Plex just proved it has no idea what users want
… The self-hosting community is uniquely tech-savvy, highly mobile, and completely capable of migrating to competing platforms if it feels like it is being shortchanged. …
… The self-hosting community is uniquely tech-savvy, highly mobile, and completely capable of migrating to competing platforms if it feels like it is being shortchanged. …
… Building your own photo display is the ultimate weekend project Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority This project is a perfect example of why the self-hosting movement is growing so fast. …
… It’s basically the perfect small computer for self-hosting. We treat old phones like e-waste, but most of them are far more capable than the Raspberry Pi people buy for self-hosting. …
… The lifetime subscription was affordable, the platform was focused on the self-hosting community, and it felt like an investment in software that saved me from commercial streaming fragmentation. …
… Whether you are hosting a massive Plex library, a Nextcloud instance, or a self-hosted password manager, you are the master of the entire stack from the hardware at the bottom to the software at the top. …
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… But most importantly, Plex remained intentionally indifferent to social media trends, or algorithmic suggestions — precisely why it became the darling of self-hosting, media streaming, and data preservation nerds. …
… Taking back control of your Plex remote streaming Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority The shift toward subscription overload and monetization in the self-hosting space is a reminder that even the best software can change over time. …
… Homey adds that it tried to avoid increasing prices for as long as possible and claims it is still absorbing part of the added cost itself. …
… Privacy is the entire point of self-hosting Home Assistant, so opening it up to the big bad internet wasn't an option. …