+1 for me too. Managed Accounts to limit accidental deletion ftw. I love this new feature but won’t use it until it’s on Managed Accounts. How about an admin option to allow or disallow it?
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+1 here too, if it’s just that they released it (beta) for us to see, fine, but as many have said, just give the ability to turn it on or off per managed user.
agree that using lower privileged Managed Accounts is how I’ve set up my family.
Seems a no-brainer to add the ability to toggle Discovery in the accounts page in the same way LIve TV is toggled on/off.
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This seems awfully paternalistic to assume that we do not want to give our family members access to streaming services. We should be able to turn this on or off at by our preference.
That whole explanation feels like some weird placeholder reason, because it’s literally the one problem Plex doesn’t have with managed users for this featureset:
If that statement were true, the features would simply be disabled for only Younger Kid profiles until the result filtration kinks get worked out, lol.
What this seems to suggest instead is there’s just custom structural/behaviour work still needed for managed users to bring them to parity with “main” users for this featureset (or some other ‘universal’ difference), and that hasn’t been resolved/shipped in time for launch.
Of course, that’s also just a guess - but it just seems way too funny to somehow land on the one exact thing that is already in the product as a solved non-issue.
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This needs to be available for managed accounts. With a toggle to enable or disable it for all accounts managed or user accounts.
I agree. especially as it’s still listed as beta. So many people getting butthurt about this new great feature that is still being worked on and they will iron out the kinks and get everyone’s feedback in due time. I too can’t wait to be able to enable it on managed accounts but would rather wait than to find my 2-year-old watching sex after dark or something on HBO because it recommended it to her lol
Love the concept of discover but it cannot be used at all by my household until it works for managed users.
+1 Make it a per user restriction item
Well technically it does now if you add an item, as a managed user, to your watchlist.
But that also means any age-restricted, children’s profiles will be able to get it too. Oh, and there are no content restrictions regardless of what you have set up in their profile.
Edited to add: They’ve just fixed the ‘watch more’ part which showed the unrestricted content, though links to other services are still there.
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What people are forgetting, and so is Plex, is that there are families with kids who only share an outside Plex server…my server for example. These families are purely consumers and do not host their own Plex server.
Those families need to be able to control the outside content with restrictions, as well. Plex is not allowing this to happen.
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Perhaps I’m missing something. I added something from my collection on my local server as a manager user to the watch list and it’s still not giving me the discover option for managed users. That discover menu option is available for my master account user.
They have since corrected the issue, since it was showing adult content on restricted accounts for children.
Great new feature, but no chance to test it until it works on managed accounts. Managed accounts are used for adults (and separate accounts for kids, but they have the kids age thing on, so easy to detect). Primary account is exclusively used for admin.
Unfortunately that is not doing anything, which is why the rows of ‘More to watch’ (basically Discover inside of a managed users watchlist) have recently been removed.
+1 I too was thinking this is a great new feature. Keeping a centralized watchlist to all my streaming services, knowing when they are available and linking to it when released. But as others have mentioned, all my users are managed.
Maybe I have to re-visit how accounts work?
“once you understand it could mean your kids might see something not age appropriate.
Imagine the kick back if they released it without being disabled for the managed accounts and found out later the kids are accessing something wrong.”
In fact, it already happened.
So, for sure, for those who would like this feature for the managed users, on option to turn it ON would be great, like for those who don’t, an option to turn it OFF.
I really hope Plex will allow their users to have this choice, because we are on a mines field for now…
Happened and got fixed within 12 hours of it being reported
Not showing the the watch more row is not the same as fixed.
Fixed would be allowing it to be turned off, because Plex can’t be trusted with parental controls.
And what Plex should have done was a rollback while a workaround was applied, but that I’ll just call my opinion.
But don’t spit in my face and call it rain.
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I know, i’m glad they fixed it, but still, i can’t anderstand why my kid had to be a beta tester he never wanted to be.
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