Will you Devs please reinstate the plugins functionality? Do you not care what your users wish or will you continue to be dictorial in your developments and upgrades which continually strip the usefulness of what the OLD PLEX offered? I relied on Plex and its plugins to meet my needs. Now Plex no longer meets those needs without the plugins. I have moved onto EMBY as it is the same as Plex now in functionality, but with a better layout and UI. Why in the heck would you kill a once popular app, only to constantly degrade its features we all used to love (PLUGINS) to give us your average run-of-the-mill server? Makes no sense, especially when you have pissed off enough of us to leave your software and switch to your competitors. At the very least put up a download page where we can roll back our versions to something that used to work for all of us. I have a server setup on my WD PR4100 and have tried with no luck to find a version prior to 1.17.
Please add a download page so I can at least re-install an older version that works with plugins.
Plugins going away was announced in September 2018
For security reasons that arbitrary code could run on your system with a plug-in and according to Plex the low adaptation rate plugins have been phased out.
I agree they were a good piece of Plex but if you change nothing, nothing will change, the only thing constant is change and other sayings as such…
Streaming feeds that belong to someone else - without payment or permission is, unfortunately Illegal.
Plugins and what they provided are gone, but you can get what Plex does now - Ad Supported Content out the ying-yang - and all that is absolutely legal and free.
Enjoy!
I know when the plug-ins were eliminated and your reasoning why. Security issues and risks should reside with the user, not you folks should we wish to use plug-ins. I run my own server and not your cloud server or hardware. It should always be the end user’s choice to use these plug-ins. I really don’t see the issue if I am the one willing to take the risks using a plug in. So to sum it up again, give us the option to roll back the server version by providing us with a download section so we can choose ourself.
Don’t forget the legal implications. Kodi was caught up in lawsuits due to plugins that allowed illegal streaming / downloading of content. Kodi did not provide the plugins, but they did provide the platform that allowed the plugins to exist. One can debate whether or not Kodi bore any responsibility (I’ve no idea how the lawsuits turned out), but the time and cost of such lawsuits could easily sink a small company. AT&T’s legal budget is several times the size of Plex. It would not matter who was right. They could sue Plex into oblivion if they desired and it wouldn’t cause a blip in their quarterly numbers.
Posting old versions of PMS would open Plex to the legal issues surrounding plug-ins. It would also be a support nightmare. Current clients would most likely not work with older versions of PMS (and the same for old clients & current versions of PMS). Also, much has changed on the back-end. Matching, downloading of metadata, etc would probably not work (or not work well) for old versions of PMS.
I’m not sure what’s going on lately, but everybody who has switched to Emby/JellyFin/______ still wants to complain about Plex. Quarantine boredom? People who miss complaining in person are doing it in forums now?
I’m happier with Plex than ever. It isn’t perfect. I had to do my own laundry earlier today.
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