Fix the cast & crew pages. Remove crew credits that are not writers or directors

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I’m at a complete loss about all the recent cast & crew changes Plex has made. From removing writers and directors from movie pages to the mess that is the cast & crew pages.

But the decision to merge the cast/crew to the extent we now see minor crew (ex. prop master) and producer credits is just a whole new level of WTF? I’m sitting here looking at the Leonardo DiCaprio cast page. Under the Movies & Shows in Media Libraries it’s filled with documentaries he does not appear in but executive produced. Who is this for? Who sits down to watch a movie and is at all interested in the litany of executive producers attached to the film or who the prop master was?

There is a filmography button on that page for people who want to dive further into this information. The row of movies should not include these roles.

Cast & Crew should be separated into two rows and the only crew that should show up is writers and directors.

The lack of any thought given to the roll out of this is bewildering. The response given to why you don’t want to implement the many, many feature requests that go ignored is that it would make Plex too complicated and not user friendly. How in the world is the mess that has been created since the removal of directors and writers not complicating the user experience?

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It Interesting to believe that it’s plex fault that Metadata is formatted and grouped in this unusual way. I was of the belief Metadata is third party sourced and have no known control on how it’s structured or grouped. Or is it a case all or nothing when it comes to available Metadata?

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Glad you work for them and know what really happens. Us poor 25 Million plus subscribers don’t have the inside briefs on policy and software, welcome your 100% guarantee that all our grievances with Media organization is with Plex only.

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Did you ever stop to think that making a civil request would help more than ranting and raving? The sense of absolute entitlement here is astounding.

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Bob,
it looks like you upset the orginal Poster as their Name and Profile Picture changed.

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I would even go further… I don’t want to see any profile images of CREW on the movie detail page. What was wrong with putting the names of studio, writer and director in a paragraph and make 'em clickable.

The very small hint to a director’s name unter the movie title is plain awful - as well as the list of genres becoming expandable…

What was wrong with the traditional list of genres (and all of them) without the need to click on them?

What was wrong the the separation of crew and cast?

Over fifty percent of directors and even a higher percentage of writers/producers have no profile picture. It is ridciculous to have them mangled together with the cast.

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