Again, if it never gets any better I’m cool. If a feature comes out and I have to pay for it, I’ll make that decision at that time. I might just decide to stay where I am forever and be perfectly happy.
I am sure Plex didn’t adopt the current model on a whim, they have plenty of investors and experts who have crunched the numbers and see it as a viable business strategy. I said it sometime back when they started their initial investment drive that Plex was pretty clear concerning where they wanted to go as a company, being in business myself I can’t fault them for doing things to make it more profitable.
Nevertheless, the downsides are also evident, but the solution won’t and never will be for them to abandon their investors and give up on their strategy and revert to the Plex of old, that would be corporate suicide. Change will always come folks, businesses grow and the evolve or else they die.
One thing that really bothers me as of late about the forums is the whining and complaining with no real suggestions and meaningful constructive feedback to get things on track. I find myself less and less inclined to be here and participate. Just wish folks would be a bit more balanced about life and living. The reason why Plex are doing this isn’t to retain their users, it’s to grow and find a new customer base. I understand Tubi Freevee and other free add supported streaming services have found success with those models.
Just one final thought, I am by no means a Plex apologist and they have gotten a lot of things wrong over the years, things to do with iOS, tvOS and the general state of players for the Apple ecosystems, the privacy of user data is the latest firestorm and general consistency of functions with players etc and would love them to focus more efforts into getting these things right, attending to bugs and being clearer on roadmap for implemention of features and squashing of bugs. Infuse have a much more transparent system regarding roadmaps and it works very well for their forums.
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I think I mostly gave up on the forums 2 full forum designs ago haha. The anger here for software that most of us have paid a 1 time fee for 10+ years ago and use DAILY is astounding. I am pretty sure my investment is at about a cent a day.
What I would love to see is a "home media server monthly subscription cost ($5 a month or whatever) that guarantees us home media people active development/features etc etc moving into the future as clearly the funding sources are expecting it from streaming/renting. I don’t use that stuff but have 0 problem with it as it keeps Plex around.
I’d take it one step further and be happy to pay a bounty program for features that should “just work” but for whatever reason, plex,inc refuses to acknowledge:
- I would leave Spotify forever and just use Plexamp if this 9 year old request was fulfilled: Better support for albums and tracks with multiple artists - #133 by mightydh
- Seamless branching audio dropouts with TRUEHD is finally getting some love after the right person at plex,inc saw what was happening after 2 years and finally talked to the exoplayer talked with exoplayer devs and finally nvidia.
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Since national pride seems to be a selling point for you, Plex was started by someone who lives in Hawaii, one of the main Jellyfin devs is based in Canada
lol at your word choice “national pride” I chuckled… but that’s interesting info, I didn’t know that!!
I haven’t switched to Jellyfin fam. Plex is obviously still the superior product.
Overall, I love the Plex product and I completely understand why things are shifting to subscription models and renting. Almost every modern SaaS product is subscription based, recurring revenue is needed to pay for upstream service costs and people making awesome software deserve to be compensated accordingly.
I love hearing this, legit… thanks for sharing! I’m definitely guilty of wining on forums 
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