Re:Ask HN: Were you in the early 2000s HTPC scene?
by ev1 on Friday October 23, 2020 @07:25PM
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I contributed a bit to XBMC in the past, and in comparison, .. well, I'm not too sure how to describe this.
Plex is like everything wants to be proxied over the plex.tv cloud, want a plex SSL certificate, tunneling (ok, NAT is common at home and all that) control traffic, $80 one time purchase apps/pass, it feels significantly less like "running a Plex server" and much more like "sign up for a Plex account and link everything to it and link your server to it". Plex Pass also gates a significant amount of features.
It doesn't feel like running your own HTPC/media server anymore, for all intents and purposes it feels like you're paying a Netflix subscription to use your own hard drive, at least to me.
Plex is like everything wants to be proxied over the plex.tv cloud, want a plex SSL certificate, tunneling (ok, NAT is common at home and all that) control traffic, $80 one time purchase apps/pass, it feels significantly less like "running a Plex server" and much more like "sign up for a Plex account and link everything to it and link your server to it". Plex Pass also gates a significant amount of features.
It doesn't feel like running your own HTPC/media server anymore, for all intents and purposes it feels like you're paying a Netflix subscription to use your own hard drive, at least to me.