Important 2025 Plex Updates
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Personal Media and Beyond You’re going to be hearing a lot from us this year—we’ve got a ton of exciting...

We are also changing how remote playback works for streaming personal media (that is, playback when not on the same local network as the server). The reality is that we need more resources to continue putting forth the best personal media experience, and as a result, we will no longer offer remote playback as a free feature. This—alongside the new Plex Pass pricing—will help provide those resources. This change will apply to the future release of our new Plex experience for mobile and other platforms.

    • cm0002@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      17 hours ago

      Not JUST closed source, the project owner slammed the source shut with no discussion with the community and little notice nor did they even bother to consider any alternatives whatsoever

      They went about it in the shittiest most unforgivable way possible for an open source project.

    • Exulion@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      17 hours ago

      As far as I know emby is a jellyfin fork that I think they took closed source? I also went the emby route after getting annoyed at how much Plex was pushing their own content. Emby felt more polished to me than jellyfin, I get that there is some community resentment over some of their decisions but so far I haven’t had any regrets and have more control than with Plex.

      • CmdrShepard42@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        9 hours ago

        Jellyfin was forked from Emby years ago when Emby went closed source I believe on the 4.0 update.