Discover Together Beta : Announcement & Feedback

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@badelie: Our team reviewed your account again. What they said:

  • After you received the email on December 19, there were a bunch of subscribe & unsubscribe changes made for your preferences for what you receive.
  • At the end of those changes, you were still subscribed to the weekly digest by email.
  • So, you still received the digest the next week, on December 26.
  • After that email, you made more subscription changes and this time you did successfully unsubscribe from the weekly digest.

So, you should be fine going forward now. Apologies for any confusion or inconvenience.

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@chrisc thanks for that explanation. Looks like it was just user error :sweat_smile:

I have another problem you might be able to look into:

One of my Plex friends noticed that in the Discover Together weekly update they are getting activities for both myself (the server admin account) as well as another user who is in my Plex Home.

After digging a bit further, it looks like this Plex friend was also a ‘friend’ of my Plex Home user. But they both say they haven’t added each other as friends - they don’t even know each other IRL.

I asked my Plex friend to remove the Plex Home user as their friend, which worked and they are no longer friends and cannot see their Discover Together activities now.

Could this be a bug in Discover Together beta? Should my Plex friends be able to see activities of my Plex Home users? This seems like a bug.

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After some investigation, this happened because:

  1. You previously added that friend to your Plex Home
  2. When they joined the Plex Home, they became friends with other members of the Plex Home

So, that’s why the accounts had a friendship between them.

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Just wanted to say although I’d love to see more and on the main discover page, I love the popular activity section added on Plex web

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With the fact that Discover can show you up and coming episode release dates will we be potentially getting a calendar view, phone notifications, release dates integrated into our current library? It would be great if I could tract the shows I watch via ply server with potential release dates on a calendar view/be notified of up and coming shows,

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Hey there, just recently was included in this by a friend, few thoughts.

I don’t want to be part of this at all, and honestly wish I could leave the beta totally and never use anything like this at all, ever. I’m also frustrated that I had no choice in being a part of this. A random ‘friend’ signed up and suddenly I’m here without knowing anything about it and no way to not be a part of it. This isn’t okay at all. Realistically you should have just sent me an email that says “Hey, your friend [NAME] joined this beta, and they think you’d like it too! If you want to participate click here, otherwise you can just ignore this and we’ll let you know when the feature is available to everyone.”

Where are the ‘Privacy Settings’ I keep seeing referenced? How can I make sure that nothing on my end is shared with anyone ever?

I see the options in “Online Media Sources” but these all appear to be for what I and managed users see, not what is shared with others. And I see the “Sync watch state and ratings” setting, but again this seems to just be for (like it says) syncing across Plex servers and streaming services that I specifically have access to, and has nothing to do with this ‘feature’ (at least from what I can see). The only Privacy related settings I can find in my account are on the main Account page that relate to general data collection and Ad Choices settings, nothing related to this ‘feature’. If all of the above are the “Privacy Settings” you’re talking about, maybe they should be labeled as such within the app, or maybe stop referring to them as “Privacy Settings” and refer to them as to what they are labeled and provide a clear guide on how to adjust them.

Please let me disable this with a single click. Give me a menu option on the left under Account with a master on/off toggle, then the various settings below that can only be adjusted when the feature is enabled.

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@Simon.Roth You can access your privacy settings by editing your profile. On the Web app click on your avatar in the upper right hand corner and select ‘View Profile.’ Click on ‘Edit Profile’ and you’ll see an option called ‘Privacy Settings’ where you can toggle each individual section on or off. If you mark everything ‘Private’ nothing will be shared with your friends.

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https://app.plex.tv/desktop/#!/profile

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Thank you, while this was easy to navigate to overall with your instructions, I wouldn’t have know otherwise based on the announcement page or anything in this thread that I found with search.

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There nothing forcing anyone to click it. If you want to look at the detail page for a show/movie before hand you can click on the poster or title in activity to do so.. .

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Huh? Was that meant for me?

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So far I had only been seeing the “Activity by You” interface elements in the desktop, mobile, and web app. Right now I’m watching something on my Xbox and it seems there was an update last night and now I can see the activity and messages on my Xbox now and I quite like it.

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Just seeing the section “Your Selected Services” in Discover tab where I can click different streaming services. Way to go Plex, pretty good addition this year. :star_struck:

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I also love the addition of dedicated streaming service pages, however, while the banners don’t look that bad on the web, they look awful on the Apple TV.

The main standout issues I see are pretty simple to fix tbh:

Negative Space
There is simply too much of it, the background art has been crammed in the corner with a very bad gradient to “blend” it together. You already have a black gradient for the text, at this point you may as well just fill the entire box with the background image.

Width/Padding
It’s too wide. When you hover over it, the size gets bigger (expected) but you’ve not taken into account the padding. Currently, it leaves little to no padding on the far right of the screen in comparison with the left side due to the sidebar.

Hover
I’m pretty sure the banner hover animation is waaay to big in comparison to the rest of the items. Not proud of this, but I actually measured it. Going by the first item in a hub, the banner actually gets a lot closer to the icons in the sidebar than the posters.

Learn More
This text is redundant no? You don’t include this kind of text on anything else, so why would you need it here? The box is interactive and anybody that uses plex would automatically assume you can click on it.

Synopsis
I’m happy with having this here, but the width is also a little too wide. It should still be wider than what we see on normal items, but not that wide.

Ratings
What was the design decision to not include any ratings on this element? Such as Rotten Tomatoes and the other sources you have? Even the age rating would pretty useful here :man_shrugging:t3:

Sorry if they sound a little nit-picky, but the designer in me can’t look past the imperfections. Like, the main reason I use Plex is because it has the better UI/UX :smiling_face_with_tear:

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Are there any future plans on Discover to support sharing activity with friends of friends? It would be nice to have that option.

I have around 13 users of which half of them are on my plex home. The home users love seeing each others activity (ratings, playing activity, watchlists etc), but in order to view the rest of the users that I have shared my libraries with, they need to add each other.

Having an option to share your activity with the friends of your friends or better yet everyone that has access to the same libraries/server would be a nice addition to my opinion.

Keep it up!

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Would love to see Music added to this, that content is easily my most rated

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It is something we are looking into yes.

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The issue with music is is a privacy one in that we do not maintain our own database of music. and we don’t want to know what you have on your server

The Discover Together data including ratings data is stored on cloud and will match what we have on watch.plex.tv ( even if we don’t have it to stream ourselves)

If you rated Antman we don’t know where you rated it cuz you could just be marking it as watched or giving it stars on watch.plex.tv. We purposely don’t keep it where it happened

If you rated music we could easily infer you have that album or track on your or a friend’s server since that would be the only place it could come from.

A music database is so huge with so many variations of tracks/albums we just can’t maintain that sorta DB right now. Maybe some day but I don’t want to make false promises

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Ok, think I understand, but isn’t the database for movies massive also?

How about sharing music ratings on a single server, it’s all stored in my local database for my user so can’t that be shared with another user who accesses my server? Why does the cloud need to be involved in that?

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