I was just forwarded this someone in my household who watches our server. That's it folks. I've been a hold out for a long time, but this is honestly it.
They want me to pay to stream content that I bought from my hardware transcoded also on my hardware.
I'll say it. As of today, I say Plex is dead. Luckily I've been setting up Jellyfin, I guess it's time to make it production ready.
Edit I have a Plex Pass. More comments saying "Just buy a plex pass" are seriously not getting it. I have a Plex Pass and my users are still getting this.
I've been trying it out for a few months. Parity is there. This is what finally convinced me it was time to leave. I'm a plex pass lifetime member, but I don't like features that have been free for years suddenly requiring a monthly subscription. It's time.
I can agree with you that I love free software. But I've always been aware that it's not. I'll be pissed if they paywall new things behind a new subscription even for lifetime members though.
I was really close to setting aside time to mess with jellyfin but a lot of people on the fediverse have been raising alarms about security issues if you are sharing with others over the web. I can't comprehend what they are but it's put that project on pause since everyone is happy with the Plex server right now.
Honestly what I've seen is that most of the security stuff is fairly overhyped. If you do even the bare minimum, like put it behind a reverse proxy, you're going to more than likely be fine