to add to @MovieWiz 's comments, “properly” means no repetition of the same item in a hub, only show items from one library (no mix and match from other libraries), show the items in Recently Added in the order they were actually, added…
but obviously, “properly” means different things to different people.
Logically if it takes so much time to collect and analyze feedback on a design decision, it would make sense to do more research up-front on a proposed change, before rolling it out into the final release-channel product. That way you can save development time reviewing and undoing Bad Ideas.
We do both. We do upfront research, get feedback, analyse, tweak, get more feedback, then roll things out. But given the large number of people who use Plex, it’s impossible to hear every viewpoint prior to release, or to please everyone. We take our UX very seriously, and aim to find the best solution that works for the vast majority of people
This is actually one of the complaints. 
Huh? Previously, the episodes were above the text, and folks didn’t like that, so we flipped them and put the episodes below the text.
… and created the only part of the Plex experience where you navigate up instead of down.
I guess I missed the complaints about episodes being on top. I actually prefer it that way. It’s also the whole point of that thread… that the new experience is a step backward.
EDIT: I meant to say that I preferred the episode ribbon on bottom.
When the text is between the episodes and the functions - leap frogging the text to do ANYTHING except a Bog Standard Play Button Press - is a MAGNUM PITA.
Now that we have to drill to see audio/video details - it’s an EPIC PITA to have to leap frog text should a playback control be required - and it often is around here.
You don’t mean to stand there with your teeth in your mouth and tell me you don’t spend a WHOLE LOT OF TIME changing watched states to fit Plex’s new vision of The Thousand On Decks/Recently/Continues? Really? Besides micturating through a prostate the size of a VA Ham - it’s mostly what I do around here.
There’s plenty of backwards in Plex’s New Vision of App Town, but that part got better than when first bashed over the head with it.
Let’s not go through this again on this thread, please. Your point has been made well enough on the other thread.
I am (reluctantly) accepting the fact that in order to have a functional home page that will not require some sort of customization by myself and the people I share with (for each and every one of their apps,) I will need to abandon the idea of multiple libraries of the same type.
At the same time, may I suggest that when a significant change such as this is rolled out, that Plex make sure all the developers for the various apps understand what the changes are, and what they need to do, to make it work. Then make sure those modifications are implemented on the apps before the “flag” on the server is removed for the new feature.
The forum has multiple threads regarding the broken home page - I’m sure almost every app has at least one bug reported. I can usually adapt and accept pretty quickly to changes in Plex I don’t personally agree with.
In this case, the “bugs” are overwhelming, and I’m disappointed that the bugs are seldom acknowledged or addressed.
I absolutely hate and despise the new home page. November 2020, plex was PERFECT. I couldn’t have even imagined using anything else. Home page worked exactly what I wanted. 3 rows. 1 Continue watching (kiddos make watching a full episode or movie in a single sitting impossible). 1 On Deck (always had the next episode ready to go across any library was great). 2 Recently added (one for tv libraries and one for movie libraries), since if I ever wanted to watch something new, most likely, it was something that was most recently added to Plex.
Also, with kiddos, splitting entire libraries out for “kid friendly” content and “not kid friendly” makes sharing libraries perfect. I can create my kiddo a user, and only give them access to kid movies that I APPROVE of (can’t trust ratings, the plex scanner screws that up and wants to show R rated content to my kiddos just because it couldn’t find the content rating on the movie databases). So being able to physically separate the files on the filesystem to approve content for the kiddos, was PERFECT, it allowed sharing libraries. For example, I can share TV shows with the grandparents, but they don’t care about anime, so I don’t have to share the anime tv show library with them. But since I watch both tv shows and anime, I get a nice combined view.
After reading Plex’s official viewpoint and response, I basically realize that the plex developers have become like typical wallstreet billionaires, they have completely lost touch with reality and “poor” folks (aka, the users and consumers of plex).
Really, combining recently added and all the other sections and libraries together, should just be a configuration that each user can choose. Want them split per library? great! uncheck this box. Want them combined? great! check this box. Everyone is happy.
Plex isn’t going to change, and my comment here isn’t going to convince them to all the sudden realize they have become detached from reality… and @DaveBinM can’t really do anything about it because he is just a community manager, a secretary for the mentally detached and deranged elite wallstreet programmers of Plex.
I suppose I’m really only typing this to convince myself that Plex is probably over, and I might have to face the music and switch to competitor solutions if I want to get back to a system that just works correctly.
A nice little “Combine Libraries of Similar Types in Home Screen” preference/toggle might go a long way. I’d probably turn that on. Others wouldn’t.
That would be awesome.
I remember. the good ol’ days of November '20. 
That was when Plex had a simple, clean, perfect home page. No need to customize. No need to navigate to other pages to get to what you wanted. No need to go hunting for the remote you threw across the room because repeated failures at customizing just plain p*****d you off!
Plex has lost sight of the simple perfection the previous home page had. I very seldom found any need to navigate any farther than the home page, there by default on all apps.
I would prefer the default was “on” for the toggle. I wouldn’t have to explain to my users the need to do that for a return to sanity.
I’ve always thought, and I’ve told others that Plex was at its best when I started… which has been 4-5 years ago. It was super simple to operate with little to no bells and whistles to work around.
Sure, there have been upgrades and changes that I have liked… but I’d likely trade them all back to roll back into the super simple, non-Uno experience we used to have.
So one recently added for each library is actually a feature? Jebus christ 
I feel like this is Plex’s goal for some unfathomable reason.
I kid you not, I used Plex for free for 8+ years and decided in Nov. 2020 to buy a Lifetime Pass.
It’s like Plex ssid, “Finally, we got Dan’s money. Hold my beer and watch this.”.
#TeamMultipleLibrariesNeverDie
#TeamSeparateRecentlyAddedBurnInHeck
@DaveBinM Can we get a toggle to reactivate old behaviour so we only have 2 recently added rows? That should not be that hard right? The current implementation is really unusable (for me).
I honestly don’t know how likely that is to happen, though I’ve passed the feedback along.
Thanks.
