I will be songlad when Plex is dead. They are almost the perfect poster chikd for enshitification of a product.
Like why the fuck do I need an account, ro stream entirely within my home box to TV.
Why do I want all of these other systems, that already have apps, within my app. I just want tonstream box to TV, I have a netflix app, I don’t want other people’s Plex set ups off the web, or some random bull shit from who knows where.
TBF, Plex has 2 things going for it that are tough to do without an account and use of their servers:
Near-zero-config sharing of your media library remotely and with other users
Being able to have media from all available sources (friends, other servers) available together in a single dashboard view
With that in mind, I can understand why they would default to requiring an account. Before I spun up my own media server, I was a user on 2 friends’ Plex accounts, and it was indeed nice to have that seamless access to both sources. But once they started requiring everyone involved to have a paid account, I noped out to Jellyfin.
A local account-free option, with the ability to later upgrade to a “cloud” account, would have been awesome. Clearly that was not their business model though.
I will be songlad when Plex is dead. They are almost the perfect poster chikd for enshitification of a product.
Like why the fuck do I need an account, ro stream entirely within my home box to TV.
Why do I want all of these other systems, that already have apps, within my app. I just want tonstream box to TV, I have a netflix app, I don’t want other people’s Plex set ups off the web, or some random bull shit from who knows where.
Box to TV.
This is why I switched to Jellyfinn.
TBF, Plex has 2 things going for it that are tough to do without an account and use of their servers:
With that in mind, I can understand why they would default to requiring an account. Before I spun up my own media server, I was a user on 2 friends’ Plex accounts, and it was indeed nice to have that seamless access to both sources. But once they started requiring everyone involved to have a paid account, I noped out to Jellyfin.
A local account-free option, with the ability to later upgrade to a “cloud” account, would have been awesome. Clearly that was not their business model though.