Yeah, that seemed like they were quite deliberately taking the p*ss.
I agree.
I looked at other options (before the New Experience and recently) , and it wasn’t the PITA of switching, the alternatives with a side menu were not as polished as Plex (…and there is no guarantee that the alternative won’t also move to a Top Menu in the future)
I just resigned myself to the change. For me, a second in the UI to watch a 30-60 minute TV Show or a longer Movie isn’t a deal breaker
I imagine I’ll be able to adjust to the navigation (still waiting for it to hit tvOS), but the app better be solid otherwise - no crashing, errors, player not having issues, etc.
I do have to saw that the app seems pretty solid on IOS now.
This is just downright insulting. IT DOESN’T MATTER WHAT THE DEFAULT VIEW IS!!! I don’t only go to the default view! I go to different views at different times. The point is the view navigation selection is a mess, requiring a combination of “hovering” over some items and waiting (which is terrible UI to begin with) and actually “clicking” on other items with no real indication of what action needs to be done at what time. This idea that if I change my default view, maybe I’ll accidentally click on the right thing and the UX problem will just “go away” is a bit ridiculous. This type of dismissal is why your customers are frustrated with this change.
For me, this is a deal breaker. I don’t run Plex to watch the movies. The movies are mine. I can watch them whether I run Plex or not. Plex IS the UI and if the UI and is struggling at it’s main job.
I will say Plex is lucky I already purchased a lifetime subscription back in the day. There is no way I would pay $750 for a mobile/TV UI in the state it’s in today.
With the UNO UI, I would would have been wiling to pay for incremental feature upgrades - that doesn’t upset me.
Oh, I can pay a one-time fee of $3/4/5/6/700 for the game streaming update? Sure, ok. But as a subscription? Absolutely not - and that’s why I didn’t do it at the time. I feel like the future of Plex for self-hosters would have been these paid incremental updates.
But once again, that’s only with a fully functional UI that doesn’t force obnoxious UI/UX dark feature paradigms.
100% this.
I’m lucky I purchased a lifetime pass back in the day.
Didn’t really need it then (I only have the server for myself), but I used it enough that I didn’t mind supporting Plex “back in the day”
I had nothing but praise for plex for years. Then they ditched Tidal integration, which sucked because at that point I’d just paid for lifetime, but I was still a fan and would still encourage as many people as I could to get on board.
Then they obliterated the roku interface, removed watch together, nerfed the android app, doubled the price, took away remote streaming without a pass, keep adding unwanted elements which can’t be disabled, fired any useful staff and generally started treating their customer base like utter crap. I now actively encourage anyone interested to look elsewhere.
The crazy part is all these fee hikes and mo/ subscriptions is going to pay for the dev of features and 3rd party streaming plex users never asked for.
