There’s a new Plex UI that they pushed to Android a few months ago that breaks everything, removes options and customizability, requires extra unintuitive actions to get to any self-hosted libraries, and pushes Plex’s Live TV and other junk into prominent UI positions, as I assume the investors and MBAs demanded.
It was released and universally criticized. So Plex’s team thought long and hard about that user feedback - ok, ok, sorry, I couldn’t make it without laughing. They changed nothing and pushed forward and now it hit Roku, with no way to decline or roll back.
I’m a Plex Pass user and we cannot opt out on Roku devices. On Android I was able to roll back the app, since we can sideload old versions and turn off updates.
Interesting. Mine stuff is Apple TVs and I can pin libraries and unpin the defaults.
I have some of those defaults on but I confirmed I can still unpin all of them. On my devices it’s a column of three dots next to each tab.
Only ones I cannot unpin are Search and Home. Home is just a carousel for each of my pinned sources. Which differs on each device.
I rarely use the Home tab but it sounds like that is where people have the most complaints.
I use discover on one my TVs for finding new content. Told plex I have every service and then use their curated lists to watchlist content that is automatically pulled in via radarr or sonarr. If on pin it, it disappears from the home tab.
I also have a pin on live tv because someone wanted to watch local sports so I bought some used tuner thing to play around with it. The live tv interface is weird but home does respect the pin vs unpinned status.
I also noticed there are difference depending on if it’s your library or someone else’s and if the person is in the “Plex Home” a different concept than the Home tab.
I think given more time Jellyfin will likely surpass plex, it’s just not quite there yet. The plex interface is not intuitive. And there is no sign they can fix it.
Most people don’t have the comfort level to play with the options. I’ve had to walk multiple family members through pinning and unpinning each time they’ve gotten a new device.
I honestly haven’t opened the android app for awhile. But I just did and the content from my server was right there on load. Near the bottom was trailers and things from Apple TV. I had to scroll pretty far down to see this and if anything it gave me an overview of what was coming up so I could add them to radarr.
I see no Plex content, I have it disabled on my account. So if it was there I’d be pretty annoyed, but it wasn’t. So whatever.
Wait until you see what they did to the Roku UI.
So Jellyfin… How hard is it to migrate from Plex?
What about it? Genuinely… I’ve been using Rokus longer than Plex, what’s the issue with the Roku version?
There’s a new Plex UI that they pushed to Android a few months ago that breaks everything, removes options and customizability, requires extra unintuitive actions to get to any self-hosted libraries, and pushes Plex’s Live TV and other junk into prominent UI positions, as I assume the investors and MBAs demanded.
It was released and universally criticized. So Plex’s team thought long and hard about that user feedback - ok, ok, sorry, I couldn’t make it without laughing. They changed nothing and pushed forward and now it hit Roku, with no way to decline or roll back.
Curious is this is something that is forced on non members. Plex will die the moment they abuse their members.
I’m a Plex Pass user and we cannot opt out on Roku devices. On Android I was able to roll back the app, since we can sideload old versions and turn off updates.
Interesting. Mine stuff is Apple TVs and I can pin libraries and unpin the defaults.
I have some of those defaults on but I confirmed I can still unpin all of them. On my devices it’s a column of three dots next to each tab.
Only ones I cannot unpin are Search and Home. Home is just a carousel for each of my pinned sources. Which differs on each device.
I rarely use the Home tab but it sounds like that is where people have the most complaints.
I use discover on one my TVs for finding new content. Told plex I have every service and then use their curated lists to watchlist content that is automatically pulled in via radarr or sonarr. If on pin it, it disappears from the home tab.
I also have a pin on live tv because someone wanted to watch local sports so I bought some used tuner thing to play around with it. The live tv interface is weird but home does respect the pin vs unpinned status.
I also noticed there are difference depending on if it’s your library or someone else’s and if the person is in the “Plex Home” a different concept than the Home tab.
I think given more time Jellyfin will likely surpass plex, it’s just not quite there yet. The plex interface is not intuitive. And there is no sign they can fix it.
Most people don’t have the comfort level to play with the options. I’ve had to walk multiple family members through pinning and unpinning each time they’ve gotten a new device.
I honestly haven’t opened the android app for awhile. But I just did and the content from my server was right there on load. Near the bottom was trailers and things from Apple TV. I had to scroll pretty far down to see this and if anything it gave me an overview of what was coming up so I could add them to radarr.
I see no Plex content, I have it disabled on my account. So if it was there I’d be pretty annoyed, but it wasn’t. So whatever.
They are clearly making a shift to bury the user’s libraries to the profit of their monetised content.
I guess they consider that our lifetime pass isn’t enough money anymore.
Enshitification is here, and I’m pretty sure it’s on it’s way to every other platform’s UIs.
So yeah, I guess it’s time to figure out how Jellyfin works.
It took me just a few minutes to set up. 4 folders, TV, Videos, Movies, Music
It would take me more than a few minutes to set up remote access VPN-less, Arr stack and Riven/Zurg to it…
But hey, as a Plex Pass lifetime user Jellyfin still looks like a good second option.