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There's been a steady stream of garbage "features" from Plex for a while and this is just the latest. Maybe the lifetime Plex Pass was a mistake but I bought i
by jmuguy 3y ago
There's been a steady stream of garbage "features" from Plex for a while and this is just the latest. Maybe the lifetime Plex Pass was a mistake but I bought it years ago and haven't wanted or used a single feature they've released since. A lot of folks using my server weren't stoked to get the email. I keep an eye on alternatives for when they finally push it too far. I'll bet that's going to be something like pinning one of these freebie streaming services to the top of my home screen and not letting me get rid of it. Or probably just some forced advertising somewhere.
- panick21_ 3y agoTotally agree. At least the base functionality is solid. Doing nothing would have been better.
- ilrwbwrkhv 3y agoAlways go free and open source like Jellyfin for any long term personal consumption. Anything else can be changed and you would have to change your long term habits.
- jmuguy 3y agoBack when I started using Plex the open source alternative was only XBMC. Plex just had the killer feature of being able to transcode correctly. But yes I agree, being a for profit closed source app has just been a pile of junk beyond the core feature set that was put out long ago.
- bsmith 3y agoI also have Plex Lifetime and was fed up with something or another and switching to Jellyfin was pretty nice and straightforward. I'd recommend as well if you have a free afternoon/weekend.
- kyriakos 3y agoSkip intro and credits features that were added last year were actually good.