You should give Jellyfin a spin as an alternative to Plex.
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I've been using Plex since 2008. I just don't see a reason to change at this time.
umm, didn't Plex have a password breach last fall? It's also started to fill up with junk when they keep moving toward offering streaming tv
Jellyfin works awesome, it has come a long way and i think it has reached feature parity with Plex. FOSS and hardware encoding are free too!
That was many years ago. I had 2FA and use Google OAuth. I don't use any of the features that they keep adding. I tried Jellyfin years ago and I couldn't even cast to my devices in my house. I assume since that's now standard that it supports it. If it's on feature parity then maybe I'll spin up a docker container and check it out at some point.
Same boat on plex. Bought lifetime in 2014. Love it, but wish they’d let me turn off all their random stuff.