True. The server owner always decided what was shown on the Home screen. Now it’s more granular.
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Thanks for all the feedback, guys. Now to see about getting functional subtitles! Cheers.
I feel that I have less control now:
- no influence on the sort order (sorting follows the navigation tree now…), no way to show different order of important things on the home screen (on the navigation tree it is just sorted alphabetically) => I would like to ask for different sorting possibilities of tree & home screen
- for each library a new section is generated on the home screen (I have multiple music folders - with the manual homescreen, they have been just shown as one, now I have multiple) => Possibilty to decide if I want to see sections by library or library type
- No way to disable “Live TV” on the homescreen if I just want to have it pinned for quick access
You can already reorder items in the sidebar so that it’s not alphabetical (that has always been possible), and the ability to combine recently added hubs will be returning. Live TV & DVR will be getting additional controls like the libraries, but just not quite yet, I’m afraid.
You can reorder pinned items. The unpinned items can’t be reordered. Not sure there would be a reason to since they don’t show in the Home rows.
True, a good clarification. I just omitted that since unpinned items don’t contribute to the home screen.
sorry, seems that I was a bit unclear - I can reorder items in the sidebar, but this will automatically reorder sections on the homescreen. I dont want to have that. It should be kept controlled separately.
In my case, I want to have sidebar ordered alphabetically and utilize homescreen’s sort order to display content based of my personal interest.
Unfortunately, that’s not something that is currently possible in the automatic home screen
as said, less control with the “new” functionality compared to the current one - Improvements are quite well seen but they should not restrict. Another function which is removed and makes Plex a bit more unattractive 
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Could you please clarify, are there any future plans to allow users unpin some hubs (sections, not libraries) forced on them by the server settings for Home/library Recommended pages? Same for the library hubs they like - they just won’t be able to pin things to Home like “Top Action Movies” anymore?
While most of my users will be fine on auto, I’m not sure there is a way to set it up on my server so that every user will like it that way. It just doesn’t make sense to not allow users to pick sections they like, cause many of the hubs are very taste-specific (genre is just one example). Also, often there might be cases when one wants quick access to the library, but doesn’t need its content in Home - then it’ll be forced on him anyway once he pins it.
If all of those things will be gone, it sounds really limited and controversial once the change happens for everyone.
Once manually managed home goes away, clients will have the capability to pin and unpin libraries, and reorder them in the sidebar, but nothing more. Which hubs appear from the pinned libraries will be controlled from the server from that point on.
Ok, I believe those dark clouds are coming back 
I know my users won’t mind that but I foresee complaints in your future.
Let’s say I don’t want ‘Continue watching’ to be my first row on the Plex home screen, and want recently added TV shows instead. Is that still going to be an option or do I not really know what I like, and Plex will be deciding for me?
Continue Watching will always be at the top, that’s the only non-configurable hub from a library.
The first row is the most important row, what we see first. Why take away the user’s ability to decide what we see first when opening Plex?
Sure there is no forced sponsored content up there yet, but isnt this just the first step towards that?
Plex keeps making choices to remove features (plugins, manual connections, manual home screen layout) that are popular with users, and adding sponsored content (live TV channels, movies + TV shows, video games) that very few (nobody?) are asking for. Plex’s implementations of these new ‘features’ are all mediocre, and don’t compete with what’s already out there. Just more and more bloatware.
Plex is a great home media server, focus on that! Add audio format labels for newer formats. Plex should be able to identify and label ATMOS sources. Improve/fix the Alexa skill, it’s practically broken at this point. Maybe add a sync feature for audio and subtitles. It’s better to be a company that does one thing great, than a company that does a lot of things half-ass.
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I found one of my library’s had continue watching at the bottom. That was because I manually moved the three selected items to the top of the list sort order, and it forced continue watching to be displayed at the bottom so by playing around with the order of your selected items to show on that library’s home screen you can then affect the position of continue watching it appears in that library’s page.
See post 813
Umm, so I’ve just had this new home screen thing foisted on me and immediately got the well-known issue with separate “recently added” sections for each library.
However…
The “Merge Recently Added Items” option which was obviously intended to remedy this problem isn’t working correctly. When I enable it, I see a single “recently added” for all my TV libraries but nothing at all for my movie libraries.
Any ideas?
How do you have your movie libraries set up in the Manage Recommendations section for their recently added hubs? Are the libraries pinned in the sidebar? Also worth a restart of your server and refreshing the home page 
I really like having the option Dave. Happy to see more user control.
