Anyone noticing that since Discover and More Ways To Watch got enabled that opening instances of Plex via a browser takes longer for the library etc to show up ?
Quite noticeable. Has lost the snappy behaviour it used to have.
I canāt tell because Iām not using the web browser, but Iāl nearly sure now it uses more ramā¦
This is an unmitigated disaster. I get 2-3 calls a week on this from my users asking why they have to use Hulu to watch something they searched for. This is the final blunder that has me installing alternative media servers. I was skeptical of all the resources being deployed into NEWS! DVR! LIVE TV! MUSIC/TIDEL! but I didnāt really care as it did not impact me so long as the core features that 99% of the people want were not neglected (HINT for Plex Employees who seem to be confused on this: playing video from server to client). The truth is, the core feature set was neglected, which was frustrating, but not a deal breaker.
But now we have this beta feature, that makes no sense. I donāt understand the benefit of showing content not available to watch in the search results. This only serves to confuse people. I have been a broken record here, but if you take the VC money out Plex, do you get any of these changes? No. If Plex was run under the same mission it had when I joined in 2009 this would never have been prioritized. I donate monthly to Sonarr, Radarr, and would to Plex if their mission was to be community supported. I guess the ship has sailed on that. 12 years of promoting Plex to hundreds of people, I own a Plex Hoodie. I am not sure how much more I can take. If it is not broken, stop trying to fix it. If you need to monetize, charge a reasonable amount for the core features to cover server and bandwidth costs (not the dozens of people working on features that 99% of your users mock).
What a disaster. Please build an off switch so I can tell people how to disable it.
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āSomething Wet Wrongā is about the biggest understatement one could make with this feature.
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Has there been any update on this yet? I would really like to disable this.
Read the Plex comments in the feature suggestion thread where you just pointed out how much you hate the features (Big Wheel commented some days ago)
nobody wants this. How can I disable this?! you are showing provacative content to my children, you bastards
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Context? The inappropriate results issue has been solved already, so some context would help because Iām not sure what or how they are seeing it. If they are seeing something inappropriate that definitely needs to be fixed, but there was an issue when this feature started from what weāve heard that was an issue with alternative places not using the method of marking things as āNot For Kidsā that Plex was expecting, so they āSlipped throughā. From my understanding that has been fixed weeks ago & should no longer be happening. If it is still happening the only way itāll get fixed is if you can elaborate as to where, how, etc, because as far as I know, & I believe as far as Plex knows, that problem shouldnāt be happening anymore. So if thereās another hole they need to know where it is, otherwise they will just look at the whole they already patched & say, āNope, it aināt leakingā
Also, just FYI, if they are on a managed account, the ones with restrictions, they shouldnāt be able to see any of these features anyway.
Iām not daymr but āTrending on your Servicesā and āTrending on Netflixā is showing something quite provocative;
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Thanks for the info.
Looking it up itās an R rated Neflix film. Though I wouldnāt want that cover to be visible to kids personally & the description seems to suggest that itās not the most wholesome of films itās still a cover that youād see on the checkout counter at a grocery store or Target.
Donāt get me wrong, I think we should have more control over that & regulating what can be seen, & Iām sure thatās part of the reason it hasnāt been made available for managed users yet.
Would I classify that as āProvocativeā?
Yes, for sure.
But remember, the only people who can see this are Primary accounts, which, according to TOS, must be 18+.
Would I consider that inappropriate for an adult who doesnāt want to see anything provocative?
On that count Iād say no.
The argument that people use Primary accounts for kids, while understandable, I think anything they could see while walking in a grocery store canāt be something that is expected to be protected.
I was thinking it was like the stories I heard about when this feature 1st started & there was actual āCultured Filmsā in the Discover lists.
Plex is no longer what it used to be. It isnāt run by the same ideology that got them here. They are just trying to monetize it at all costs.
Personally Iām trying out jellyfin now. Itās open source and has the ideals that Plex used to have. The nice thing is you can run it at the same time as Plex on the same media library and they work side by side to make transitioning easier. Iām just disappointed in the Plex team and am definitely sorry I became a lifetime Plex pass subscriber. Wish I had never sent these unethical people a cent.
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There is itās called jellyfin. Open source project that is basically what Plex used to before they started to take advantage of the people that got them where they are today.
i am in desperate to figure out PLEXā¦i am trying to set my server up as amazon fire stickā¦amazon states that the services have been delivered to all firesticks yet i am having major issues downloading moviesā¦i have several movies that i have put in my watchlist, but i am being told that to stream the movies; i will need to go through another streaming providerā¦is this normalā¦i didnt get plex to have to download another streaming service and pay another subscription feeā¦pls help and let me know what am i doing wrongā¦it really cant be this complicatedā¦i will take suggestion or help from anyone
Plex doesnāt download movies. Traditionally you access movies you have Ripped or downloaded to a local server, then you can watch them on Plex. From a Firestick you wouldnāt even be able to download much because they only have 4GB of local storage anyway.
The issue you may be running into if you are here is that the search & watchlist tell you that a title is streamable with a service provider, Amazonās store rules donāt let their apps link to other apps (From what I hear) so if it says itās available on Netflix you have to manually go & open Netflix & search for it. Thatās a limitation of Amazonās rules, not Plex, though the confusion is Plexās fault. When it says itās available on a streaming provider you canāt watch it from within the Plex App
interestingā¦we were using a friends log in and had no issues, but didnāt know the history of what needed to be done to watch the movies in his libraryā¦i decided to sign up for a lifetime account and i am lost as to why i cant download anything or get the opinion to download anythingā¦the only thing that i can do is put movies in my watchlistā¦do i have to have a subscription with a movie streaming company (hulu, you tube, etc.) before i can even download the movies that i would like to watchā¦again, we were watching a friends and i donāt know how the movies were loaded, but all new releases were uploaded to the library and we watched movies on our playstation
So your friend had a computer setup with a server app running on it. They had acquired their library however they had & what you were actually watching was coming from their computer in their house. How you go about getting movies is entirely your own responsibility, but you canāt actually get them through the streaming services for the most part.
Many of us use Plex to watch our personal DVD & Bluray collection, we have ripped the discs & put them on our servers. Others use torrenting software & that is in most cases illegal in most countries, so consider that & look at your local laws before taking that route. Plex cannot help you with that or Plex itself would be illegal. There are also more āGreyā areas, like getting discs that your friend or family member owns & ripping them. I personally donāt feel Iām in grey water when I rip my housemates discs & put them on my server, but I make sure to label the files as belonging to each member so when they move out I can remove them so Iām not stepping into grey water.
From your explanation Iād say that the lifetime Plex Pass was probably something that you didnāt need. Plex is free. Most of what you do with Plex is free. There are certain features that you need the Plex Pass for, like recording TV from a tuner you have hooked up to your system, & having better control over streaming to devices outside your home.
Hereās a quick info video about what Plex is:
EDIT: Thereās also the possibility of asking your friend to share their library with your account. Then youād be accessing the same server but heād be able to limit what you can see & how much bandwidth you can use & things like that
Why canāt I either see Discover or the watchlist feature in web browser Plex?
Youāre most likely using the bundled version of Plex Web on your own server. At the moment these features should only be available in the hosted web app (latest version of Plex Web).
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Almost ā extras for movies in Jellyfin need to be in a folder called āExtrasā to associate properly, but that happens to a folder name Plex explicitly ignores in scanning. So you can have extras work properly in one or the other, but not both.
Thanks for the answer. I use LinuxServers Unraid Docker.
