Plex has overhauled its apps from the ground up to make them easier to navigate. The teams says it will be able to roll out new features faster as well.
  • Clent@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    16 hours ago

    Did a quick check of this in the iOS beta and there is no indication of additional enshitification as everyone fears.

    The first tab is the home tab and the first few rows are from my library. I don’t see any option to hide the random noise that comes after it.

    The second tab is the library itself which has the normal rows of various groups, continue watching, recently released, etc.

    There is also a tab for live tv, on demand and discover.

    I’ll probably only use discover because I use the watch list as one of many ways to feed my wanted lists.

  • laverabe@lemmy.worldEnglish
    183·
    21 hours ago

    There are some punctuation errors in your title. It should read:

    Plex is “overhauling” its apps with a redesign and under-the-hood “upgrades”

    Those who use Plex to access personal media will find that their libraries are in a dedicated [hidden] tab, while the Watchlist will take up prime real estate in the top navigation section. Plex says it also streamlined the user menu for quick access to things like your profile, friends and watch history.

    So they’re hiding the entire point of Plex deep in the menu and promoting things that make them money. Enshittification.

  • Saltarello@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    1 day ago

    I’ve liked the sound of Plex forever but after it taking years for the wife to finally be comfortable finding her way around Kodi I couldn’t really try it.

    Just last week I fancied a tinker & I’d heard Plex has potentially begun to enshittify so I ended up putting Jellyfin on our htpc just to test it. As well as all the usual groups, it was simple to create additional collections for stuff only the wife wants to see rather than things we’ll watch together. Within a day or so she’s already flying round it so we’ve pretty much moved to Jellyfin. It doesnt seem to like IR remote control like Kodi does which is a shame & I’m struggling a little with the live TV aspect which was also very straightforward on Kodi but I havent looked too closely into it yet.

    Overall very impressed with Jellyfin.

    • paraphrand@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      1 day ago

      There are so many little fixes and changes they have done over the years. I expect so many edge cases that they kindly took care of not being taken care of anymore.

    • TheBlackLounge@lemm.eeEnglish
      13·
      1 day ago

      It’s a business. Hosting a service to keep connections up isn’t free or trivial. It’s cheap and easy to learn how to maintain though. Get jellyfin and a VPN and a tunnel.

  • paraphrand@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    1 day ago

    I installed the beta. It’s not that bad. My server was the first thing I saw when I opened it. So it wasn’t pushing the other stuff.

    It’s missing a bunch of little things tho, like checking the file properties for an episode or movie.

    This overhaul might live up to their pitch. I hope it does.

  • hightrix@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    1 day ago

    Anyone that has tried the new version, does plex still make it really difficult to view your library by folder/file rather than by meta data?

    I use jellyfin because I can get a folder view.

    • dai@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 day ago

      Yeah I can’t see a file / folder view on the new client. Not that I saw one on the old android client either.

      Must admit the new app is more responsive than the old version on my P7P however having “new on XYZ” service that I don’t have is a shit addition to the new client.

  • gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
    83·
    1 day ago

    If this turns out as bad as it seems then I’ll probably finally be leaving my lifetime Plex pass behind for jellyfin once it rolls out to the Android TV app.

    • veee@lemmy.caEnglish
      7·
      1 day ago

      And a link to the Plex forum post.

      What about TV and big-screen devices?

      The initial preview release is focused on the mobile experience for users. We plan to share a similarly updated TV experience soon. Stay tuned!

  • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 day ago

    None of the people I’ve added as friends ever use Plex. Feels stupid to have that in the UX, and I’m not even sharing what I’m watching with them.

  • asbestos@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    1 day ago

    In this thread posted by Jesus himself: EleventhHour having a mental breakdown fighting everybody yo explain how Plex is better than everything else.
    I don’t even have a take on this, it’s just funny.