They’ve been working on the “new experience” for over a year now…and are still trying to make the UI work decently on Roku. Then all of those changes need to be made in all the other apps.
At their pace of change, I can’t see them getting stuff back to normal for 2-3 years.
2-3 years may be too generous 
You’re right though, it’s going to take a very long time.
I don’t want a “new experience”…
I want simple and straightforward, where I don’t have to THINK about what i’m doing… just click the icon and i’m there.. I had 2 live tv boxes and the favorites used to fall under one nice list.. now you’ve gotta switch tv servers for channel line-up?
I can get through it.. It’s my folks that struggle and that sucks because I use this to help them cut their bills.. so my father isn’t spending $250/month for a cable package and cable boxes where my mother only watches 1 or 2 channels that are both local broadcast and available for free.
I was originally going to say 5 years LOL!
Right there with you. We have begged, pleaded, stomped, kicked, and threatened all to no avail. Plex has a higher power in the form of investors controlling them these days than in previous years. They call the shots and always want a return on investment. Enter VOD trash to monetize. Plex will never return to what it once was. I’ve had to finally give up the fight myself, and believe me I fought for months. Now I’m just waiting for either a better front-end client like this one, or for Jellyfin/Emby to get a little better so I can switch soon.
I would’ve made the switch to emby if they natively encrypted remote streaming connections to clients like plex does. I’m VERY surprised that wasn’t one of the first things they did with building the client/server.
I’ve read that their media updater is single threaded whereas plex is fully multithreaded so it’s not as fast as that of plex..
Kind’ve odd to me that the devs at emby didn’t just think to look at plex and figure out what they’ve done right vs wrong. Just reading over these forum postings would give the emby devs allll the info they need to leap over plex.
Absolutely. I do wonder how their dev team compares in size to Plex. I know Plex isn’t a large team but as you said, the roadmap is already there for someone to pick up the slack.
The problem with encrypted support is if you don’t provide the encryption yourself, then they have to provide it through their servers and the whole point of emby is to keep your server out of their system.
This has the added benefit of if their systems go down, your system is not affected like it currently is with plex.
It’s not difficult to setup and well worth it, or simply connect unencrypted. Either way your server is always just your server and the only phone home is the periodic device count.
Emby is the way it is, not because they can’t or team size but because they won’t do something due to a conscious decision. The convenience of plex compromises your privacy, whereas emby compromises convenience for your privacy.
Ultimately, one must make a choice of what is more important, as you cannot have both and the common mistake people make when comparing the two.
Using Jellyfin. It has annoying niggles. But none so bad as the horizontal libraries. With 12 libraries, it is simply too unwieldly. Will try and see what my 73 year old mother can do. And my wife. Rough times. And one would think a private company like Plex would care about the number of users when trying to sell out all their stupid (my perspective) streaming stuff. Of course, they will massage their numbers and count us lifetime pass users who sustained them through the early years. But now, I am a liability as I am no longer a revenue stream.
Remember when private companies tried to do things right instead of following big business and trying to squeeze ever penny out of their customer base? Good times.
I think I’m going to have a look see at jellyfin. When I read an announcement that says basically “we don’t care how much you liked the other interface, you’re going to use this one, period” I get a little hot. I’ve been a pp customer from the beginning. But not for much longer.
