There’s a new Plex UI that they pushed to Android a few months ago that breaks everything, removes options and customizability, requires extra unintuitive actions to get to any self-hosted libraries, and pushes Plex’s Live TV and other junk into prominent UI positions, as I assume the investors and MBAs demanded.
It was released and universally criticized. So Plex’s team thought long and hard about that user feedback - ok, ok, sorry, I couldn’t make it without laughing. They changed nothing and pushed forward and now it hit Roku, with no way to decline or roll back.
I’m a Plex Pass user and we cannot opt out on Roku devices. On Android I was able to roll back the app, since we can sideload old versions and turn off updates.
The lifetime membership to Jellyfin is on Github in the form of a GPL license and the source code. I’ve got a lifetime membership to Jellyfin and it didn’t cost me a dime.
I know Lemmy is obsessed with Jellyfin, but alot of us have lifetime memberships to Plex, and will switch when hell freezes over.
Wait until you see what they did to the Roku UI.
So Jellyfin… How hard is it to migrate from Plex?
What about it? Genuinely… I’ve been using Rokus longer than Plex, what’s the issue with the Roku version?
There’s a new Plex UI that they pushed to Android a few months ago that breaks everything, removes options and customizability, requires extra unintuitive actions to get to any self-hosted libraries, and pushes Plex’s Live TV and other junk into prominent UI positions, as I assume the investors and MBAs demanded.
It was released and universally criticized. So Plex’s team thought long and hard about that user feedback - ok, ok, sorry, I couldn’t make it without laughing. They changed nothing and pushed forward and now it hit Roku, with no way to decline or roll back.
They are clearly making a shift to bury the user’s libraries to the profit of their monetised content.
I guess they consider that our lifetime pass isn’t enough money anymore.
Enshitification is here, and I’m pretty sure it’s on it’s way to every other platform’s UIs.
So yeah, I guess it’s time to figure out how Jellyfin works.
Curious is this is something that is forced on non members. Plex will die the moment they abuse their members.
I’m a Plex Pass user and we cannot opt out on Roku devices. On Android I was able to roll back the app, since we can sideload old versions and turn off updates.
I didn’t have to pay for Jellyfin, I think you got scammed.
Sorry, did you mean a lifetime membership to Jellyfin? Because I don’t think there is such a thing…
The lifetime membership to Jellyfin is on Github in the form of a GPL license and the source code. I’ve got a lifetime membership to Jellyfin and it didn’t cost me a dime.