# Better user management

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/better-user-management/781933>\
**Category:** Feature Suggestions\
**Created:** [March 22, 2022, 7:04am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/better-user-management/781933 "2022-03-22T07:04:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2022, 7:23am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/better-user-management/781933/2 "2022-03-22T07:23:30Z")

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Please stick with the feature suggestion forum rules and go with 1 suggestion per post so others (and yourself can vote for the individual suggestions). The same goes for not posting duplicate suggestions .

There’s already existing suggestion threads discussing what you’ve suggested:

> [@\[Feature Request\] Ability to hide "Main User" from Clients except in WebApp](https://forums.plex.tv/t/feature-request-ability-to-hide-main-user-from-clients-except-in-webapp/125750):
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> Hello together, I would like to have the ability to hide the Main User from Clients in Plex Home. In our family we have a children’s library and a library for us parents. As we want the children’s stuff also be hidden from us, we created a user for us, where the children’s stuff is not visible. The Main User is only used for managing the libraries itself. I would like to have the option to hide it from clients. I guess the clients are requesting the list of users anyway while starting, so if t…

> [@disable transcoding (per user setting)](https://forums.plex.tv/t/disable-transcoding-per-user-setting/86588):
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> Hi, &nbsp; I would love to have a feature that would allow me to disable transcoding on a per-user base. I share my media amongst some users but I have to ask them to only directplay (using the plex theatre app on PC/MAC) because otherwise after 4 concurrent sessions my CPU starts to give up ... &nbsp; thanks for considering ! &nbsp; edd-- &nbsp; &nbsp;

You can comment/vote in those existing threads. I’ll therefore close this one as a duplicate.

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