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I have a lifetime subscription to Plex. I hate everything they've been doing over the past few years. They're completely ignoring their existing users in the qu

I have a lifetime subscription to Plex. I hate everything they've been doing over the past few years. They're completely ignoring their existing users in the quest for growth. * Social sharing stuff that shows what you watch to others by default. * Adding their streaming services and other paid services. * Changing the UI layout to hide self hosted content, promote paid services, with poor UX for changing it back. * Ignoring bugs that have been known and unfixed for years. * Ignoring user feedback, doubling down on their poor decisions.

TheCondor 9mo ago
Are they that terrible, or is it the market and those of us with our own media are becoming more of the minority? I do question, at times, the amount of effort I put in to curating and backing up and maintaining our media. I too have a lifetime subscription, I don't mind a lot of what they do, but it feels like our media has become less centric, they want to stream pluto.tv channels and stuff like that. The biggest thing I dislike was how I had a single app to all my media and then they blew that up and I need multiple apps. It's not that big of a hassle; I just wish I had more heads up to when it was going to happen. And while I'm not aware of them having any music-streaming media, the music app ever only streams my own media and feels like it might be on life support. Maybe music streaming is "done" but it feels kind of neglected.
- driverdan 9mo ago
  > Are they that terrible, or is it the market and those of us with our own media are becoming more of the minority? That's what I was implying with saying "existing users." It seems they're caring less about their self-hosted core userbase and trying to expand to other types of users.