Even if you are logged in, the links at watch.plex.tv don’t show that a title is available on a server you are connected to.
When you then add a movie to your Watchlist from a watch.plex.tv link, it opens a new tab, forces you to login again, and then simply takes you to your home page.
The link between watch.plex.tv and app.plex.tv seems too disconnected.
I agree the new feature is pretty cool, and I’ll enjoy using once my Friends get engaged. For those who are having trouble getting their friends to participate, or are concerned with security, here’s something you can try. For testing, I’ve created several free email accounts, and several free PLEX accounts, one for each email. I’ve been watching, watchlisting and rating both Movies and TV Shows from multiple browser…e.g. Chrome, Firefox and Safari…each one using a different email login. This give me realtime activity so I don’t have to wait on friends.
Have fun!
Some initial feedback:
Overall content restrictions per account: There doesn’t seem to be any way to restrict a child’s Plex account to only display family-friendly content on the Discover page.
Name field for friends: It would be nice to see first names or nicknames of friends in addition to their usernames, and not just those connected via our Home setup.
Activity feed needs a more concise, filterable display: The cards in the feed are so large, I have to scroll a LOT to find what I’m looking for. Adding some filtering/sorting capabilities (e.g. by type of activity, user(s), date range) would be a huge help here, as well as a dedicated space for my own activity.
Better management of watchlist content: It would be helpful to add this capability to bulk-actions. I would like to select multiple items and add to/remove from watchlist.
Allow me to set a watched date when marking media as watched: Generally if I’m pressing this button, it’s because I watched the item in the past, not just now. There’s also plenty of content that was watched on or near its release date, so this option would be very handy.
Integrate “watch from these locations” into individual media pages: Much like the new Editions view on the media page, I’d like to know if the content I’m viewing is available elsewhere, or in another format, without having to navigate to the Discover page for that item.
Allow me to recommend or review items: This would be cool as a list on the main Discover page — recommended by friends or highly rated. It would also be great to see friends’ ratings on individual items, without having to navigate to another page.
Lots of good comments and feedback from folks in this thread. A few others that I have:
(1) Allow a default “Tab” to be set for the Discover page, or general reordering. I.e., I would much rather have the “Activity” page be default, as opposed to the standard “Trending” page (particularly as it shows ups on the homescreen, when pinned).
(2) Allow as server owner to hide all activity from specific users.
(3) Improved UI of Activity cards and use of real estate.
Definitely should not need to sign in again. Can you provide some more details?
@Pterisaur Thank you for your feedback. Just a couple things:
Managed users do not have access to the Discover page. We are looking to improve our parental controls. I assume you are referring to a child who has a Plex account (signed up with an email address), is that correct?
Those users would need to input those fields on their account.
As for the rest of the feedback, sounds good to me 
. Thanks again!
Are push notifications still off? I started getting the daily summaries today. Very limiting in terms of engagement without the push notifications, my current circle of Plexians are not really engaged unless I send the same in our Plex text thread. 
Just had bad experience with this, any reviews / comments simply NEED a spoiler check-box (or prompt) for the loose lips in my social circle 
It seems only viewed media that is in a library using the latest Plex Agents is being logged under Activity. This applies to all of my users, as well as myself. Is this the expected behavior?
yes. the GUIDs from the new agents match the GUID for items at watch.plex.tv which is why we can do this without knowing what is on your server as things could be marked as watched manually even if you don’t have it on your server.
Interesting. If I upgrade to the latest agents would the Activity be updated retroactively?
yes it should. need to remember to refresh all metadata for library after upgrading library to new agents.
Thank you very much. That has to be the fastest response to a forum question I’ve ever received.
This is a great update and I really hope it continues to be improved upon as time goes on.
One slight disappointment is that this seems to put an end to any hope of official Trakt/Letterboxd support. While it’s great to finally be able to have these social features within my Plex circle… there’s a lot of us that have a wider circle of people we’d like this to work with beyond just those we share Plex with.
Another is that it really sucks the years of watch history that is in Plex and many of us also have on sites like Letterboxd/Trakt that is lost. It’s my understanding that when Plex sync only syncs one play on initial sync. (While sync is a separate feature, it ties into this one)
Initial Suggestions:
Trending Page:
Activity Page:
Reporting Issues:
Managed Users:
Ratings Page:
Other:
Questions:
currently the only other place is the activity for the particular item but easier ways to surface reports and someway to mark them as resolved is of the many things feedback has been given on and we want to do.
Ditto on this suggestion. Especially if a new user starts going through stuff they’ve watched before joining Plex and rating it, that activity page is going to need help staying uncluttered.
Another one I’d like to see is mini-reviews. Perhaps comments tied to ratings with a character limit and spoiler tag. These could then populate the area on item detail pages alongside RT reviews, if the spoiler tag is selected the review doesn’t show until after the item is marked as watched.
And the ability to block specific friends’ reviews from showing in your activity feed and item detail screen… thinking of situations where you have a friend who constantly forgets to enable the spoiler tag, uses bad language, has awful reviews :P.
So. I have concerns about the email part of this feature, from a security and spam mail perspective.
I believe that the email feature should be something that can be turned off at the server level.
I understand that each user can unsubscribe from those emails, but in general email is insecure, so I’m concerned about this watch history being recorded and broadcast through that medium. Push notifications through the app with a daily or weekly digest would be fine, but I’m worried about email…
The data does not come from your server. We don’t know where someone watched anything.
