I was waiting for this story after I saw that on my inbox.
Waiting until “plex pro” and they slowly sunset features on the original plex lifetime pass.
this post was submitted on 21 May 2026
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Existing Lifetime Plex Pass memberships are unaffected by the upcoming price hike; if you already locked in your sub at a lower rate, you won’t have to pay any additional fees, and your service isn’t changing
For now.
It’d be mildly annoying to have to switch to Jellyfin, or some other option, but I have no qualms ditching Plex if it turns to crap. Don’t ever give into the sink cost fallacy.
I moved to Jellyfin a while back and I've really enjoyed it. Maybe not better, but on par with Plex in most respects.
That's the thing: it doesn't have to be better since it's 100% free. It could be considerably worse and still be the better choice for the price.
The fact that it's mostly on par is absolute gravy.
Very good point. I definitely moved over in protest of Plex's rug pull, so fuck them.
The only reason I'm still using plex is the smart TV I have doesn't support Jellyfin.
Time to set up a Linux stream box that does support it (and whatever else I want).
Roku has a jellyfin app. In case you didn't want to setup up your own Linux stream box
Yeah a cheap Roku box or stick will run a jellyfin or emby client. I run these.
Though I know some people are complaining about Roku lately, their connection requirements etc. I wished there was a Roku equivalent that was open source. Like an open source clone of the Roku OS you could flash on to Roku hardware. Or jailbreak it or something.
Shoutout to Emby!!
Roku added like 4 new ads on the homepage recently in canada
There is the HDMI pi cm4 carrier board and projects like OSMC (Open Source Media Center)
Time to set up a Linux stream box that does support it (and whatever else I want).
This is the way. I made a tiny PC to use with my dumb TV, and I can’t understand why anyone would do anything else (except for laziness, I understand that).
I plan on replacing it with the steam box, if it turns out to be functional for streaming.
Not sure what tv that is but some have clients that can be side loaded.
It’s probably a Samsung Tizen model TV. Samsung has a few different TV OSes, and apparently the official app for the Tizen model has been caught up in Samsung’s internal approvals process for literal years now.
The Jellyfin official app for Tizen TVs has been available through the Samsung store for several months now.
I was considering a Plex sub to make things easier to share my collection with family and friends who aren’t tech savvy enough to sideload stuff and the second that the Tizen app was approved, I closed the Plex chapter of my life forever.
There now is a real app dor samsung tizen and before that you could sideload one from github (though thats a different flavor of technical then a docker server)
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It's a US-American company, of course it will turn to crap. Enshittification is everywhere.
This has little to do with the country it’s based in and everything to do with the economic system it exists in.
Sure, but on top of a horrible system, the US also shits on privacy, personal rights, people,...As a bonus kinda. Also the worst of the worst of the companies that fuck this planet raw and kill the web and the future for us all, are US-american.
No doubt. Just saying If you’re in the capitalist world, it’s coming to you too.
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Why not run both? It's what I do. Then if there's an issue with Plex you can use Jellyfin. Running both has helped friends who have an issue with Plex as well, and not needing to rely on their auth has been nice when they've had issues with it
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wdym "borderline"
Jumping to $250 USD was borderline... $750 fucking crossed that point and took my job! (Referencing offensive like AI)
I just don't understand why they don't stop offering it altogether. This price hike shows they can't really afford to offer it at all. Just stop. It's okay. You don't have to keep providing this service tier to new users.
They don't want it but still want to offer an option for it... its just a complete ripoff at that price though.
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Fym "borderline"??
Right?
Bruh just use jellyfin. Using it for over 2 years w/o a hiccup.
Do you host it locally or in the cloud? Can you use it while traveling? /gen
not the commenter your responding but yes with proper setup travel is no issue.
I've never tried to host in the cloud so I have no input on that, but locally + tailscale is very doable and pretty dead simple to setup and manage.
I would highly recommend the linuxserver.io docker image. with a modern cpu and the docker image, transcoding won't be too much of an issue with most titles and only one or two users. my server has media only in hevc, so some clients need transcoding. my 3700k is perfectly fine with it.
if you want to expose it to a domain you gotta be a little more careful, reverse proxy + an external auth provider like authentik at minimum is what I would suggest. fail2ban and anubis are also great ideas.
I have it on my n100 mini pc server in docker. I expose it to the open internet through a reverse tunnel (Pangolin) hosted on a VPS in my city. It is secured by crowdsec and geoblock whitelist mode. I can access it from anywhere in my country. If travelling abroad I will just whitelist that country. Me and my gf do watch parties on it in 4k while simultaneously my brother and sis in law watch something on it on their TV. Bandwidth is not a problem at all. The only hiccup that might come is while transcoding multiple streams. You need capable hardware for it. It hasn’t impacted me yet.
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This is why I have Jellyfin.
I love being able to post this yet again:
I have a lifetime Plex pass I got during a big sale like a decade ago, at 1/10 the price they are raising it to. I haven't used it in about 6 months and never plan to even log into it again. Jellyfin 4 life!
I mean, I also have a whole bunch of windows keys from old MSDN accounts and stuff, but I am sure as shit not going to install Windows on my machines just because I can!
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This is one of those situations where they’ll jack the fee up. Wait for everyone to stop pissing themselves. Then become heroes for listening and lowering it to the halfway point between the old few and the new one.
It's to push people to buy "before it goes up."
After the date then they can heavily discount it "for a limited time."
LOL. As if I would pay these clowns for access to booty that I've captured from the high seas.
Jellyfin is what to use.
Hey, remember when you bought a 'copy' of software? And it was yours to use for as long as you like? Subscriptions are the worst.
Bought it when it was a reasonable price but switching to jellyfin anyway. Fuck late stage capitalism.
Bye Felicia
I would guess that their seed cap is looking for payback, or they realized that the lifetime plans are going to put them out of business.
They're running really high operating costs, live service (that no one wants) with commercials (no one wants) trying to compete with people that could stand up that same piece of content from pirate source in two minutes with no ads.
It'd be different if they just cached tvdb, epg, and provided low rez proxies, and kept basic features, they could live for a really long time.
They can't pay for the mess they're making trying to make more money :)
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