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Plex Announces Massive Price Hike on Lifetime Subscription Plans (www.ign.com)

submitted 14 hours ago by inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Plex has announced a massive price increase on the service's Lifetime Plex Pass. On July 1, the lifetime subscription option will go from $249.99 to $749.99, an increase of 200%. The price hike will only apply to new subscribers, with no changes to monthly or annual subscription pricing.

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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 103 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

A gentle reminder that Jellyfin exists to those thinking of alternatives.

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 10 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

As someone who picked up lifetime for like $45 or whatever it was (I think a 50% off sale?) what must have been 15 years ago...

I run jellyfin. Its just a better experience IMO.

[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 0 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I’m sorry but you can hate Plex and prefer jellyfin all you want, but you don’t have to lie. Nothing about jellyfin is a “better experience” than Plex.

What are some examples?

[–] FarrellPerks@feddit.uk 1 points 54 minutes ago

It doesn't cost $750.

[–] Mosfar@sh.itjust.works 27 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

For free (FOSS), and is way better than Plex

[–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 2 points 6 hours ago

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

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 14 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

If you use it weekly it shouldn't be free to you, certainly if you use it more frequently than that. Give money to the projects you depend on or they will disappear.

[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 4 points 6 hours ago

Supporting software that you use by paying for it?

Ew.

/kidding

I’m a very happy lifetime membership owner and have zero problem with them removing features from the free version. Free doesn’t pay the bills unless you want to become the product.

[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au -2 points 6 hours ago

It’s not better in any way other than cost. That cost comes with massive drawbacks.