Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

Been on jellyfin since day one. Works fine, UI is great and gets the job done. TV UI maybe not top notch, buy usable. Mobile UI just fine and usable.

Also, exposed on the internet (reverse proxy, OIDC, https the works) for years now with zero issues whatsoever as well .

There are a few users always throwing thrash on jellyfin, maybe pissed off users that paid for Plex, or Plex shills that like to denigrate jellyfin, I don't know.

Just ignore them.

Jellyfin is perfectly usable, yes you need to setup port forward, VPN or whatever, but it's exactly our target audience so move along and stop bitching, Plex shills.

Stay with Plex, use jellyfin, whatever fit your bill.

Anyway plex does not fit my concept of self hosting to be free from cloud lock ins.

I tried Plex once, before I knew about jellyfin. I just wanted an open-source self-hostable media server with my own media.

When I tried it, after installing Plex, I was presented with a login for a Plex hosted account. Iirc that was optional and I skipped it, after that came the nags for Plex pass. Piss off. That's exactly the opposite of what I wanted out of something like jellyfin.

who is this for?

those unicorn users who make 150k++ a year and pirate all their media and then wanna share it with their friends that they don't have?

I do wonder if this is a last ditch effort cash grab before they go under or a "we really thought we'd be acquired by now so now we have to plan ahead" move.

jellyfin: hey here i am you can have me for free. i even run on your own server.

You know that even if you paid that ridiculous amount, it still wouldn't be the last time they try to get money out of you, either.

Lifetime single pay subscriptions don’t make financial sense at all for a company. As much as I hate subscriptions, it’s the only way to get long term support, which software needs.

Jellyfin is always free, works great, and keeps getting better!

Wait what. $750? I think I paid like $100 years ago. Damn.

You'll retain your existing lifetime pass, fwiw. This is just price gouging new customers.

Even now - at the peak point of the Memory/SSD price bubble - about 1/3 of that lifetime pass buys you enough dedicated hardware to do it yourself for at least the next decade, probably more.

Hey guess what software I don't need to use

Plex works just fine without a subscription. What is the subscription even for?