair to charge a recurring fee for something that has recurring hosting costs like a VPN, cloud storage, etc.

If they weren’t such dipshits, the “lifetime pass” should have been a perpetual license you can keep using as long as you want, but charge an optional fee for newer versions if you want to upgrade and get more features. They should also have offered a hosted service to make your instance available to others and charge a monthly fee for that. I think people would’ve been fine with all that.

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.

Wow... Rough! I get they've "added value" over time, but they've also enshittified it too...

If only Jellyfin were simpler to setup for the masses...

Jellyfin Lifetime Pass continues to be better value.

Jellyfin: free Cloudflared: free

Turns out, lifetime is difficult to budget for

I saw this email and it just read as a desperate cash grab for a company that doesnt plan to be around in 3 more years. Pathetic.

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

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

Yep, definitely heading for bankruptcy.

Wait, ya'll are paying for Plex??

I paid... $74.99 for a lifetime plex sub in 2014. Is this the same service?

As always, donate to the FOSS alternatives instead.

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

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.

Time to set up Jellyfin instead!

https://gardinerbryant.com/plexs-lifetime-pass-is-basically-dead-heres-how-to-switch-to-jellyfin/

People still use plex?

And they'll likely "forget" you are lifetime as often with them as they did with us early adopters who got it for cheap.

There's a reason I use Jellyfin, now. Well, more than one.

Plex kept trying to charge me again, and every time I looked at it there was more clutter and spam being forced in front of my face by their "partners."

Kodi on device, great interface especially when you are using touch, if I need remote access I swap to Jellyfin. There's even plugins to sync between the two so your stats and history don;t get messed up by using both.

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

I have 2 Plex licenses I bought for something like $80 AUD each, but I then went and bought an Emby license and moved 6 months ago. I have tried Emby, Jellyfin and Plex. If anyone if curious on some feedback

1. Plex has the best interface, it is logical and everything works. That said, the stuttering on some the Apple TV on hdr /4k files for years without being fixed was the breaking point for me

2. Emby has some quirks in the player where some functionality isn’t logical, the android apps on a 4K Tele look terrible, but the server software itself is fantastic

3. Jellyfin does what it says on the box, but it is terribly slow to index and is very basic. I use it to host some music, but that is about it