The only time I ever fell for a "lifetime" software purchase was back when Trillian (the IM client) was popular. That lasted less than 5 years. Then they released "Astas", which was just a UI refresh, but they treated it like it was a whole new company and product. "Lifetime" is always a scam.

[–] ShortFuse@lemmy.world 55 points 8 months ago (20 children)

I'm enjoying my Plex one and Nexus Mods. The latter one was in 2013 and cost me $40. Today the yearly subscription is $70.

[–] criitz@reddthat.com 43 points 8 months ago (9 children)

I got a Plex lifetime sub back in the day. They never got rid of it, but they did enshittify the product out from under me.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Same here, although I'm still using it. It's doing what I got it for and some of the additions are welcome (I use live TV fairly often and some friends and I are sharing libraries) but I have been concerned. What made you switch and did you find something better?

[–] criitz@reddthat.com 6 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I still actively use Plex, but I've been trying Jellyfin. It's almost there but still has some work to do to catch up to Plex fully. However, its wonderfully free from bloat. I can't stand all the crap they've added to Plex. Especially when I search for content that's IN MY LIBRARY and the result it sends me to is a streaming service I don't even have. 😡

[–] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I still find myself using Plex for its native DVR functions. NextDVR alway seemed a little bit buggier, after finally getting an IPTV source working in Plex I went back (at least for DVR stuff).

Edit: forgot to add, Plexamp and the way Plex does its sonic analysis is worth the lifetime subscription cost to me.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 2 points 8 months ago

Yeah, I have never really used search for that same reason, I don’t have enough to lose track of anyway.

Thanks for the reply though. I hear about jellyfin a lot and my needs are simple so I’m gonna give it a go.

[–] Zuberi@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 7 months ago

Plex is such ass

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