This is absolute ■■■■■. How do we roll-back to a working version?
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Our unhappiness & anger with the now hard-coded limited items with od/cw is growing and growing and growing. I know a fix is coming, I just hope its comes soon as one weekend with this has already started me seriously looking at alternatives!
What makes this worse is that I personally raised this back on Feb 26 when this was rolled out as experimental as well as some other forums so I’m very disappointed its come to this.
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I manually downgraded my server and client to older versions. This is not what I paid for.
Same. Hardly ideal and some items in OD/RW have been lost but at least it’s fit for purpose now.
Maybe the change works for people with smaller libraries. For me though, it’s an awful upgrade. My wife and I have a few dozen shows we watch off and on. We had our On Deck to remember two years.
Just give us back our On Deck for TV Shows with a configuration on how long to remember what is On Deck and the same for Continue Watching for movies with a option on how long to remember those.
It’s not that hard. Stop messing with our content. It’s pissing me and my wife off!
It’s fine if you want to give us more options for configuring our home screen, but don’t take away our options.
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Whoa… that’s a long time.
Just another data point that illustrates how different people watch their media. 
For those that are also suffering, rolling back the server is easy enough:
This will also fix anyone connecting through a web browser but only partly unfucks any applications. They’ve had their own separate idiocy rolled to them so will need either blocking updates or rolling back.
I got the previous build of Plex Windows Client here :
https://plex.en.uptodown.com/windows/versions
It worked for me but I cannot vouch for that site though so use at your own risk. It would be nice if Plex would supply a formal route for people to access unbroken versions until they reverse this.
PS I also have 2 year history on OD.
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It’s because that is not controlled by the server, but by the client. There’s plenty of reasons to not have that universal. Just a simple example, but there are plenty more, in MY setup if I am watching from my Living Room it almost certainly means that I’m watching my sister’s kids. So my sidebar order is different, because on THAT TV I’m not going to be watching TV shows because I’ll more likely put on a movie So the movie libraries have a more predominate seat at that table, with the Toon Libraries closer to the top as well. While in the office I’m more likely to be watching shows in the background while doing stuff so TV Shows are at the top. Then in my room I’m more likely to be watching Anime, so my Anime Libraries are at the top. So I personally wouldn’t want it to be unified. If you use it on 12 device yes you’ll have to setup 12 devices, but you already are setting up the devices, it’s something you expect. & each device-type’s client is a different piece of software, so they are each written differently, so one may be updated slightly different, the only way to avoid that is to get all devices that use the same client.
Again, you have it backwards, The server changes HAVE to come 1st. Then the clients change to work with those changes, it can’t happen the other way around, that’d just cause more problems. In general the changes are initially on the Web app, as that is the base that everything else really comes from
Again this only goes to highlight that clearly the people behind Plex don’t actually use their own product!
Or have any idea what their users want.
For goodness sake, get fixing all the long standing major bugs in the product (the debacle that is the DVR, playback issues if you dare to fast forward or rewind too quickly, freezing issues if you try to skip back 10 seconds in the last few minutes of a programme - or the first minute or so, etc etc etc)
And now this nonsense! OMG, this one REALLY takes the biscuit!
If I can’t, at a glance, check out what programmes I am in mid watch, especially those from, say, a few months ago then Plex has pretty much rendered itself TOTALLY useless…
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Which version do I have to roll back to? Like you I keep OD for years.
You’ve completely misinterpreted everything I said, and despite my first (and probably better) instinct to ignore, I’ll respond.
I’m not a member of the high school debating club, so you’ll note that I’m not disagreeing with any of your statements.
Apps don’t work consistently across devices. The differences between a Roku and an Android and the Web App are obvious from the results you can or can not get when compared to each other. It was shown just a few posts before mine by another member of the forum who provided a work-around to split Continue Watching and On Deck. It only worked on the Android TV. That has nothing to do with the order of the hubs or the pinned libraries, which are of course controlled by the app, and should be for exactly the reasons you described.
The changes must come to the server first. I can’t imagine it working any other way. But, before those changes are applied to everyone and all devices, with the obvious bugs and shortcomings in the results, all apps need to be able to use all of the methods available to customize that the server is capable of providing, Even if the results on all devices are not what we want as individual users, at least make it so we have similar results from device to device.
You do that by ensuring the apps work properly with the changes that are ongoing constantly for the server (not just this area) before you release the feature as part of the server software.
I answered my own question. Downgraded to 1.22.0.4163 and have my On Deck and Continue watching back.
Download Plex Media Server 1.22.0.4163 for Windows free | Uptodown.com
So plex has just released a new beta version of PMS and all it does is bump the embedded Web client.
That update will remove the on deck from the embedded client so beware folks if your using it as a workaround.
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It’s like the Devs don’t even listen to us, at all. Why are they releasing another beta version without fixing this problem. In fact, they are expanding the problem.
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I guess it’s not really surprising, the Plex Devs have not cared about their paying users for years. Terrible.
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Unfortunately this solution doesn’t work on my Smart TV, although it says the app there was last updated on 12/08/20(D/M/Y). When I open Plex on my browser I see the CW and OD options separated, but on TV they are merged.
Normally I just read this forum but I have to voice my opinion on this change to remove “On Deck”. I thought I had miss-configured something on my end when I could not find the TV shows that my wife and I have been watching thru the on-deck list. Now we notice that “CW” is just limited to 6 shows? Why? Call it “on deck” or “continue watching”, I don’t care but why the hard limit to 6?
Updates should be about improving features not taking them away. As a paid customer, I feel let down. I guess from now on I’ll have to think twice before updating my plex server.
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Reverting the PMS version does not resolve the Roku app, it still merges.
So what alternatives exist?
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Switch to manual home management until 4/22. Hit the … on the home location and select manually manage will split it back apart.
I’ve been on Manual.
Still on Manual.
On Deck is not there. This does not work. Maybe include the client you’re experiencing this on, as the Firestick does not have this function. Your one experience is not reflective of something we could all expect to reproduce.
