Jellyfin guys
this post was submitted on 19 May 2026
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Literally 10x the price I paid for mine
Early adopter club 🙌🙌
Early rejector club. Jellyfin gang.
I have underwear older then jellyfin. Plex was the only option for some time
Edit: Alright, alright, it wasn't the only option, but it was the cleanest/easiest way to make a home server feel like a streaming service that I knew of at the time
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How much longer before the yearly/monthly goes up this much.
as soon as they think the market will bear it
How much longer until all the current lifetime subscribers have to pay up to the current price to keep it?
Yeah - they know that you are using the service a lot. They know that you are willing to pay. But they are not getting ongoing revenue from you. That is something no MBA manager CEO dude can accept. They will come for lifetime users
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I'm just waiting for them to decide all the lifetime members need to pay monthly and kill off the lifetime memberships. Probably by having a 'new' version that for some made up reason can only function ~~on the blood of the unborn~~ on monthly subscriptions. Where the only real change will be a different UI that's missing features which they will tout as "cleaner".
Wait wait wait so… you pay THEM to let YOU share YOUR media? Wha?
Not really. What Plex is selling is a relay service, so you can connect to your home media remotely, just like you can do with Tailscale etc. the second thing they are selling is user management, easily share media library with other people. Both of these are hard to set up for many people in Jellyfin
An absolutely insane number of self hosting options require a subscription for now fucking reasoning.
Not a one time buy which would at least make sense. No no! Its a monthly fee AND half the time they require a Internet connection and checkin. Just to SELF HOST.
its fucking baffling.
Not a one time buy which would at least make sense. No no! Its a monthly fee AND half the time they require a Internet connection and checkin. Just to SELF HOST.
Yeah, the DRM has to make sure your subscription is up to date. For the service you provide all the hardware for. The service you will personally have to install and maintain.
I don't know why anyone would pay that instead of using Jellyfin. I've had my server up for years now and it works great.
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That's just gonna drive lazy people to learn how to use something open source like Jellyfin.
Lazy ones will just keep paying monthly. Industrious ones might move to jellyfin. The main thing this will do is ~~separate a few fools from their money~~ get people to stop buying lifetime passes.
It's safe to say they want people to be stuck paying monthly so they can have more consistent income i guess.
At least when paying monthly it's easier to see the worth in swapping to Jellyfin (because you aren't trying to maximize the 1k you dropped for lifetime).
Plex announces that it is tired of having all of these customers buying their software
Honestly if you’re a smaller server, or anywhere decent at tinkering Jellyfin is the better product at this point
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