Oh, for sure. I get that they need to play the optics game and I (for the most part) am happy with Plex in its current state. I definitely agree they have to walk a fine line.
However, I think it’s inevitable that they’ll eventually go the way of every for-profit tech company and continue to water down their platform. I’d love to move to jellyfin but my previous run with it was much less smooth on the user side than Plex is. Hopefully in time it’ll be just as bug-free, but even then I’m not looking forward to onboarding all my users.
Idk, Plex knows Jellyfin exists, and they know that their server users are experienced enough to make the switch if needed. Without the people running servers, they are just a shitty Netflix spinoff in an already over saturated market.
I think the most likely route that Plex will take is the one they have already started to—exploiting the non-server-running users to accidentally make use of the streaming and rental services. I’ve had total dolts in my sharing community who were logged out for a month and then asking me why Plex had adds all of a sudden.
I’m somewhat ok with this. Users who can’t tell the difference between being logged in and logged out are going to get what they get. If they’d just make library the default view over recommended again, we’d be totally square.
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Oh, for sure. I get that they need to play the optics game and I (for the most part) am happy with Plex in its current state. I definitely agree they have to walk a fine line.
However, I think it’s inevitable that they’ll eventually go the way of every for-profit tech company and continue to water down their platform. I’d love to move to jellyfin but my previous run with it was much less smooth on the user side than Plex is. Hopefully in time it’ll be just as bug-free, but even then I’m not looking forward to onboarding all my users.
Idk, Plex knows Jellyfin exists, and they know that their server users are experienced enough to make the switch if needed. Without the people running servers, they are just a shitty Netflix spinoff in an already over saturated market.
I think the most likely route that Plex will take is the one they have already started to—exploiting the non-server-running users to accidentally make use of the streaming and rental services. I’ve had total dolts in my sharing community who were logged out for a month and then asking me why Plex had adds all of a sudden.
I’m somewhat ok with this. Users who can’t tell the difference between being logged in and logged out are going to get what they get. If they’d just make library the default view over recommended again, we’d be totally square.
I’ve done it. It wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be and I have some older people using it who are tech illeterate.
Good to know. Regardless, as much as I expect it to be inevitable I’m gonna put it off until I really feel the need.