It failed the spouse test when I last tried last year

Ig they’re rolling it out in waves, they decided to overhaul their app UI…for the worse IMO

Here’s a comment I wrote on it about a year ago

Tldr; they are an early example of open source enshittification before enshittification was even coined (iirc)

This is going to go back quite a ways, and much of my knowledge is old at this point so some details might be off.

~15 years ago Plex as we know it started out as an OSX fork of the 0G Xbox homebrew software XBMC (Later renamed Kodi (For those who don’t know, XBMC was XBox Media Center and would turn the 0g Xbox into the cheapest Home Theater PC you could get at the time, man those were the days lol))

Plex was only briefly open source and then was quickly closed when they incorporated a year or so after they had something functional. They never made any promises about not charging or being open source or anything, so that’s why I’m generally fine with Plex

Sometime around 2012ish Emby came along as THE open source alternative to Plex and things were good. MOST of it was supposed to stay open source as was promised. From the beginning they kept build scripts n such closed source, probably should have caught on them, but heh ya know hindsight and all that.

Then around 2014/5 they took it all closed source, relicensed it and introduced their paywall including locking away already existing features. This is what pissed me and many others off and this is when and why Jellyfin split off promising to be truly fully open source forever. (There was a ton of drama about it at the time, but it looks like Embys Q&A thing a bit back doesn’t even bother to mention it, imagine that lol)

I don’t have a problem with subscriptions on open source software myself, but the way they went about it…yea. fuck em

Am I doing this right

Well if you ask me, not really, I disavowed emby years ago and afaic its just Plex and Jellyfin in this space to me

They like completely overhauled the UI lol

Jellyfin, unfortunately failed the spouse test when I last tried last year.

Besides, I don’t think for this particular case it would help much, they both pull their data from the same places iirc

I have a strong urge to not deal catnip anywhere near his city

Oh hey, this is just like my void! Established dominance with the dog on day 1 (cat was first)

Must be a void thing lmao

Well I am shocked, SHOCKED I say! Well, not that shocked.