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
    01·
    1 month ago

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

    • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      1 month 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.

      Edit: there’s a second bug which they’ve known about forever as well which is that Plex can’t select the correct audio track no matter which one you select. It’ll just pick English always (or perhaps the default/main track or whatever it is in a video container). Jellyfin handles this flawlessly. 👌

      • belunos@lemmus.orgEnglish
        01·
        1 month ago

        Is it any better on a streaming box? Most smart TVs are slow as shit at everything. I have an LG and haven’t even bothered with the smart functions. If I made decisions, smart TVs would be best effort, always.

        • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
          0·
          1 month ago

          I don’t know what a streaming box is exactly but,

          Most smart TVs are slow as shit at everything.

          I don’t think that’s an excuse when all you need to do is show some pictures and text on screen, not even animate them. The video playing part works great, and streaming at UHD HDR 5.1 works fine. It’s just the navigation part that Plex doesn’t do well.

          And like I said, it’s even less of an excuse when Jellyfin doesn’t have the same issue on the same hardware.

          Another indication that Plex is doing something shitty is that the TVs own screensaver frame rate stutters when Plex is the open application. But not with any other app. So Plex clearly has some kind of working loop in the background that completely fucks its performance.