I have honestly never had this big of a problem with a change in 8+ years. Huge step backwards. I’m up over 40 categories now after being a Plex user since 2012. The lag on my Plex home screen on both my and other people’s web browsers is crazy for having to load up all these…and the family/friends on the android/apple clients are confused and frustrated trying to browse. This is not somethings that “making more collections” will fix if that’s the only suggestion…I have stuff like youtube clips auto-downloading to their respective directories and auto-matching without the need to go in an individually edit each file. I know I’m probably just yelling at clouds here but please at least give us the option to switch back to normal on the server side.
I mean, this is maddening…does anyone know the last builds (both client and server side) before this insanity? I will happily downgrade and keep it there until this gets a fix
I upgraded the Android TV app to the latest version last night. I was planning on watching a single episode I had added to one of my two TV libraries. It didn’t show up on the Home page of the app in either the On Deck or Recently Added hub. I searched the libraries, and it was in the proper TV library.
I’m pretty sure I had finally got the Android app to only show one Recently Added row previously, but apparently the upgrade didn’t keep all of the customization. Reset the customization, which returned me to the multiple Recently Added Hubs, But now I can’t get back to just one combined row. Half an hour later, I gave up, and once again cursed the “Genius” who came up with this ridiculous idea that using Plex had to be an endeavor of frustration.
Plex is determined we are going to have this mess from now on, but at least get the apps and server to work consistently with this concept. I shouldn’t have to spend time configuring apps (as well as guiding and re-guiding my users) to show me the simple Plex home page that worked perfectly.
You rolled back the combined On Deck and Continue Watching right away. Roll back the multiple Recently Added at least until you have some of the “new functions” you claim will make it better.
So from December until February still no fixes for the chaos on smart tvs of the home being unmanageable. Plex devs gonna plex but I guess.
I don’t think Plex considers it broken.
The attitude seems to be that we aren’t using Plex correctly. 
That’s the message I got - but it is taking a bit longer to sink in for some…
For me it sank in about a year ago when I finally decided waiting for Plex to work across multiple libraries wasn’t going anywhere and isn’t how Plex is designed and, frankly had a poor chance of ever being a real thing… I consolidated 30 libraries down to ‘One Each’ for Movies and Shows - knowing it’s very likely Plex will never make that jump… but at least it’s just one jump they fail miserably at… not 30.
Then the fun started. I didn’t have each Movie in a Folder and scan times were increased to the point that there was a real danger of my never actually completing one in what’s left of my lifetime.
Well, a week or so later, Filebot and I had over 5000 Movies in unique folders and a complete scan is over in a few seconds - not days. At least that’s over - for me. For others who haven’t yet learned how to use Plex (lol) - that laugh-fest hasn’t even begun yet…
Plex is out to break hearts and shatter expectations - that part they’re good at. Learning how users are using their product and working with them - that part they’re not good at.
I have been using Plex for 8-10 years and decided, last November, that I would buy a Lifetime PlexPass. I bought it to support Plex. It has absolutely no value to me. I feel like it was a poor investment. 
I have combined 7 movie libraries down to 4. This has made using Plex more inconvenient to myself, friends and family but it’s how Plex claims I am supposed to use it. Funny, in November I could use Plex the way I wanted to. It makes me wonder what brainstorms are coming.
Here’s the smart play:
Pay a month at a time - that way you have something to yank in a rage when they don’t do what you want:
(rotflol)
Great advice two months too late.
Point taken about the Recently Added line for each library (as horrible as that is for some of us). We know they don’t listen to their most loyal and customized users, but prefer to cater to the casual user (which is dumb, because the things that make us happy will ultimately benefit everyone).
But what about the glitch that makes each line repeating the same information that I provided a screenshot on January 6th?
Why has there not been a fix for that? Plex did not intend for that to happen, and they still haven’t addressed it. In fact, they’ve pretty much gone silent when they couldn’t replicate the problem, in spite of many SmartTV users saying they were having the same issue.
To be perfectly clear, the engineers working on Plex Arcade are different engineers to the ones working on this. Just because two things are happening at the same time doesn’t mean we’re compromising on each one
Arcade may not be the reason but the current Plex problems don’t seem to be getting the attention they need for some reason. All we can do is guess.
It’s perception. We’ve had a problem with the Plex UX for a few weeks. Plex releases an Arcade. Tada! 
SQUIRELL!!!
Which reminds me, I haven’t yet got around to putting “Up!” and my other 900 Family movies into a collection, and adding them to my general movies library. Of course, a collection of 900 movies isn’t exactly how we’re supposed to use collections. Oh wait… I can spend the rest of my life sorting them into Pixar, Disney, Dreamworks, etc. collections. The whole idea of controlling what me and my users see on the home screen and other pages just seems like a whole lot of work for me, that I don’t think I’m prepared to do.
I do understand its a bit of a mind shift moving from a multi movie library to a single one. Few years ago I had many libraries until I realised that cast member searches are not shared so I consolidated to 1 library and after a bit of time to get use to it I now much rather have it that way and would not move back.
When trying to find stuff we filter on genre ? Collections are not flexible enough for us so we don’t use them. We actually hate collections, genre is our friend.
Anyhow, we have 1 movie library with close to 2600 movies and genre filters work perfectly when we want to find something like animation, documentary etc…
Plex have made it clear they won’t change this decision so genre might be an option to consider until they add extra customisation controls some time in the future.
A Movies (Animated) library is much easier. 
Must be a Canadian thing. I can’t spell SQUIRREL without looking it up.
I’m not a big fan of collections. Generally, I prefer the recommendations that Plex makes in the “related” section.
Filtering by genre “Fantasy” brings up 330 movies in my family movie section, and about 200 in my regular movie section. A combined library obviously would have over 500 movies on that filter. Those are all Plex generated genres, I’ve never changed anything manually.
Amazingly, my Family movie library has only one movie with the genre of “Animation,” while my regular library has about 50.
I’m not sure the people I share with have ever tried using a filter, or would even know where to look for it. With the genres I see now, it would appear a little lacking or overwhelming, depending on the choice. Or again, a lot of work by me to make it make sense.
OOPS! 
But us Canucks do have “Colour” TVs, and most of my “neighbours” agree that winter is not our “favourite” season!
Yea, there’s no way in the world my people are going to hammer through 30 clicks in some device app - the Roku App is the one they have - to filter for a Genre in a Movie library 6.5K strong… even if they knew how.
Any shortcomings of abusing Collections are far better than the method Plex has provided.
Those that suggest Filtering for Genre in the manner provided is the way to go - aren’t hammering through 30 clicks on their Rokus to do it - that’s all I can figure.
It’s 31 to Westerns - if you sit in the blocks, poised ready for the starting pistol.
