Honestly the writing's been on the wall for Plex for a while now. I think it was when they introduced podcasts or news or something that it first became clear to me that Plex was trying to grow beyond a software company for self-hosters and prepare themselves for an IPO or something. I still use it simply because their client availability is second-to-none and I've got a bunch of people signed up already, but I've already made my peace that the "Plex getting shittier" line and the "Jellyfin getting better" line are getting closer and closer to crossing each other.

At the moment all is fine. I'm just going to ride with it until I have to stop and change to something else.

I had to drop Plex when it made me sign in for a locally hosted setup. I'd rather not have them in my library.

Replaced with Jellyfin as others here have, found every device in the house so far works with it and it streamed 4k to the TV from an RPI 4.

You know what would be a killer feature?

Being able to buy movies without DRM crap at full resolution (blu-ray or 4k HDR) at a reasonable price (same or less than physical media) that includes extras. Extra points if everything is already named and in the correct folder layout to just drop it on the server in the right folder. Extra Extra points if Plex manages the download in the background and puts it in the right place when finished, or an incoming folder that awaits approval. Even several hours or more to download it would be fine (just make download resumable).

(yes I know this is exceedingly unlikely to happen, but we can dream)

Plex is yet another service on the enshitification high road, might aswell switch to Jellyfin now and spare the future trouble if you ask me.

https://cordcuttersnews.com/this-new-plex-feature-shares-your-weird-watch-history-with-friends-and-its-tricky-to-turn-off/

As soon as they pulled this I switched to Jellyfin. No regrets.

Yeah I don’t like it. Gonna ride this out for now like some of the other people here but I suspect I’ll be moving onto Jellyfin in the next few years.

I'm already on my way out of Plex to Jellyfin.

I had a nice run with my lifetime pass, but the road ahead has been very clear the last couple of years of where Plex is headed.

After they purger all the pirate shares, their clock is ticking.

Soon they'll have no data and no customers. These tools come and go and the community will migrate while they continue their profitable enshitification.

Well, I look forward to having to switch to something else when inevitably someone at Plex says "if we just monetized traffic for home servers we'd be able to make so much money"

Had to cancel mine once Hetzner got blocked.

Where can I watch The Grudge