Right. If possible, a double-click on the back button.
If I’m rapidly clicking the back button, I would expect to be taken backwards through whatever click path I was in before it starts auto-popping to the top. Unexpectedly hopping there while just needing to back up a few steps wouldn’t be ideal.
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Then don’t do that 
But seriously, a method is needed to return quickly to the top menu to avoid 6 back clicks to get there to switch from, say, TV Shows to Movies. A double-click makes sense, but I’m open to other ideas (other than a return to the side menu, which we must accept is not going to happen).
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Plex Inc. is notorious for all sorts of shenanigans and consistency of its UI is NOT it’s best historically speaking. You’re under the assumption based on the mere stubbornness of their executive team and writing their corporate apologies in a blog post. They can change their minds on whim, which has happened before.
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Used to be clicking to the left. Just sayin. 
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which we must accept is not going to happen
Not with that attitude. If Plex wants to improve the UI path they’re on, they’re not getting help from me to do it. It’s a UX dead end as far as I’m concerned, and I am migrating off Plex. This whole experience combined with the recent enshittification of other software vendors and their products has made me a lot less inclined to pay for software.
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Looks like that’s not going to happen, so a double-back click seems to me to be the best solution (with what we have) to quickly return to the Top Menu.
Remains to be seen.
This sounds absolutely horrible. I don’t want to intentionally try to move back two menus only to be jetted to the top. Find a different button on the remote. Maybe that little curly arrow one that nobody ever uses?
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I use Plex for Roku exclusively to stream music from my library. The new UI takes far too many clicks to get access to that library. I am an unhappy Plex lifetime user right now
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Yes. There is room in the Top Menu. There should be an option to add a Library to the Menu (which I would also use for Music)
Maybe the “Netflix” or “Disney+” buttons. 
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Seriously, could you get on with it? You’ve been threatening it for months yet keep reappearing to have a whine.
I think we all get it that you don’t like the current UX or the direction that Plex is taking, but they’ve been clear they’re not going back to the old UI. At this point you really either need to just move on or suck it up and get used to the new.
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I have you blocked, so I almost missed your reply. If you don’t like my take, you’re welcome to do the same.
My silence has the price for my official lifetime subscription price and mobile app purchase. Refund it to me, and I’ll leave - but you’re not going to do that are you?
Also, migrations take time. I’ve had to learn how to run an authentication gateway and get OIDC working with Jellyfin. Not to mention all the media metadata I need to keep consistent between Jellyfin and Plex. I’m getting close, but I’m going to complain the whole way because I should not have to put this much effort in.
Additionally, my migration plan requires a missing feature in the new clients, so there’s that. I’m not going to mention what it is in case it changes Plex’s mind in returning it.
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Jellyfin would be my last choice as it’s “developed entirely by a community of volunteers”. (btw, Jellyfin isdescended from Emby’s 3.5.2 release) (I realize that you know this already)
Plex is my 1st choice, but if I were to leave, I would get Emby Premium.
This is a legitimate thing, especially in a world where pieces of functionality aren’t just magically built for you. My next hurdle is figuring out how hard I want to roll on security testing remote access.
An interesting thing happens when you start to roll an open source life. You realize the size of the sandbox you were playing in, and how much more there is out there. It is definitely a harder path, but you get a lot more control in return, and you learn a lot about the tools you’re working with along the way.
I can do a whole hell of a lot more with my Android than I ever could with my iPhone.
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Plex is my 1st choice, but if I were to leave, I would get Emby Premium.
I think Emby Premium is a good short-term solution, but I’m not going short-term with my Plex replacement or going in on another commercial offering that can easily fall to the same ulterior motivations as Plex. (Like I said, I’m becoming a lot less willing to spend money on software now.) Granted, I suppose Jellyfin isn’t immune to that either, but it is open source and there should be some additional insulation there. The web client also supports custom stylesheets, and I can left nav all day long. There’s also something that irks me about Emby’s current UI.
There are also a ton of Jellyfin clients out there so I can pick and choose my mobile UI preference.
Jellyfin is “developed entirely by a community of volunteers”
This is how Linux and many other open source technologies I rely on started. I see nothing of concern here.
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I can do a whole hell of a lot more with my Android than I ever could with my iPhone.
I second this. I run my own cloud infrastructure, and I have the benefit of being a software developer. What I do would not be possible on iOS.
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WE DO NOT LIKE WHERE THIS IS HEADING
Because you had some disagreement to your perspective, I just wanted to point out that I’m on your side here. I really do not like where this is going, and it has Plex’s interests over mine/ours all over the design decisions.
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How do you block a user who has a hidden profile… asking for a friend. 
Only just caught the fact my autocorrect had changed block to boll**ks before I posted. While it was a funnier question I genuinely was after an answer and am not out to cause offense.
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You can go to your profile → Preferences → Users → Ignored and add the username of the user you wish to ignore.
It’s not exactly a block, but it makes their responses extremely unobtrusive and hidden by default in the forum UI.
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