Really appreciate the thoughts.
I do! We all do! It’s still the same core group who started this thing ten years later and controlling the destiny of the company (not investors).
Let’s not read too much into this—all businesses strive for growth. And there are no emperors behind the curtain pulling the strings.
A bit hyperbolic, no? The main point is to bring your own local in-home media. Plugins were only about cloud media to begin with, were never used by a lot of people, and were always unreliable because they mostly relied on scraping sites.
I’m not sure what you saw coming, but bolding and italicizing it doesn’t make it true.
This…doesn’t make a lot of sense. There are tons of third party things around the server (e.g. Tautilli) and ways to integrate with it (e.g. Webhooks). We’ll be doing more of this in the future.
That’s not actually true, there was a shitload of documentation around plugins (more than for our existing internal APIs 
) It was incredibly easy to build them, and it was fun. I built lots of 'em! But again, per above, their achilles heel was the fact that scraping websites is just not a reliable way to expose internet content.
This happened like 9 years ago, it’s not new; ever since the media server existed, we’ve been a company with proprietary software. Once we started selling Plex Passes (~7-8 years ago?) we had a Freemium model.
Again with the conspiracies! The reason we have an Amazon app is not because they gave us a penny (they didn’t), it’s because we thought the interesting integration there was for on-device playback (I use it every night!). Google Home doesn’t allow us to do that.
I love you too, man, but please stop smoking crack. That day will never ever come, it’s a ridiculous idea.
