Because I don’t know if that’s intentional or not.
You should be seeing your media
I can only see it from the My Libraries tab, so I guess this must be a bug.
Have you favorited your libraries? Tap “My Libraries” a second time > See All Libraries > Heart icons.
Why does that matter? Shouldn’t it at least show what I’ve been watching under the “Continue Watching” section regardless of what libraries I have favorited? Instead, it’s only stuff from Plex’s AVOD in that.
Well, sure enough, after favoriting those libraries, it shows up in my Continue Watching. So this isn’t a bug, but just bad UX. Please change this, Plex.
In the existing apps, if you unpin a library from the sidebar, its content is removed from the home screen (including from the continue watching hub). The behaviour introduced in the Experience Preview is effectively the same in that regard, but instead of pinning to a sidebar, you’re now favouriting in the library picker 
In a future update, we’ll be streamlining things to make this a little more intuitive though, including possibly
- an onboarding process to help you pick your favourite libraries the first time you launch the app, and
- migrating pinned libraries from the existing app to favourite libraries in the new one (this isn’t possible in the Experience Preview due to it having a separate application ID)
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I have libraries that I don’t want showing up in my home page so I’m quite happy that you need to pin/mark as favourite for just the specifc ones to show up. Alternately, show all by default but ensure there’s a way to unpin the libraries that you don’t want showing.
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I’ve used the pinning system to keep track of what libraries I want on the sidebar so as to not cram it up with too many, and I did not know that unpinning a library would also hide its contents from the home screen, because I expected the feature to just do what it says on the tin: pinning it to a given place. As a user, I might not want all libraries taking up space in the sidebar, while also wanting to be able to see all of my content in the Continue Watching section and on other parts of the Home screen. These two shouldn’t be mutually exclusive. In my opinion, the solution to this would be a separate “Hide from Home” option for libraries that you might not want to be seen there, and the pinning feature just becomes the ability to pin a library to the sidebar and nothing more.
Great news! That option already exists in your library’s advanced settings.
Great! Then why is the functionality duplicated?
I’m not sure I follow. What is being “duplicated”?
What I mean is when a library is not pinned/favorited, the contents of that library don’t appear on your home screen in the same way the other feature you mentioned works.
But the library setting allows you to pin/favorite the library without it showing up on your home screen. Like I want quick access to my personal home videos library, but I don’t need to see my family videos on my home screen. Unpinning means I don’t have quick access to it.
The problem is that with the way it’s set up now, the inverse of that isn’t possible. You can’t hide something from the sidebar whilst allowing it to show on your home screen.
However, I’ve noticed that because the preview removes the sidebar, favoriting functions as I described where it only shows/hides it on the home screen, making this largely a non-issue.
I still think it would be better if libraries are shown on the home screen by default and hidden at the user’s preference, because most people will want their important libraries visible there in the first place, and the libraries they don’t want there will be few and far between. That said, it would be nice if pins could be carried over as favorites so that no other users get confused upon first opening the preview like I did.
Correct, the inverse is currently not possible.
I was merely responding to your “solution”.
