Yeah, I know. This forum is all about bitchin’ and moanin’ about how nothing works and nobody listens and the features that everybody wants ain’t there.
Well I’m just gonna say that y’all must be runnin’ a whole different version of the package than I am because what I got is feature-rich, well designed, and solid as a rock. All of my various players work seamlessly. All of my remote streams transcode and play transparently, All of my friends and family are ecstatic over having access to my server.
I don’t know what I’m doing different from the rest of you but it’s working. There have been little annoyances here and there but I haven’t had a server crash or serious issue pop up in many, many months. I spend a lot more time messing with issues on my workstation than I do on my PLEX server.
Could there be more features I’d like to see added? Sure. Are there a few bugs here and there that need to be fixed? Absolutely. But any package of this complexity is going to have those issues. I’ve been waiting for Microsoft to make NTFS case sensitive and fix the Windows SMB stack for close to thirty years and I don’t expect to see much movement on those two bucket items either. Please send me a memo when Gnome figures out how to easily preserve window size and position across sessions.
This is HARD stuff to develop, folks. There are literally millions of possible combinations of media types, codecs, and players that have to be accounted for and it all has to run on a couple dozen different operating systems in the hands of (often grossly) inexperienced people. If you think that’s easy then learn to code and find out for yourself.
I just think there needs to be a better appreciation of the devs around here. For the price they ask of a PlexPass we’re getting some amazing functionality and value. How much do you think you’d be paying if Adobe was developing this stuff?
Yes, it could be better but so can everything else. PLEX is pretty damned good as it is and gaining ground every day. People should stop and think about that before teeing off on the devs. They deserve better than how we treat them on this forum.
So thank you to everyone at PLEX for putting this package out there. It has truly changed the way my family and I interact and made our lives much, much closer and better. Setting up my server was the best time and money I ever spent.
Just sayin’. Cheers.
P.S. - No, am I not in any way affiliated with PLEX or any of their owners or employees. I’m just a guy who likes to see proper credit given when due.
