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If you haven’t seen it yet, we recently made the announcement that starting July 1, 2026, the price of “Jellyfin Premium+ One Super Unlimited (with Ads)” will increase to $0.00 USD*. There has been a lot of enthusiasm regarding charge backs, and we’re simply blown away by the community’s response.

As we’ve had a high volume of inquiries, I’d ask if you could please wait until I’m off the support email shift to reach out about this issue. I’ve attached our schedule so you’ll know when it is safe to reach out.

Thanks, and happy streaming!

*Example price in USD. Exact pricing in other currencies may vary.

  • belunos@lemmus.orgEnglish
    12·
    3 hours ago

    I recall a lot of people commenting how they were really happy with jellyfin after the plex increase

    • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      33 minutes ago

      I am really happy with Jellyfin after giving up on Plex, after realizing they really do not care about their customers/users. We have a bug on LG TVs where Plex is incredibly sluggish, both to start up and to navigate. Even moving between elements on a single screen takes like 1.5 seconds.

      Been a known bug to the developers for about a decade going by the forums. Devs have responded to this. They won’t respond anymore. They don’t care.

      I openly suggested in the forum posts there, that people should move to Jellyfin, and that I was doing the same. Enough is enough. Plex used to be quite performance on my TV.

      Jellyfin just flies, with the exact same library access.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 minutes ago

        Jellyfin just flies

        Idk about “flies”, but it’s tolerable. On older TVs it remains clunky, but usable. Also, definitely has it’s share of bugs. But that’s FOSS for you. I’m not going $750 out of pocket for it.

    • Bazoogle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      43·
      2 hours ago

      “Jellyfin Premium+ One Super Unlimited (with Ads)” will increase to $0.00 USD*

      Does this look like a joke to you? Jellyfin and their typical price hikes. They’ll probably cut the pay of their volunteers next, if I had to guess.

  • neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    62·
    6 hours ago

    I decided to bite the bullet and just pay the price increase. I will be looking for other services to use before I am charged again. Does Windows Media Player work well for you guys?

  • frog_brawler@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    4 hours ago

    So… I 100% support anyone that wants to sail the high seas; yet at the same time… I cannot imagine going through the trouble of setting up anything to download the trash content that’s created these days.

    We barely get one decent movie a year, and there’s been 3 tolerable television shows since 2005… why the fuck does anyone even want this?!?

    • Robust Mirror@aussie.zoneEnglish
      5·
      2 hours ago

      If you can’t see why people subjectively like new stuff, that’s not something anyone can really help you with. You’re welcome to watch the office or whatever on repeat for the rest of your life, or simply not watch TV, but to say you fundamentally can’t understand why anyone would watch anything new says more about you than them.

    • normonator@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      3 hours ago

      To archive the good ones, because you are correct. Modern stuff is mostly just crap.

  • kinther@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    7 hours ago

    I bought a plex pass about 5 years ago. I figured it would be a reasonable long term investment. I am starting to think I should have just gone with Jellyfin to start with.

    • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.auEnglish
      4·
      3 hours ago

      Why? That investment is paying off as it’s now significantly higher priced and has more features behind it.

      Jellyfin is not as good as Plex. The client is worse, the streaming options are worse, and the remote streaming and sharing is insecure and costs extra to do even remotely, pun intended, securely.

      • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        8·
        4 hours ago

        Yeah, the reality is that the people who bought the Lifetime pass a few years ago have gotten their money’s worth several times over. Hell, in my first year alone, it saved me more money on streaming services than I spent on the lifetime pass. So I made my money back in less than a year.

      • kungen@feddit.nuEnglish
        14·
        6 hours ago

        It wouldn’t really, but you should already see “the writing on the wall”. Your own collections aren’t prioritized, and who knows what they’ll do next - putting ads into your own personal collections maybe?

        The final straw was when sent that “you need to pay a monthly fee to do remote streaming” email. It was intentionally worded very unclear… and they just so happened to have a “bug” around that time where many users got an error message saying that they needed to buy it, which isn’t true, because I had a lifetime pass on the server.

        It didn’t feel ethical for me to continue using Plex, when I needed to explain to some friends and relatives that they should absolutely not give any of their money to Plex.