I have no need of any recommendations to my collection on the Home screen (or in fact any screen). The Settings -> Libraries page allows me to turn all of these off, which would be great, except that if I do that, the Continue Watching section also disappears! I can turn on any other item (for all individual libraries) and this will reappear, but why do I have to do this? Currently I have chosen Playlists (because it is empty), but this ends up very scruffy with 5 empty playlist sections under the Continue Watching box. What am I doing wrong here? This can’t be a rare desired use case? Literally, show me what I am watching on my Home screen and nothing else.
My elderly parents (who share my Plex server) constantly ask me why things are popping up on their TV (which I obviously can’t exactly see due to Covid restrictions). I assume that these are things that I add, but they have no interest in (despite me having turned off these settings for them too). Honestly if Buffy the Vampire Slayer is not the ONLY colourful thing on their screen then they have difficulty finding it!
Further to this, how do I remove the Recommendations screen from within an individual library? For example, when I (or my parents) want to start a new show / film we have to click “TV” on the left bar, then wait for a Recommendations page to load (so that controller clicks register properly) and then move to Library EVERY TIME. I have the Remember selected tab option checked, but it doesn’t work. I have also turned everything off for every library in the settings, but then Plex just shows a screen telling me to turn recommendations on?!?! Why not just take the hint and if I don’t want recommendations about my own library, just immediately load the Library tab? Surely nobody actually thought that this was good UI, but equally, it serves no marketing purpose (I’m already a paid up lifetime member only using my own content), so I have to assume that I am I missing something and Plex aren’t intentionally trying to annoy people?
