Thanks alot for no movie tonight! 
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No, this is not impossible to avoid.
Components fail, not the entire service.
A properly designed architecture would be resilient enough to deal with component failures such that the service is still available.
This service failure just points to inadequate architecture design / inadequate contingency planning.
When was the last time a robust PKI OCSP or TSA service failed?
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Thanks @axemanuk666! Enjoy Star Wars, and stay safe yourself.
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So far the issue accessing downloads and the ability to claim my server remain. Hopefully the issue they have identified is an easy & quick fix
LMFAOâwell that speaks volumes right there!
Rather than formulate a response assuring the majority of your customers you value and appreciate them and have nothing but our best interests at heart, you ignore us all completely and only respond to the one positive comment in the thread!!
What a joke and way to show your true colors and how very little you care about your userbase.
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The only fix would be to let us not have the Plex online requirement.
Ya, a few tech heads and I have been lamenting about starting up a new pms style client/server setup that is truly independent.
Weâre just starting out, also looking at how to get players for smart tvâs and mobile devices. We figure iOS will be one of the bigger hurdles to jump over.
But the goal is that it is your server to with as you wish, and if your Internet connection up, the server is up, then connections and content will be available. The last couple of plex service failures have kind prodded us to finally look at doing something
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Yeah, agreed.
I can appreciate the need for parts of the online API bits for clients, etc. But, within the local network an outage like this shouldnât be a thing.
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LOL, no. The fix is to put it back to the way it used to be and not have an âalways connectedâ requirement at all.
Itâs not either or and is completely simple.
The best part is, we wonât get the reply we are looking for until itâs too late and alternatives are mature enough for us to all part ways. Itâs very obvious they donât care. They care about the bottom line, and thatâs money. Weâre Plex Pass users. We have zero value to them. Hell, I wouldnât even mind paying regularly for Plex; just not while weâre all treated the way we currently are.
Oh well. Their loss in the long run. 
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Iâm really looking at Jellyfin right now. Going to test it out this weekend.
@elan has made it completely obvious that he doesnât care about us as users whatsoever and has shown complete contempt for us right here in this very thread by ignoring every single comment and only chosing to reply to a positive comment made by 1 single user.
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I donât know it has worked for me every time the plex server went down since i did it. It even works if my internet goes out.
I just even tried unplugging my internet and i can still run my plex content on anthing connected to my local network.
May be you never update you plex server version. Whatâs your PMS version?
I think is more that they need the user countsâŠ
Just the users requirement to pass through their online system makes it seem like they have thousands of online users dailyâŠ
Itâs like clicking to close an ad you didnât even read but you did click it it counts. revenue
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Iâm running the latest version 1.18.8.2527
It also works for me and even for my remote usersâŠ
Plex can be engineered to gather telemetry such as active user count without tying down Plex to be dependent on their servers. 
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Isnât that what I saidâŠ
Iâm not sure I agree that plex doesnât care about users. I get the feeling that theyâve just gone the super corporate route, revenue profit driven, and most of us tech heads are probably not the most profitable type of user.
The plex founders have sold their soul to the silley valley VC crowd, and now theyâre being asked to pay up.
This is a recognizable sequence of events for anyone that has started; or worked in a silley valley start-up and seen the days when Anakin gets turned. 
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