@anon18523487 is that a planned feature for the future? Are we going to see ‘watch from these locations’ in our personal media or was that a weird bug?
Obviously the code is there, somewhere.
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It is part of the Discover feature. It was wrongly showing it for your local content. You should only see information from Discover if you are in the Discover section or you do a search and have “More ways to watch” enabled.
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Thank you.
While we can see that devs are working on things we may not want, do you have any update about how is going the fully disable it ?
As @anon5074910 said, soon it will be 2 mounth, even in the beta branch we don’t see anything coming
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I doubt you will see it in the beta branch as I expect it will (eventually) become an account level option, like disabling all the online content.
But as for when… based on what I have seen recently it could be a while. I hope not, but it has been a while since they said the search results page was coming back…
Yup, I use Plex solely for music, suggesting i watch some TV, nah
This needs to go away, it is not received well, its implementation in the search results is very poor and it confuses users.
Please give us a global option to disable it, or if you want to get creative: give us the option to disable it for certain users.
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We have been told that it is going to be made disable-able at an account level. You won’t be able to disable it for a different user, but that user can disable it for themselves & it will disable on every device.
A suggestion has been made for the ability for a user to choose if they want to inherit those permissions from a server, so hopefully that’ll happen, but expectations are low
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The bug showing Where to Watch for future episodes is now fixed in the newest beta.
- Preplay: don’t show “watch from these locations” section for library items with future release.
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Anyone know an ETA for when we’ll get a proper disable toggle? Seems like it’s been a while…
It has. We’ve specifically been told that they won’t give us an ETA
Welcome to the world of Plex, so many things promised with no ETA and then the months (or in some cases even years) roll by and still nothing…
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As if the vote system actually works…I have seen so many features with 1000+ votes come and go and never get implemented.
Plex has gone corporate.
That’s how the feature suggestion forum works. It’s suggestions and the votes give Plex an indication what the (active) community wants.
As for this specific suggestion, Plex have commented there’s going to be an option to disable certain aspects on account level. As usual, no ETA.
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With respect that would be true if the restriction on 5 votes was lifted. The whole feature request system is flawed. There are many many suggestions I’d vote for but can’t. It’s also off topic so I’ll stop there!
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I think what he meant was that the number of votes gives Plex an idea of how many people want this. It’s not a “We’re going to do 1 of these which do you want” In the past the forum part has been used to give suggestions on HOW it might be implemented, things we’d like to see, & that stuff. They still have to find a way to do it.
This one that’s pretty easy. Why it’s taken 2 months to not implement is a very good question, Others may have a lot of votes, but no definitive way to do it. Like the Multiple Cuts of movies. There are 1600 votes for it, but of those 1600 votes there are 800 different ways people want it to be implemented. It’s been there for 10 years & it’s still waiting because Plex hasn’t thought of a way to make them & as many others happy yet, or there hasn’t been one suggested that they are willing to accept.
They told us “it’s coming” to calm the flames, but I have suspicions they have absolutely no intent on bringing this in.
A toggle switch should have been a one day project to roll out. And here were are.
The “Welcome to this new feature” popup we got on every single device, also didn’t have a “no thanks” button.
Tin foil hat time:
They want to use this service to sell ads in the near future, and if we can disable it, it will lower the value of these ads.
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Yeah it’s seeming like that unfortunately… I work as a software engineer and adding a toggle to turn off a feature is really not something that takes months to roll out.
I think there’s only 3 possibilities left here:
- plex’s engineering department is wildly incompetent
- plex has no real intention of adding a toggle and the previous posts were lies
- plex entered into a contract which is preventing them from adding a toggle
Anyway you cut it, it’s a crappy situation for the users.
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There’s a fourth possibility: you don’t know what you’re talking about.
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I would love to be proven wrong!
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Hello White Knight. A Plex employee confirmed the new functionality was rolled out several versions before its deployment and it was hidden with a configuration parameter. So on deployment they just activated it. If all functionality was rolled out in that way then why is it so difficult to create a configuration parameter to deactivate it?
They came up with some weird explanation that didn’t really make much sense. Assuming that’s actually true, it is extremely dumb and unprofessional to deploy new functionality without a way to roll it back. What would happened if this functionality screwed up everything? Plex dies because there is no way back?
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