Sounds like they don't want to sell lifetime memberships.
this post was submitted on 21 May 2026
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I would guess that their seed cap is looking for payback, or they realized that the lifetime plans are going to put them out of business.
They're running really high operating costs, live service (that no one wants) with commercials (no one wants) trying to compete with people that could stand up that same piece of content from pirate source in two minutes with no ads.
It'd be different if they just cached tvdb, epg, and provided low rez proxies, and kept basic features, they could live for a really long time.
They can't pay for the mess they're making trying to make more money :)
LOL. As if I would pay these clowns for access to booty that I've captured from the high seas.
Jellyfin is what to use.
I love being able to post this yet again:
I have a lifetime Plex pass I got during a big sale like a decade ago, at 1/10 the price they are raising it to. I haven't used it in about 6 months and never plan to even log into it again. Jellyfin 4 life!
I mean, I also have a whole bunch of windows keys from old MSDN accounts and stuff, but I am sure as shit not going to install Windows on my machines just because I can!
What about Emby? Or Kodi? Or DNLA streams?
This is one of those situations where they’ll jack the fee up. Wait for everyone to stop pissing themselves. Then become heroes for listening and lowering it to the halfway point between the old few and the new one.
It's to push people to buy "before it goes up."
After the date then they can heavily discount it "for a limited time."
This is why I have Jellyfin.
I was waiting for this story after I saw that on my inbox.
Waiting until “plex pro” and they slowly sunset features on the original plex lifetime pass.
wdym "borderline"
Existing Lifetime Plex Pass memberships are unaffected by the upcoming price hike; if you already locked in your sub at a lower rate, you won’t have to pay any additional fees, and your service isn’t changing
For now.
It’d be mildly annoying to have to switch to Jellyfin, or some other option, but I have no qualms ditching Plex if it turns to crap. Don’t ever give into the sink cost fallacy.
I moved to Jellyfin a while back and I've really enjoyed it. Maybe not better, but on par with Plex in most respects.
That's the thing: it doesn't have to be better since it's 100% free. It could be considerably worse and still be the better choice for the price.
The fact that it's mostly on par is absolute gravy.
Very good point. I definitely moved over in protest of Plex's rug pull, so fuck them.
The only reason I'm still using plex is the smart TV I have doesn't support Jellyfin.
Time to set up a Linux stream box that does support it (and whatever else I want).
Time to set up a Linux stream box that does support it (and whatever else I want).
This is the way. I made a tiny PC to use with my dumb TV, and I can’t understand why anyone would do anything else (except for laziness, I understand that).
I plan on replacing it with the steam box, if it turns out to be functional for streaming.
Roku has a jellyfin app. In case you didn't want to setup up your own Linux stream box
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Jumping to $250 USD was borderline... $750 fucking crossed that point and took my job! (Referencing offensive like AI)
I just don't understand why they don't stop offering it altogether. This price hike shows they can't really afford to offer it at all. Just stop. It's okay. You don't have to keep providing this service tier to new users.
It’s one final cash grab before moving to sub only.
Yeah. You mean subbing to bankruptcy 😂
They don't want it but still want to offer an option for it... its just a complete ripoff at that price though.
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Bruh just use jellyfin. Using it for over 2 years w/o a hiccup.
What about Emby? Or Kodi? Or DNLA streams?
Haven’t tried them. I have tested Kodi with Jellyfin Integration, which works well, as I am planning to use some old PC as an HTPC with Kodi sometime later.
Do you host it locally or in the cloud? Can you use it while traveling? /gen
Host locally and access it from outside the home via Netbird. Though not sure what gen means
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not the commenter your responding but yes with proper setup travel is no issue.
I've never tried to host in the cloud so I have no input on that, but locally + tailscale is very doable and pretty dead simple to setup and manage.
I would highly recommend the linuxserver.io docker image. with a modern cpu and the docker image, transcoding won't be too much of an issue with most titles and only one or two users. my server has media only in hevc, so some clients need transcoding. my 3700k is perfectly fine with it.
if you want to expose it to a domain you gotta be a little more careful, reverse proxy + an external auth provider like authentik at minimum is what I would suggest. fail2ban and anubis are also great ideas.
I have it on my n100 mini pc server in docker. I expose it to the open internet through a reverse tunnel (Pangolin) hosted on a VPS in my city. It is secured by crowdsec and geoblock whitelist mode. I can access it from anywhere in my country. If travelling abroad I will just whitelist that country. Me and my gf do watch parties on it in 4k while simultaneously my brother and sis in law watch something on it on their TV. Bandwidth is not a problem at all. The only hiccup that might come is while transcoding multiple streams. You need capable hardware for it. It hasn’t impacted me yet.
Hey, remember when you bought a 'copy' of software? And it was yours to use for as long as you like? Subscriptions are the worst.
Bought it when it was a reasonable price but switching to jellyfin anyway. Fuck late stage capitalism.
That's called biting off your nose to spite your face.
Who needs a nose anyway.
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