We have recently experienced a security incident that may potentially involve your Plex account information. We believe the actual impact of this incident is limited; however, action is required from you to ensure your account remains secure. What happened An unauthorized third party accessed a limited subset of customer data from one of our databases. While we quickly contained the incident, information that was accessed included emails, usernames, securely hashed passwords and authentication ...
  • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3013·
    3 days ago

    Meanwhile I made a post asking if plex is bad now and most people on it said “no it’s great I paid for my lifetime pass years ago and its been the best!” Yeah, we know the truth now.

    Jellyfin all the way.

    • icylobster@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      Plex hasn’t been getting better, but it still does what I need. I have a lifetime pass from years ago. If I was starting today I would be a lot less inclined to pay for Plex though. They keep adding things I don’t want.

    • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      254·
      3 days ago

      Seems unlikely that this happened. Most people on Lemmy despise Plex and forgive all the shortcomings of Jellyfin

          • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            1 day ago

            I haven’t installed jellyfin, I’m never installing plex, I would just use samba shares over vpn instead of that.
            I wanted to know what’s the problem with jellyfin ?
            Is it more than the weekend-destroying linux-jankiness ?
            Because I can deal with that

            • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              1 day ago

              I listed three things. I didn’t have the patience to suss out what might be wrong with it because Plex required no fiddling and afaik does not have any open security issues.

        • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          1 day ago

          Well it’s just generally buggy firstly. Glitchy UI for me especially for hours after I started scanning my media library.

          Also it has no built-in system for connecting from somewhere outside your home. You have to manage that yourself.

          Then there’s the fact that it’s got lots of security issues.

            • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              1 day ago

              I left the scan running for an hour or so, came back and it showed, maybe all, of my shows and seasons. However, on certain views, it would not list episodes that definitely exist. The page looked kind of broken. I thought “okay I’ll give it more time”. An hour or two later, same deal. Cleared browser cache multiple times. Nothing worked. Came back the next day and it was “fixed”. But that experience felt pretty janky.

              • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.mlEnglish
                1·
                20 hours ago

                I had something similar when I used XMBC (I think it’s called kody now) and it seems it was because there was some confusion with the scrapper to imdb and it needed some manual override file. You had to create a .nfo file or something like that, that told the scrapper the right imdb number or other exact identifier for it. I wouldn’t be surprised if the people at plex have some way to know of all the custom fixes people do and with that, when you have some issue recognizing some content, they can figure out what most people do.

                I would be surprised if jellyfin has any way to to know what the users are doing so that wouldn’t work

                • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  6 hours ago

                  That’s not what this was though, because it eventually fixed itself. I couldn’t begin to diagnose the bug, but the way I have my stuff organized works in jellyfin, but something about it’s scanner and/or database seems to have issues.