I counted 'em.
You can take my word for it, or you can count 'em yourself.
On your Roku App.
At one time I had a bunch of libraries, I donāt recall if āanimatedā was one, but likely. I thought trimming it down to two libraries made sense, and up until the multiple rows of Recently Added (trying to stay on topic here) it worked very well. I canāt get my Android TV device down to one row, Plex web and the Roku are back to my version of normal after a bit of customization, and I havenāt looked at my phone to see what it looks like.
Understood. Genre is not perfect sure nothing in life is 
Iāve found its a matter of zeroing in on what you can live with and what you canāt. I couldnāt deal with cast scoped per library so I had to change. Not ideal but what choice did I have !
Its clear (at least to me) that multi libraries is not the way plex are going from a design perspective. Some of what is in the first post on this thread sounds good, guess we will just need to see in time.
Actually, we got an update and from home to Westerns is now 40. Just counted.
Iām guessing that @JuiceWSA is counting going from each genre category starting at Action and finishing at Western as a click.
I could hold down for the 6 seconds required, or switch to the ff key and get there quicker, but by that time Iāve clicked 40 times.
Regardless, my poeple have run from the building with their hair on fire long before pay dirt.
Itās 8 clicks from home to the Genre selector., if Iāve got Movies right under Shows in the sidebar.
Itās not gonna happen.
The reason libraries work for me is; I can automate it. Sonarr / Radarr can put media in selected libraries but not in collections. So, using collections involves another manual step.
the number of clicks to genre from home?
- home
- up - profiles
- right - search
- click search
- type 1 or 2 letters ā note of course # clicks to get the letters on keyboard will vary
or assuming a roku voice remote works the same as android, (I donāt have one for roku)
- press voice search button
- speak genre
Doesnāt matter really. Both contestants are exaggerating a bit to make a point. One likes using genres, one doesnāt. Iām in the doesnāt camp.
The point is, it shouldnāt be forced on us by falsely manipulating the program to make using libraries more difficult.
Multiple Recently Added rows is supposed to make sense in the future. I was looking forward to saying, āah, I see, that makes senseā but as I see other changes Iām not so optimistic.
Not being able to sort our libraries has not been associated with future improvements yet. Not sure what benefits Plex sees in that.
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So can you give us an update on fixing this glitch? Itās hard not to question whether Plex is focused on fixing this when itās been going on for weeks now.
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LIke hell I am.
The defenders of Genre Filtering donāt have a Roku.
Itās 8 clicks to Genre and from there I could hold the down button for a 6 SECOND RIDE to Westerns (to count as one click for some), or I can click 30+ times faster.
Thatās a fact, Jack.
Not wanting to throw fuel on the fire but I use roku and use filters by genre all the time ā¦
I have both Roku and Android TV clients. The difference is 1-3 clicks if you start from the same place.
You are starting from the Roku main menu, pluxology is starting from within the movie library. Thatās all I meant by exaggerating. You arenāt comparing apples to apples.
As I said, it doesnāt matter. 5 clicks or 40, either are too many just get results that arenāt that great.
You have to hate Collections pretty bad to click 40 times to Westerns, or let that down button crawl you to your destination.
The people I share my library with use filtering 0% of the time, but they use my Genre Collections 100% of the time, so that tells me ALL I need to know.
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I have my libraries shared with several other users. I donāt want 800 TV shows in one library no matter how easy it is to filter them. Most casual users SCROLL libraries to find something to watch. Scrolling up and down through 800 shows is a strain on the server.
What was wrong with the old Home Page? All I needed was whatās On Deck, Recently Added TV, and Recently Added Movies. It was clean, and should at least be an OPTION without consolidating 800 TV shows into one library (and losing my customization in the process).
And worse, itās just repeating the same row six times with no timely fix in sight. It wasnāt broke. It didnāt need more cosmetic changes just for changes sake. There are more beneficial things that could be focused on, but no one bothers to ask us whatās important to us.
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I started using collections. Went from 7 Movies libraries to 4.
I have collections for stuff like Star Trek, Star Wars and any movies with 3 or more parts. Also set up a couple of Playlists.
Iāve never asked how others use my libraries. Iāll have to send out a survey. 
I went from 30 to 1.
I told my friends where the filtering was and I told them to view the Library (instead of Recommended) if they wanted to use the 175 Genre/Other Collections I have set up.
It was a unanimous decision on everyoneās part that Collections were indeed, the way to go. I didnāt need further polling data to find out which way was more popular/useful.
Hereās another absolute truth:
You share with a half dozen or so people as old as your Grandmother - with about the same technical prowess - they will NOT be using Genre Filtering and that too, Jack - is a factā¦lol
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I agree, a few of my users are not technically minded at all, including my wife who is few years younger than my Grandmother. Age has nothing to do with that ability.
Thatās why I originally had clearly labeled Libraries. I suspect most are still at the Recommended screen.
I only have a handful of users. They either watch a few favorite TV shows or the latest movie releases. I have had to explain how to search when I get requests for items that are already in the libraries.
This is getting way off track but is info Plex should be gathering if they want to give us changes that will improve the product for us.
We have engineers still looking into this, but I donāt have any extra information at this time.
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So?
Do both groups get paid?
Resources are resources, and I assume Plex does not have an unlimited resources. The resources used for the arcade group should have been used to fix many the glaring issues.
Plex is really great at adding new features few ask for, you just never get all their bugs worked out before adding yet more features
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