well said!
I vote for unlimited votes; while I see reasons for both sides, I think you should be able to vote on every feature youād like to see (especially when your vote gets locked up somewhere). If there are 500 features suggestions, you should be able to vote on all 500. If it comes down to there being 500 suggestions that all have the same # of votes, then you could simply create a POLL to figure out the road map order. This is actually the first company Iāve found that limits your ability to vote on things.
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Most of all it comes down to whether PLEX actually cares about the votes. Based on some of the requests that have lots of votes (audio books) vs some that had none (live ad based TV channels), my guess is they arenāt that interested in what we say.
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I donāt even know why they keep the voting system, it is entirely inaccurate if itās purpose is to help developers prioritize features.
My votes have been tied up in feature requests that are all over 2 years old, one is 9 years old 
. So when I create a feature suggestion or see one I like related to a new feature added recently to Plex I canāt vote. Not even for my own feature suggestions, itāll laughably sit at zero votesā¦ I guess my ghost is creating them.
yeah, the voting here is kind of stupid. Voting is supposed to gauge interest, how many people are interested in this feature vs that but they limit your vote, so as you said, your vote gets locked up somewhere for years; you have to withdraw your vote to put your vote somewhere else and then how long will it sit there, thereās no saying.
I provided 2 suggestions, neither of which should be very difficult. One is simply changing a sort by, which should be like 2 minutes worth of work unless their code is whack (like no reusable components, things are copied pasted from one feature to another instead of having shared functionality) or they are trying to over implement and the other is just making a details page that provides a list of information for collections, which also wouldnāt be very hard but itās likely neither option would be implemented until enough people voted, but the people required to vote might find something else more important that may take weeks to implement vs 2 minutes to change a sort by.
yeah, their voting system is kind of stupid.
Hereās what they should do if they want to LIMIT the # of votes you get like they are.
Once a feature is provided, have one of their coders give it an estimate. The estimate could dictate the # of votes required. So for my thing, itās like 15 minutes (unless their code is whack) for 1 feature; so letās say itās 1 hour or 1 story point (if you use that system). They could say, itās 1 story point, so this requires 10 votes to implement. Or you said you wanted a customizable channel that acts like TV, well thatās 100 hours or like 20 story points, this would require letās say 1000 people voting on it before they would invest the time to implement said thing.
This way, people can know that if their vote reaches a certain # it will get implemented vs just having absolutely no idea. Oh that is something I want, but my vote is tied up, let me re-route my vote to the thing that only takes 20 to trigger implementation, then when it gets implemented, I can re-route my vote elsewhere.
Thatās just one thing I can think of doing to help the voting system without putting too much thought into it.
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Hi 2018!! This is 2022 here. Just chiming in to let you know itās the future now. We made it, buddy! We got to 2022, but alas, the fight to have more than 5 votes per person or per Plex product has come with no victory yet. Anywhooā¦ carryon as wasted space! Toodles!
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I do not understand why anyone wants more than 5 votes. Having 5 votes means you have 5 opportunities to be ignored by Plex. (Plex NEVER implements anything until they think of it.) How would having 10 or 20 or 30 chances to be ignored really make life any better for anyone?
Of course having LOTS of suggestions might make Plex feel better. After all it justifies the money they are getting. It looks like there is a lot to do even though we know that nothing gets done until Plex, without prompting, becomes aware of a need be it real or imagined.
I used to believe in āsuggestionsā getting implemented by Plex when users back them but I have now decided that the āsuggestionsā section is there just to keep users from knowing that suggestions are just so much fluff.
I was just being an @$$ hat with my comment above but tbh I really would have thought Plex would have done us ALL a favor and turned OFF the voting system completely. Remember how furious we were back in the day about not even being able to vote, period? it was just tons and tons of singular bump posts lol
While I agree with all the comments here that suggest having a voting system at all is a waste of time considering Plex is unlikely to consider our requests anyway, if weāre given a voting system, why does there need to be a limit on the number of votes? We should unlimited votes to vote for as many feature requests as we want. This definitely looks to me to be a way for Plex to limit how many votes any particular request will get when we have to treat our minimal number of votes like gold and be really particular about where we āspendā them. The support info on votes says we get āat least 5 votesā but thereās no information about how we get more.
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You simply ask nicely. When that fails as, to my knowledge, Plex will not give more votes, you will be able to say, āI asked for more votes but Plex did nothing.ā
Of course it is my belief we should all quit voting at all for almost anything.
āI donāt vote. It only encourages them.ā
āIf we donāt vote will they all go away?ā
Thanks 
Still, that is information they could easily have included in the section about votes. Itās one of my online pet peeves - having to ask organisations for information they should readily provide without having to be asked.
Iāve had more success asking higher-ups at Plex directly on reddit than with anything Iāve ever posted here. Voting seems entirely pointless.
To me it looks like PLEX is going to do one of two things in this order.
- Build out more streaming functionality since that generates revenue and they are not profitable yet and
- Break fix on existing hosted functionality to maintian the existing user base.
I donāt see any future hard core (read that expensive) development on the hosted media side of the product until their cash flow issues are straightened out. So asking PLEX to do something is sort of like that old joke about how do you train a stubborn dog, āI find out what the dog wants to do then ask it to do that.ā
Then, as I asked in the OP, raise our vote allotment. The more burdensome this situation becomes, the fewer votes we have.
It appears the vote limit has recently been increased to 10 votes.
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Iām a lifetime plex pass user, you enshittify your experience and then you tell me I can only vote for 10 features.
Whatās wrong with yaāll?
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Iād vote for this butā¦ya know.
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Iād like this post but apparently they donāt allow that on the OP, only replies? Is this what we are doing now Plex? Really?
Enshittification for sure.
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