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I've shared my plex sever with about two dozen other people over the years, and altogether they've maybe consumed about 3 hours worth of content before never coming back. I have access to about half a dozen plex servers and haven't watched a single minute of their content.
So, a question to plex users: Do you watch content from other people's server at all?
no, unless it comes with an airbnb or something. i think the UI discourages less technical people and the technical people have their stuff on their own server.
i don’t watch content from anyone else’s usually but mine usually has three minimum streams going at once. the beauty of a gigabit uplink
I do not, but also I don't know anyone else with Plex rofl. my personal life is not filled with techies.
I usually default to another friend’s Plex but it’s handy to have an anime and toku source
i don't, but i also have my own home server so it's kind of pointless. if I didn't have my own home server, I imagine that might be different -- but I think the amount of plex "non-server-owner users" is probably pretty small overall? despite the plex company's attempts, it's still a pretty niche piece of software
I see what happened: Aside from exaggerating a small bit, you've consumed so much media you've landed in spot #4 and I just assumed the first four users were my home users.
i have no plex of my own but regularly watch two of the three i have access to (the third one only really gets skipped because the libraries have lots of redundancies)
My Plex is full of 4K HDR stuff at very high bitrates and the server isn't amazing at live transcoding, plus my uplink is ok but not great, so watching outside of my house doesn't work super well, I assume that's part of why people don't watch stuff on my server. I've seen more listening to music, but not too much of that either.
Personally, I don't watch on other people's Plex' mostly because I haven't really needed to, I have everything I want to watch on my own already.
