Sorry to disappoint.
Sorry to disappoint.
Itâs not disappointing as much as it is expected.
Plex has slipped into the classic mode of corporate ego: âwe know what our users want more than they doâ
Perhaps 1 out of 100 companies that go down this path make it. Apple did, barely, and only because it had investors willing to watch it fail multiple times before hitting it big. The list of companies that didnât do so well is far, far longer. Remember Saturn? Nokia? Kodak? BlackBerry? etc, etc, etc? How many companies have to fail by not listening to their user base before investors and managers figure it out?
Sadly, this shift toward the streaming market is probably going to be the end of Plex. Theyâre going to lose all of the supporters who were looking for a personal media service and they have no chance of competing in the streaming market with other services who have the power to produce their own content. If Plex thinks that the public wants yet another gateway product that generates revenue through clicks theyâre sorely mistaken . . . but thatâs exactly where they seem to be heading.
Iâm glad you love Plex so much and that it fits your needs to a tee. Iâm astounded that you wouldnât want it to be a flexible platform that pleases as many users as possible so that it has a chance of surviving as a company. Sadly, itâs the die-hards that drive companies like this into the ground. The more glowing feedback management gets from the die-hards the greater their confirmation bias becomes and the closer they get to the grave.
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Name me one company that isnât profit driven?
Do you understand how a market economy works?
Plex arenât doing this out of the goodness of their own hearts, itâs a company, it needs to make money.
A Question, if you have uninstalled Plex why do you still feel the need to come in here an bloviate all over the forum?
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Because at one time he believed in Plex and paid his lifetime subscription and perhaps hopes that one day things will improve?
Not wanting to put words in @Elijah_Baley âs mouth.
And definitely not wanting to take them out of his mouth.
He has every right to express his opinions.
Perhaps those who feel he doesnât should go and polish their tin foil hats instead of spamming threads.
No one is asking for anything incredible here.
Just simply the option to turn stuff off that they donât like.
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So you think that something you pay for should work the exact way you want it to be in perpetuity, especially a piece of software? I think your dreaming
I think youâve got more than enough value out of what you have payed for.
So you think Plex shouldnât keep trying to improve the software that THEY wrote, that THEY did all the work on, that THEY keep on functioning. My question is, why wouldnât you?
Do you understand how a market economy works?
Iâm the founder and CEO of a small, private multi-national company that started in a garage 35 years ago and now has presence in 7 countries and customers in 35. I think I have a pretty darned good idea about market economies and how to grow and sustain a successful business.
Iâve seen companies like Plex go for the quick bucks like this to please investors and fall flat on their face so many times itâs pitiful. Companies survive and grow because theyâre long-term profit driven. You make money by building, not tearing down and setting fire to what you already have in the name of making a quick buck.
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Please.
You know youâre on the wrong side of an argument when you have to put words in other peopleâs mouths.
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When I read stupid post like this one I almost really want to ignore them.
Clearly I bought my Plex pass many many years ago and I had great expectations of where they would go. But I was clearly wrong. If Plex does not want my feedback they can ban me, as they have done with others that called them to task, I am just waiting for Plex to realize that there are many users that do not want or need another and poorer Netflix.
I post here because I keep hoping that Plex will change their direction and return to their roots.
If Plex bans me I will not fight it but if they do not then they are saying they see some value in what I have to say. However, whatever value is perceived must be small because Plex never seems to move, even slightly, in the direction that would return them to their roots. So they are either too dense to realize just how alienating their bloatware becomes every time they make another feature that is duplicated 100s 0f places.
Plex should return to their initial roots and drop all the bloatware crap they have shoved up the worldâs rear.
There is nothing wrong with a company being profit driven, what Plex gets wrong is that they place profits above everything else and then tell everyone that they are following what their users want.
Plex is becoming a company that really makes nothing new except money. They need to listen to Henry Ford::
âA business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.â
and
"There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.â
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Iâm willing to bet itâs not a software company.
According to your ethos no software company ever should try and improve their product, shouldnât look for new feature, just stick to the features when it first released and users started using it.
Okay, sounds like you have no idea at all
Touché
According to this last word salad you posted no software company ever should try to improve their software. Add no features, provide no future benefit.
okay
Please Stephen. Youâre totally off the rails now.
We do indeed produce software as one of our product lines and if I tried to pull the things that Plex has been doing over the last couple of years I wouldnât have that business anymore.
Plex isnât just adding features, theyâre depreciating existing features that people originally bought the package for. This is the point youâre missing. Stop for a minute and actually think about whatâs happening and maybe youâll understand why people are so upset.
Just please stop and think about the things youâre saying. Being a useless troll for the sake of being a useless troll isnât doing anyone any good on this forum.
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So clearly Plex is getting paid per click for these discovery features. Otherwise, why add them, especially in the free version of the server. I wonder how much Stephen3001 gets as a kickback to troll in these forums. Some percentage of that discovery money?
Not that I havenât seen Plex employees openly trolling paying customers here before.
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To all in this thread
Do note, that we do appreciate your views, and we are monitoring this thread, and do collect your feedback, both good and bad!
Do also note, that this is a Beta!
BUT
What we do not like, is the tone in some posts here!
Please remember, that the Plex forums are a friendly place for all
So please think before posting, and as a ref, take a peak here:
https://forums.plex.tv/guidelines
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I for one love what Plex is doing @dane22 . There is nothing you could do that would please these posters.
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I think we would mostly be pleased if we could turn it off. Hence the thread.
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I suspect that itâs more than just the click-through. Info on what program choices youâre looking at is worth good money. For instance, there are a lot of companies out there who happily pay for info on whoâs streaming childrenâs shows so that they can target the parents for child-related products.
Note that the new watchlist is being saved as part of your account info on Plexâs machines and that they have specifically said that they âmayâ start sharing that info with 3rd parties in the future.
Get ready for even more spam in your mailbox.
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Other than just, you know, whatâs in the title. Even you, despite ignoring every other word anybody is saying here, had to have read that much.
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Agreed but Plex hardly help themselves.
I already asked the direct question to @BigWheel half a day ago if the fact that despite having no third party providers enabled, search results still coming up for those providers was an oversight/bug.
The possible responses are *YES/*NO/*Depends on the meltdown.
Clearly the latter is the case. Itâs a great feature for those that want it. I really do get that.
For those who donât?
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It wasnât. The streaming services list just selected the preferred ones so they show up before others
