And that’s why this thread borders on needing to be locked due to near mutiny almost once a month.
There’s a fresh batch of enraged server Admins on a near biweekly cadence who feel they aren’t being heard and are constantly being dangled a carrot.
Considering the CTO & Co-Founder said it “won’t be a year” in July of 2020 the timeline is getting pretty thin.
Already there im saying nope that is a horrible idea, where was the magic
I think this solves all of those cases. The admin chooses. It’s our hardware, and our labor that goes into maintaining it. If the user doesn’t like it, they’re free to find another server or start their own.
I think what you keep describing would be excellent, but there’s no ETA, no concrete idea of how it works, and no guarantee that it will work well (see other ambitious Plex features). And in the meantime, we server admins suffer.
you think its a great idea? what he descibes is the auto adjust feature that is already in the server settings, which does what he stated last, “allowing them to control their data usage” have you ever tried that feature just once? it really is “allowing them to control their data usage” because it jumps up and down in connection, even tho the connection is stable. Im sure they gonna fix that but damn there is alot of problem with that thing
Its not the first time he have said something like that and 3 years later we still havnt seen it work
I did mention further back, but what we’re working on will likely replace that existing feature in the future.
I thought so but, that is really some scary stuff you telling. that feature has its own life. And i hope its a complete rewrite of the thing. But can you atleast tell us when plexpass users can beta test this. like the first time you talked about it was in marts and now we in the middle of june. can you atleast give us some sort of ETA? October? Early 2022? mid 2022? Late 2022/early 2023?
We don’t give timelines as a general rule, I’m afraid
We don’t give timelines as a general rule
haha, because plex much prefers this type of rage when customers are left in the dark for years
Dave i thought me and you was about to be pals… Well thats disapoiting. Im gonna ask you this question as my last then. Have you considered atleast letting us in on the project help you fine adjust it and work with you on it instead you just testing it enternaly? wouldnt it be nice with some user feedbacks?
That’s not really helpful or constructive. I’m all for having a healthy and constructive conversation, but that doesn’t really help anything
We will be inviting external folks from here to test it once we think it’s in a state where we’re happy to get more feedback on it from outside, until then, it will be internal only.
neither does the the old we don't give timelines line
but there it is
Okay thats really good to hear you atleast know the value of external feedbacks. But then again the way you fraise it, just makes me more sceptical about how far you guys is in this process. So is there any chance you going out of this forum today thinking yes this is going to be mine and my team primary task from now on until its done?
I personally use an Intel NUC, and know many other folks who do, which are simply consumer-level devices, and have QuickSync available. Most Plex users are not using Xeons or enterprise-grade hardware
Most plex users also don’t need a transcode but get one by default.
Sign me up, more than happy to test and give (constructive) feedback 
I would be very interested in testing this change.
Once we have something we’re comfortable with for testing, we’ll have a way for folks to sign up, as we have done for the new Downloads feature for Android
