My suggestion is for a more public roadmap of planned features/planned things to not be implemented.
Reason for this suggestion is there would be more of a one stop shop place to go to know what path Plex is ultimately taking as well as a list of things that are planned to not be supported.
This would also help to focus discussions in this forum into a more useful discussion. Now instead of broad catagories flying around shotgun blast style. Discussions could be focused on what it would take to add iso (or iso like support) and discussions could also focus into "what features would be important to you for cloud support?"
The format of this list could be timeline free and listed into three or maybe four broad catagories. Planned, Considered, Planned for non support, Planned for never being supported.
Planned would be things that plex team would highly consider/in the process of adding support for, example would be parental controls. Considered would be things that seem interesting, but maybe aren't practical to implement or have dubious benefit, such as improving the metadata scrapper or increased granularity in transcoding options. planned for nonsupport would be things that in future releases would likely be removed or no longer officially supported, examples would be iso files or (as a really old example) playing files directly from rar files. Planned for no support would be things that are relatively set in stone to never be supported unless something major changes, examples would be transcoding support for ARM, local authentication.
It could even be an unofficial list maintained by a ninja with the notice that this is unofficial and things can change at any time.
This would make discussions for first category follow more a long the lines of what features you would want it to have. Second would be perhaps justifications on why that is more practical or why it should be given more priority. Third would be discussions about why it is being removed/ ways it could be averted. Fourth would be discussions on why this is the way it is due to technical reasons or the vision on what plex should be.
Discussions would ultimately stay more 'on topic' as a result.
Hey PinkyThePiggy! I'm really sorry, but we can't make our roadmap public. There are lots of strategic things, for example, that it wouldn't make good business sense to expose to the world. Also, we don't like to say we're doing something, because then all we hear is "When?! When?! When!?"
You'll just have to think of our roadmap as lots of presents under the Christmas tree :)
(That all being said, I'm happy to comment on things like ISO support and put that on a list of things we're not planning to do...)
Hey PinkyThePiggy! I'm really sorry, but we can't make our roadmap public. There are lots of strategic things, for example, that it wouldn't make good business sense to expose to the world. Also, we don't like to say we're doing something, because then all we hear is "When?! When?! When!?"
You'll just have to think of our roadmap as lots of presents under the Christmas tree :)
(That all being said, I'm happy to comment on things like ISO support and put that on a list of things we're not planning to do...)
Bummer...
But with that last line I think that may help this forum out a lot. Instead of seeing a ton of posts about iso, arm version X, X cloud provider with no API, video ts, hacky work arounds for a single client (such as live TV for PHT only types of posts) etc. we could simply refer to your thread instead of having to reexplain it over and over.
EDIT: Thanks for the response though! Much appreciated.
Hey PinkyThePiggy! I'm really sorry, but we can't make our roadmap public. There are lots of strategic things, for example, that it wouldn't make good business sense to expose to the world.
Does Plex even have competitors? I thought you guys rocked so much that the competition instantly died of shame...
Also, we don't like to say we're doing something, because then all we hear is "When?! When?! When!?"
We still do that, even without any lists available. Heck, we even do that for stff when it is listed on your "Will never happen in my lifetime"-list......
Does Plex even have competitors? I thought you guys rocked so much that the competition instantly died of shame...
We still do that, even without any lists available. Heck, we even do that for stff when it is listed on your "Will never happen in my lifetime"-list......
:)
Jaap
Plex does have competitors... But the majority of them are pretty awful (in regards to the home streaming market). Their competitors tend to be nearly purely apple ecosystem apps with a random smattering supporting windows/android (barely).
Their really only major competitor (in regards to major market share for home theater ecosystems) is XBMC. But outside of the DIY home media solutions there is a cloud provider offering plexish setups (their name escapes me) as well as the obvious netflix/amazon/hulu for streamable media as a whole.
Most people don't want the hassle of running a home server and would prefer someone do it for them and the 30 bucks it costs a month to be subscribed to netflix/hulu/amazon at the same time is enough for them. Maybe people will realize the benefits someday, but their loss until then. :)
Does Plex even have competitors? I thought you guys rocked so much that the competition instantly died of shame...
Media Browser 3 (really coming together bit by bit and is starting to be a REAL competition to Plex IMO)
Not quite there yet but they're not "dying of shame" ;) (far from it actually; iOS, Roku, Android, Win8, etc...)
I'm just really objective here (not going to pick a team, I will take the best for my needs which is still Plex. but MB3 is growing fast and is sharing more publicly their roadmap...)
***I agree about the road map not been public BTW... (but also understand the users point of view, it can be frustrating...)
I can understand not wanting a public roadmap. But at least hinting that some things are being worked on would ease the chatter.
If Plex doesnt announce playlists soon, I think this will allow a massive space for competitors.
Its such a basic V1 feature, I cant understand why its not in it, or slated to be in it.
I have great success getting friends to switch to Plex, until they ask me about playlists. I tell them there are none.
They look at me blankly and go back to their previous media software.
Where you say playlist, I would say local trailer support and other would say parental control, etc... Everyone has their own #1 feature that they think should be in Plex.
I don’t want you to tell is everything, things do need to remain secret. But what does 2014 hold for Plex? Will it finally get to 1.0 status for the server? Will we see more features added?
My main, absolute number 1 feature I really hope you are applying all your energy and thought wisdom to is PMS unattended auto updating. This would be your greatest gift to mankind.
Thank you elan and plex team, my home is made better because of plex.
