I paid $100 a handful of years ago, and it felt worth it at the time. Jellyfin has improved tremendously in that time, adding intro/outro skip, a tizen app, better collections support, and is super snappy comparatively. I thought my streaming server was to blame for the long buffer times at the start of media, but clearly not because Jellyfin starts almost as soon as the player loads in. Plex has gotten worse, more invasive, more expensive, and more sluggish since then. I'll never look back to Plex. What value they offer on top of Jellyfin's functionality (which is shrinking year by year) isn't worth the $2 per phone per month for my new users. I made the switch for ~20 family/friends, and other than the name, people only had praises for Jellyfin.

[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Your users don’t have to pay anything if you have a Plex pass…….

Also I doubt you have other users, externally, if you switched to jellyfin as it’s not made for that, nor should it be used for that.

[–] Carrot@lemmy.today 1 points 8 hours ago

As far as I know they do for remote streaming on phones, if they weren't part of my server at the time they introduced the monthly remote streaming subscription. I tried to add a new user after it was introduced, and to use Plex to access content from my server on their phone they no longer had the option to pay the $5 or whatever, they had to sign up for a $2 a month subscription. I don't know if this may have been walked back in the last few months, but at the time it was true.

I don't sell access or anything like that, I've just got friends and family with access. It fluctuates, but right now it's sitting at 17 external accounts. I host on the public internet. Despite it being not recommended in general, it's actually safe to do so if proper precautions are taken. (Correct firewall settings, force https, reverse proxy, scheduled updates, etc.) There are a few extra things I do, but just those should be safe enough if your users aren't reusing passwords.