Home users get the rest of the plex pass perks, so why not this one too?
It’s there for my home users.
Home or managed?
Managed users are Home users, but I see what you mean. A Managed user gets the Skip Intro, but an unmanaged user in the Home does not.
I’d say it’s a bug, rather than a feature request. I don’t think that’s the intended behavior.
I believe the blog post stated it was supposed to be that way, unless I’m reading it wrong?
I hadn’t read it, but now that I have, I see your point (not in the blog post itself, but the support article it refers to).
A non-managed user in the Home must have a Plex Pass of its own. That’s an odd departure from previous requirements.
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Very! Which is why I’m hoping this gets some traction to make the plex team change their minds
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Stop the un-managed home user discrimination!
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Exactly haha
this started with plexamp/dash (un managed home users requiring plex pass).
it probably won’t end with skip intro unless enough people get upset about it.
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From what I’ve seen around the forums and reddit, alot of people are annoyed by this
Well color me upset. Unless they wrote the underlying code themselves, which is a long shot. When I tape together a bunch of other open-source stuff I give it away the way you’re supposed to. Then again, I don’t have a user base that’s unlikely to go elsewhere after investing hundreds or thousands of hours into customizing their implementations of my software. Nice Apple move Plex! Squeeze us good!
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I use both of those and didn’t even stop to think of whether my home users would be able to use them; was so used to them having the same access to client features as me.
Wonder if no one ever tried to use them or they just didn’t ask me about it.
It’s an interesting approach; I’ll give it that. I imagine the list of explicit Plex Pass features will continue to grow, and eventually users (of users with servers) might start paying for them. Once they have a Plex Pass they’re more likely to setup a server themselves since they’re already paying for it. Then they get hooked and spread it further! Ahh ha ha!! In the meantime though it’s just a big price tag on a music player (that I like, a lot, but that has access to like 30 million fewer songs than Google Play Music for the same monthly price) stapled to a media server they probably don’t want or really need. Hope it works out for them.
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Afterthought: What if Plex had a commission program?
+1 - it’s very annoying. I can’t ask all of my (unmanged) home users to buy a plex pass
I use an account that is detached from the server account for viewing Plex. Why should I buy the Plex Pass twice for the same features I am using once?
We shouldn’t have to request Plex extends all Plex Pass benefits to Home users, it should already be implemented.
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Thanks for the support all, the Plex guys don’t seem bothered, looks like it’s all about the money these days.
Support. This is a backwards way of thinking even if you are plex. I ask people in my house to sign up for plex rather than managed user because every housemate I’ve ever had has become a plex user / most have purchased and made their own servers after they discover Plex.
These people don’t want to lose their watched status / progress on my server once they move out (I enable them remote access). Why encourage people to NOT sign up to your platform?
Actual home users are different from managed users AFAIK. Home users share the benefits while the other doesn’t. I believe that is done on purpose because that means if you want to use it outside of a home user, you’ll need to pay for it like the rest.
Not that I can think of any one I know that would pay a monthly fee just to skip an intro, but hey to each his own!
I just invited my girlfriend into my home, set automatically sign in to true to get around it, can’t paywall everything… But yeah, I’ll +1 this because I feel like it is a bit silly to throw a skip intro function behind a payment system either way. It isn’t like people will suddenly flock and pay just to shave up to 10 whole seconds off their watching session(s).
