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Jellyfin is not just good... but better than Plex now?! (vger.social)

submitted 19 hours ago by aeharding@vger.social to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I've feel like I've used Plex forever. I also feel like every couple years I try Jellyfin to see how it's going. Recently I tried it again because of Plex restriction on more than one user.

Well, I just tried it again and it's substantially improved! This time it actually properly detected most of my library!

Also the Android TV app is AWESOME! No more glitches, lagging, and freezing trying to play my stuff like Plex did. It is butter smooth.

Wow! I'm impressed and I just deleted Plex. Good riddance.

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[–] ripcord@lemmy.world -2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, it naturally has to be something that they eventually find a way to charge you something for. If it's a for-profit business, and if they only sold lifetime subscriptions, they would eventually go out of business.

[–] ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social 12 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

Then they shouldn't be called lifetime subscriptions. This seems like a really smarmy justification of a shitty business practice.

[–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Sublime never offered lifetime subscriptions. https://web.archive.org/web/20150928064400/http://www.sublimetext.com/sales_faq You can even see as far back as 2014 that if you purchased Sublime Text 2 when Sublime 3 was still in beta:

Upgrade Policy
A license is valid for Sublime Text 3, and includes all point updates, as well as access to prior versions (e.g., Sublime Text 2). Future major versions, such as Sublime Text 4, will be a paid upgrade.

Expiration Date
Licenses purchased for Sublime Text 3 do not expire, however an upgrade fee will be required for Sublime Text 4.

You can find that disagreeable, but it was not something they hid from us customers.

[–] WalnutLum@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Licenses for sublime text 2 just said "and future updates". I remember the "lifetime" thing being a selling point on producthunt. This was back in 2013 though, and the weird way the licensing change was handled made me switch to emacs.