The entire Plex Player team just got laid off and the currently released version of the player is in a completely broken state that literally won't play any 4K video. What the fuck is the company even doing? Are they about to declare bankruptcy?
>>110137086you can still give them money on their websitethat's all that matters
>>110137086Why don't they just vibe code the fixes?
Considering how dogshit it has become in the last year they were right to fire them. Maybe they can dig up a better group of jeets.
It's funny, they paid $500 to the guy who found a remote code execution zero day. That's it. What a bunch of Jews!
>>110137701he probably should have asked for more.
>>110137742Depends how much he paid in AI tokens to figure it out.
>>110137086>you get to watch Plex catastrophically die in real timeChrist above the last 2 years have been shit but this is just unbelievable. Very thankful I've begun hosting Jellyfin. >>110137701Is that really how they found out about their most recent server bug?
>>110137742>pay me or I wont reveal this vulnerabilityThat's blackmail you POS.
>>110138571Yep. 3rd worlder from Serbia dropped it.
plexsisters are you enjoying your lifetime subscription? seems it's run out LMAO
You know there's going to be people in this thread saying that they bought the lifetime subscription before the price went up and they're happy as is. Works on their machine. It doesn't need updating, and so on. The sunk cost fallacy is very high with Plex users. It's sad. It's like seeing an abused animal.
>>110138664EhuehueJellyfinners stay winning
lmao stupid faggots paying for software that's worse than free software
>>110138679they are gonna reach GME levels of cope soon
>>110138664please no bully
>>110138765Lucked out is more like it. There was a period of time between 2020 and 2024 where I Was using it regularly on the go, but that was more due to the fact that their streaming wasn't paywalled. Once that hit I switched to other, locally hosted alternatives. So ultimately, never paid for it or lost any real meaningful functionality when they started grubbing for shekels.
>>110137086I'm building the Plex killer and replacement right now in my free time. I will post it here when it's ready. You'll know it's me because the GitHub readme will have some good on the nose pokes at plex's decisions over the last few years.
>>110138679>>110138712You faggots always pop in and say this shit but it's always on threads and issues that not issues to lifetime plex pass holders. Usually the threads are about some feature being locked behind a paywall that lifetime users already have. In this case nothing has happened
>>110137086should had realized this when they jacked the fuck out of their lifetime subscription and sent shills here, they're in dire straits despite the shitloads of paypigs they have
Damn I was just thinking we haven't seen an HTPC update in a while.
>>110137086LmaoPaypiggies looking really stupid atm
>>110137086I have Jellyfin installed and tracking my library, but I still use Plex. I'm just waiting for an excuse to use Jellyfin full time. If they fired all those people just to replace them with AI I'm fucking done, bro.
>>110138955Hello mandatory Plex cope poster. Does a team of developers being fired, a fix not able to be merged, and one of those developers explicitly telling you it's time to move away from Plex count as "nothing happening?"You know this means no more features for the player ever, right? Does that seem like something a company who intends to keep providing you with their product would do?
>>110141685>Does my server still work?>Does sharing still work?>Did I lose access to something I had previously?Doesn't affect me until it affects me
>>110137701there's literally no point in participating in bug bounties. better off selling it to chinks for monero.
>used PLEX for about ten years>have had lifetime pass for about as long>only host my own media on a box with 24TB of storage>its externally accessed by family, mostly on mobile devicesShould I ride this shit till it dies or start preparing to explain tech to seniors again
>>110141685The player team should have been executed for making everything shit.
good they sucked in honduras
>be Plex>get rich doing one thing well>goodwill up the rectum>introduce things that go directly against that ("legal" streaming, price hikes, Android TV boxes from ISPs get served a gimped version of the app)>people move away to Emby and Jellyfin>money lost>double-down on newly introduced wank>people get fired>product goes down the plugholeThis might be one of the most retardedly run tech companies at the moment. Management fucked this one up massively.
They only had like 100 employeesthey had a sweet time could looked after everyone for life solid loyal userbasethe company didn't have to grow to become netflix sized or whatevernow they're charging crazy prices, shoving in ads and tv in a section nobody wants, now they're firing people shit was sweet then they fucked it all up
These days all you hear about Plex is bad
>ITT: anti-plex shills circlejerking about which software they like better>not ITT: any evidence of the company doing anything that will negatively affect its software aside from some random screenshot of a random forum postGreat thread, very /g/. I don't even use plex but you retards can't talk about it or any other media library software without projecting pure sour-grapes bullshit.
>>110137086I literally just use premiumize because I can't be bothered with shitty home media server software. I get it, they do a great job, I'm not saying they're shitty devs. But the company clearly is not run well.
lol this plexshit is finito
>>110142115>Skeleton crews are fine???
Plex's only point of difference is signing subdomain certificates which allow clients to securely find servers over the Internet with zero configuration. Any of it's competitors could spin up such a service almost trivially, but to-date none have.The day that comes, I'll shift off Plex. Or when Plex stops working. Whichever comes first.
>>110137086jellyfinchads stay winning
>>110137086Look at how shit the update was. The player is completely broken lmao... Are you actually saying they DIDN'T deserve to lose their job?It's so fucked that I just re-enabled Jellyfin and disabled Plex for now until they fix it. Pray to Allah that it's either not permanent, or someone actually makes a TV and mobile app that isn't just some guy's passion project that only displays TV shows and movies (no personal media) and is only ever available on Android. People are still having to install developer mode apps onto LG TVs lol.The state of Jellyfin apps is a disgrace.Silo will mog both of these apps with ease. It's written in Go so literally everyone can understand the code instantly with zero effort and modify things with very low chance of bugs due to how simple and easy and clear to follow it is. I installed it and it's excellent but currently not useable due to not supporting "Other Videos" yet (just movies and TV Shows).
>>110138664Yes I paid 75 or something for 5 years of apps which were DRAMATICALLY better than the disgraces Jellyfin constantly push... Backend Jellyfin yeah great, that's only part of the experience, I also want to open it on my TV and not have every folder take years to load.It's only become good recently with things like Wholphin which obviously piss all over the official Jellyfin app. But where is the LG WebOS Wholphin?
>>110138679It's nothing to do with sunk cost. Fat anime autists who sits at a computer screen all day don't ever leave their browser window so they forget that things like TVs and tablets and mobiles even exist and NEED to have commercial grade apps. When the only apps that exist are garbage, the program is unusable. It's kind of getting fixed now thanks to third party apps... Jellyfin's developers though, are those fat autists who forget anything but their internet browser exists.
>>110137086Lmao kodi Chads stay winning. Muh troonnscoding! Faggots
>>110137086no shit so that's why it's still completely broken when it comes to handle PPI on windows.Maybe I should just reverse engineer it myself to fix it
>>110142929Why can't jellyfin fix their UI with AI? Are they stupid?
>>110138664I paid $120 one time, 9 years ago and use it daily. I guarantee Plex has lost money on me.
>>110137117Sending a couple hundo their way for the emotional distress.
>>110141855True, when you're hacked you're hacked
>>110142929>It's written in Go so literally everyone can understand the code instantly with zero effortCute that you think people are still reading and writing code.About the other part you are right though.
>>110142115you pay for something that does what it sells you badly.
>>110145581Not that anon, but I literally bought it for the ota/dvr function after windows media center shit the bed so as long as that goes I'm good. But the roku application is hot dog shit and I will die on that hill. So fuck the retards that got canned.
>>110138664Yeah, it's been great. I paid something like 70 bucks and have gotten over a decade of trouble-free service for that. Jellyfin didn't even exist when I first started using Plex. It's quite amusing that the turd worlders of /g/ think it's some epic own, but then I guess 70 bucks is a month's wages in your country.
>>110137086they vibed too close to the sun (aka the infinite jewish butthole of free money)
>>110139600Same. Fuck em.
>>110138679I have a lifetime Plex license. Got it before the price went up, but I don't know if I've used it more than a month. I've just been using jellyfin. It's open source it works and if there's a feature I want or something I can just fork it and vibe code the feature into it.I ended up sending the Jellyfin team what I paid for the Plex lifetime license as a donation.
>>110137086H264 1080p master raceThanks YIFY
Is navidrome actually as good as Plexamp or is that something people just say because they seethe about Plex. Plexamp is the last good part of Plex but I'm sure they will destroy it somehow and I'm gonna be annoyed if navidrome sucks
don't worry plexpigs more shitty updates are coming whether you want them or not
>>110147041Do you already have Plex? Use plexamp.Do you not have Plex? Evaluate alternatives.
>>110138679I swallowed my pride and brought the lifetime premium for nexus mods before they removed the lifetime option and buffed up the monthly price since then there's been no fucking games worth doing heavy modding of
>>110143031>Jellyfin's developers though, are those fat autists who forget anything but their internet browser exists.what are you talking about? For my androidTV I have a bunch of different Jellyfin apps to choose from, official and third party. 4k DV content plays great too
>>110138679I paid maybe $75 for it a decade ago and never thought about it again. I could do without quarterly app UI redesigns. I hope they fired the faggots that keep changing it. IT WORKS, LEAVE IT THE FUCK ALONE IM TIRED OF RELEARNING THE UI.
>>110142051>Management fucked this one up massivelynever heard that one before... how long until we start killing HR and management altogether? they're a plague to society
>>110141913You will have to bite the bullet at some point. Just do it. t. former Plex now Jellyfin/Navidrome user
>>110137086This along with the utter shite tv app update just made me switch to Jellyfin + Wholphin/Plezy.I wasn't able to make the switch before because I used the official app that is also shit. But now it's all up and running perfectly after configuring trickplay + intro skipper.
>>110143083>I guarantee Plex has lost money on me.Your use of Plex doesn't cost them anything
>>110137669Or hire a few actually compitent people from cultures that aren't geared towards laziness.
>>110148193> anything> compute for auth> video going through their relay when my NAT is fuckedIf I cost them more than 3.2 cents a day, and that isn't including any human labkr costs o their end they're losing out. And yes even their nominal network requests cost money. Stay poor and retarded techlet.
Imagine paying to watch shows you've pirated.
>>110137086>What the fuck is the company even doing?What their VC masters want of them: offering sowing freemium stuff, reaping user data.
>>110142017120 employees for a shitass web player??
>>110137086And the people who bought lifetime licenses were soo smug about it towards us Jellychads.
>>110149282>>110149271
>>110149271You know, it's surprising, isn't it. Not that this happened, but rather, that after every single piece of VC software doing this, ever single time, without fail, this EXACT thing, people STILL somehow don't see it coming.How.
>>110148031Why use navideome when jellyfin supports audio and you can use clients with a better UI like finamp or feishin?
>>110149333You're unable to imagine why people might want a dedicated music streaming software to stream their music, rather than an all-in-one kitchen-sink software?
>>110149367I use kavita for ebooks, stash for muh porn, lanararagi for muh doujins, I think jellyfin supports audio well enough and even if the music UI doesnt impress me, i'll just switch to another frontend like feishin or finamp
>>110149382Fair enough. FWIW, Navidrome supports more audio tags than Jellyfin - for example, disc subtitles ('bonus disc', 'remastered 2018 reissue'), track subtitles ('live' / 'remix'), etc.
>>110137086I realize most neckbeards here never held actual jobs, but anyone that has knows that basically every company is still way bloated with ~40% of employees that do jack shit, ~40% doing the bare minimum to not get fired, and maybe 10-20% doing actual work. If you got laid off, then you weren't worth anything to the company. Simple as that. Plex is still and always will be 3-5 years ahead of Jellyfin so I'll keep using it with the rest of the Plexchads that bought lifetime plex pass.
I don't know why they so desperately wanted to have this legal front page that made the experience worse for their core customers.Were they under pressure to rebrand?>>110150625They are a handful of prompts ahead of 0The only thing they have going for them was broad app support on smart tvs, consoles. You can run Plex' client anywhere. And they pissed that away with a lot of unmaintained stuff and general rot.
>bait
>>110137568Came here to post this.
>>110150867>Were they under pressure to rebrand?yes pressure being investors that want their money back
>>110142987>where is the LG WebOS Wholphin?if only there was a magical technology which allowed to port stuff basically automatically
already moved to emby lmao plexicucks on sw
>>110148199>from cultures that aren't geared towards lazinessGuess US is out then.
>>110137086I wish they laid them all off before they redesigned the Roku App in 2025.
The other month they updated it and I had to fucking update the server for no good reason otherwise it wouldn't work and that pissed me off. Literally just maintain the scraping and don't touch anything else, holy fuck. All I use this for is putting movies on the network for my mom so I don't have to use a USB stick like it's 1995.
>>110149434Not that anon, does finamp support navidrome? I quite like finamp as a frontend for my phone, it's the only reason I've stuck with jellyfin for music thus far because the server itself kinda sucks
>>110151805There were vulnerabilities being actively exploited in the wild that needed to be patched, retard. You'd best be ready to be updating all your shit much more frequently now that LLMs are discovering exploits all over the place. Otherwise enjoy the botnet.
>>110151836Navidrome speaks Jellyfinese as of a few releases ago, so if you point a Jellyfin client at a Navidrome install then it should play music just fine.
>>110151805Agree, pissed me off too>>110151850Retard, why would you expose your internal environment to the internet..
>>110151850It's literally a fucking local application. Why is it even talking outside my network?
>>110151864>>110151874You're both retards and should not be allowed access to software when you clearly have no fucking idea of its basic functions. You are the reason botnets exist.
>>110151898Hey, dumbass, if you don't separate your LAN form your WAN that is not our problem. Let me guess, you just use the router the ISP gave you lol
>>110151856kinolooks like I'm cutting over then. Time to give it another shot as the backend to my lyrion server too since the metadata parsing on that thing is ass (but the multiroom audio handling can't be beat)
>>110151968The Eero Pro 7 from my ISP is unironically better than 95% of consumer routers on the market right now THOUGH. And no I don't need all that hacky openwrt/ubiquiti/pfsense crap anymore.
software devs: >bragging about their 500k jobs + stock options + adult daycare facility>begging for compassion and solidarity after they have just been sacked and blew all their earnings on matcha lattes and Macbook Pros
>>110152305silly anon, they're the ones larping about organizing their workplace and really really really hoping someone organizes a BLM march or something that they can go walk around in. down with the fascist patriarchy state!!!! *builds the fascist patriarchal state apparatus*
>>110152262Okay, so you confirmed that you LAN and WAN are separate. So please explain how I can hit your Plex server from where I am
anyone have insider information?wtf is going on at plex?
>>110142017when you get a company email that you're going to honduras, your next action should be writing and submitting your resignation
>providing a live service forever under a one time license feeobviously not a sustainable business model, everyone who paid for this deserves to get rugged
Started going down hill 7 years ago when they started making shitty UI choices and forcing their own streaming library on users over the media server content (you know, the thing you actually use Plex for in the first place)I bought a lifetime pass in /2018 but I haven't used it since 2021
>>110137086kek people paid money for this dogshit product
>>110138664
>>110137086I vibe coded my own, yall retarded
>>110138586It's actually>pay me or I WILL reveal this vulnerabilityyou'd know if you weren't a clueless shithead.
>>110151610Chinese probably would rape tech market even harder than Indians did if only it weren't for all their spyware
>>110142987>>110143031I vibecoded a Jellyfin client for my LG C1 and it’s a bliss. Fast interface, subtitles adjusted perfectly to my liking, and it plays all remuxes I throw at it without breaking a sweat.
>>110150625> 3-5 years aheadLmao
Huh, didn't know there was an RCE CVE in Plex.
No joke I uninstalled PLEX a few days ago after realising I haven't used it in years.
>>110137086LMAO. plextards get exactly what they deserve for supporting this proprietary shartware.
So if you dont host your own media and go through these paid plex/emby/jellyfin/silo shares, do you need to pay for plex or emby separately on top of that? Whats the best way to go? Back in my day i torrented everything, but been out of the game for years and hear about these options and feel out of the loop.
>>110156321You're right, Plex is probably more like 5-7 years ahead.
>>110161703AI will kill them, only thing they got to offer is shitty software that is now cheap to replace.
Works on my machine.
>>110137086I just upgraded to jellyfin just now. What the fuck was the use case of plex?! Even before, I had my own smb/dlna web server.
>>110137086100% Claude could fix it in a few hours
>>110163859Before the only thing that really set it apart was better hardware transcoding support. Jellyfin relies on ffmpeg so it should technically be possible to implement everything but there are driver hurdles etc for working with that sometimes. They distribute their own compiled version of ffmpeg that gets used instead of whatever is on your machine.
>>110163368>AI will kill themNot being a public toilet will be the only thing that saves them.
>>110137086Plex programmer trannys should stay the fuck away from any other playersThey'll beg for it to cost money an fuck it up too.
