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(Assuming you have a Plex pass):

1. Setup for Plex isn’t just easier, its basically non existent. Run the exe, point to folder, done. HW encoding just works, transcoding just works, metadata gathering just works.

2. remote streaming. No need to setup an elaborate VPN scheme and install a client for it on every device you want to have remote access. It just works and even punches through CGNAT and the like

3. Clients. Plex has a client for every system under the sun. No need for sideloading or anything like that, they are everywhere

4. UI. Plex has a sane and good looking ui for the streaming client and the admin interface.

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Jellyfin is not bad, but its just not a replacement for Plex. And the way the devs are acting, I doubt it ever will be

I also only paid 70€ for my Lifetime Plex, some 10 years ago. That was definitely worth it and continues to be, but this increase is pretty clearly a soft end for the lifetime licenses.

Would definitely have been the more honest approach

Because Jellyfin did not exist back then and does not have feature parity today? But I know you just wanted to show everyone how smart you are for using Jellyfin…

I, and I assume everyone on this forum who has one, paid around 50-100€ for their lifetime pass. My hardware encoding works great and doesn’t need me to tell it about each and ever codec in existence and how to handle each one.

The new price is insane, but that was not the topic of this thread.

What an eloquent response

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

Please tell me, oh wise one, how do you fix the glaring security issues that are the reason even Jellyfin Stans admit that you should use a VPN?

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

And Plex doesn’t require any. It’s okay to accept that one product can be more polished than the other, and Plex has a lot of stuff that “just works”

You should not expose a Jellyfin server to the open internet.

If you ignore the mostly horrendous UI, the security problems, the worse transcoding performance, the harder setup, the difficulty to access it remotely in a safe way,… Yeah sure, way better