I am curious if Plex is going to increase the maximum number of users you can invite to your server from 99. I have just recently hit that number and would prefer to not create a generic login for people to share, when people like to customize their playlists, and continue watching their show/movie they left off with.
This will not happen, and has been expressed on here before. People using their servers in non-commercial environments should never have any need for an excess of 99 users.
well apparently I have more friends than most then. I charge no one for connecting to my server, at least they should bump it up to 200. I’d never hit that. But unless they have a commercial license, I will probably have to create a generic login then for others going forward.
Its never going to happen. It’s just not a scenario that makes sense. The amount of people that need more then 100 users who aren’t trying to use their server commercially is certainly next to nothing. I couldn’t name 50 people that I think of as actual friends, let alone 100. I actually think Plex set the limit pretty high. Even further then the unlikely nature of someone having over 100 people that they regularly interact with and consider close friends. They have explained that the load it puts on their servers is too much.
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Are you saying that you are using Plex commercially?
Agreed. I think Plex is already being quite generous with that number.
I am not using it commercially, I was only asking, because if it were available then I’d probably buy it myself so my friends and family aren’t feeling the pains of sharing a single account later. My friends are ones that I’ve worked with over many of jobs in the IT field, I also have my family, and when you have two divorced parents with multiple children on both sides, 100 people is a small number. We didn’t have a wedding because just my invitees numbers were going to be over 250+ ppl. I dont know how it can put too much load on their servers. All their servers should be doing is redirects to my server’s IP address, nothing more. Non of my friends/family watch anything that is from Plex’s media servers.
They likely want to protect themselves from liability, to keep a user of the software from becoming the next popcorn time. It wouldn’t be too hard to layer some additional software on top to automate user creation and a subscription service, then sign up thousands of random people on the internet. If plex discourages that by preventing large numbers of subscribers, they can avoid being blamed for encouraging piracy.
I just had a thought, if this is so important, consider adding a new server. You could have a whole other computer with a separate account, with its own 100 user limit. If they both point to the same source (and you rely completely on default metadata) then managing two servers to have identical content shouldn’t be too difficult.
You case might be genuine but I suspect it will majorly benefit server admins who sell the service which is against ToS, etc. Also, Plex doesn’t have local authentication etc. yet, so I think each user talk to Plex server is some way which in turn might adds load.
I would suggest you to try Emby, it doesn’t have any user limit. I also find Emby player to be more robust, so it will be good for variety of your friends and solves this problem. If not, as suggested by divididedby0 might solve your issue too.
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I’m sorry to hijack the thread… but I’m curious as to what your server is that you can handle 99 streams? You mention many of your users are people you met in different IT positions, so I assume you work in IT and aren’t using an old Optiplex 790 or something. 
I was curious about that as well, but more on the internet side. I suspect they don’t have all 99 playing at once. But my crappy internet can barely handle compressed 1080p uploads to myself remotely, let alone 10+ (I assume an average of 10 playing at one time).
I did build a REALLY beefy new server recently to handle Plex, and am curious to know how many people it can handle, but the most streams I will EVER do is 3.
I have 3x 16TB hard drives, 1x 1TB SSD (main OS), 1x 3TB M.2 SSD (main transcoding and 4K movies are on there) almost 4,000mb/s Read/Write speed on that. I have 1GB internet (thank you Frontier) and I’m using an older HP EliteDesk with an i7 and 32GB of RAM. I also have a Nvidia 1080 on board. I used to have my main PC as my main Plex server but when I would go to gaming conventions I would feel bad that nobody could watch anything for that weekend. I am genuine, I’ve supported Plex from the beginning, back in the early days of Windows Media Server. I saw plex and fell in love. I do not want to switch to Emby, thanks for the thought though. I like Plex so much, I would volunteer my time if they asked me too. I’m a database administrator and software engineer and would gladly lend my time to them.
Plex does have its currently open positions listed in the Careers link at the bottom of http://www.plex.tv
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