Yeah. I never really leave things half watched. So at most it was just one item there if I, for some reason, wasn’t able to finish what I was watching. Merging it is a lot better for me.
They have always been merged, you just had to remove the continue watching from your home screen if you didn’t want it.
I go to bed all the time with half an episode half played. Some times I finish it the next day and sometimes I don’t go back to it for weeks. It helps me remember it if it’s a separate. I have a show in there now half watched that’s buried 30 shows deep if it was combined…
Out of sight out of mind. My dad is in his 70’s. I’m pretty sure when the timer goes off for the oven he doesn’t even remember what he put in there half the time.
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No, they haven’t always been merged. Even the title of the thread suggests that. 
There was On Deck for Series you’ve been watching at probably want to continue with the next episode and Continue Watching for shows and movies you’ve started but didn’t finish.
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I do understand how the number of items in the row will be determined. I was looking for how they are sorted. If you leave an item partially watched, does it stay at the beginning of the list or does it get shoved further and further down as other items are watched?
I don’t know how other people with families do it, but the living room TV is normally used by one account regardless of who’s watching. Just like Netflix or Prime. We don’t switch from one profile to another just because somebody else is picking something to watch. From what @JaysPlex says, it sounds like items get shoved off screen rather quickly.
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This is exactly what I’m concerned about in my family TV example. I might not be able to finish my horror show/movie for weeks because of any number of circumstances, including waiting to finish watching it on the huge TV with the surround sound rather than the smaller bedroom TV. Now when I finally get back to it, its buried who knows how far down a list rather than in its own row with only 5 or 6 other items.
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I actually put in a feature request to manage this a bit more for a specific want of mine where I’d like new episodes of “older” series still in OD to trigger bringing that series to the front.
I’ve seen other requests in this thread for other controls now that the list is combined like options to reverse the “last watched” sorting or an option for keeping in progress items at the front.
I think all of those would be good considerations for options so it might just take making additional feature requests to highlight them outside of this thread.
I also saw how some of the other automated rows could be useful for highlighting older stuff that hasn’t been watched in a bit rather than making the OD/CW list hold long term items which would then keep the OD/CW list more “fresh” in a way. I hadn’t considered that before, but with this change I’m checking some of these other newer functions.
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When I say the on deck and continue watching have always been merged I am not saying they were always contained in one row without the ability to separate them.
You could have one row for continue watching and one for on deck. I understand that.
What I’m saying is that if you watched half a show and it went into the continue watching row, it was ALSO in the on deck section at the same time in exactly the same way as it is with the current update changes.
In the example you can see the show “I’ll Be Gone In The Dark s01e01” is in the continue watching AND in the on deck. That’s what I mean when i say they have always been merged
If I disable and remove the continue watching row in my picture that episode is still MERGED, COMBINED, CONTINED WITHIN the on deck row.
You’ll notice the 20/20 episode is in the continue watching and it’s also in the on deck, just 30 shows back and off the visible part of the home screen. I think that’s the problem people like Dalvus and myself don’t like about the current setup in the new update
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Ok, I see what you’re getting at. Duplicated may have been a better word than merged. 
I’m curious, do you legitimately not see why you’re entire user-base is appalled by this change?
As a company that is clearly becoming more and more interested in monetising it’s popularity I would think driving your users to seek an alternative would bother you.
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A little exaggerated. 
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Possibly a little but the number of positive responses anywhere other than this thread appears to be zero and the number on this thread to be one. This makes the number of people that disagree statistically insignificant.
Even accounting for negative-bias on such matters there can be no doubt this change has been all-but-universally rejected by their users.
I did however use the wrong “your” which is embarrassing.
No worries Jernau, I am getting the impression that Dan just enjoys floating around here criticizing a typo or the choice of words someone uses.
He didn’t understand the point I was making yesterday because i used the word merged and he rather I had used the word duplicate
Apparently he didn’t read the other posts I had made during the same conversation where I also used the words incorporated, contained within or the redundancy of having items in both the CW and OD rows.
He told me even the title of the thread should tell me I’m obviously incorrect as he then went on to correct me by saying the same thing I had already said a few posts up lol
A little less talking? A little more reading? Just an idea
Probably just wants to show off how impressive his English skills are
You got 'er perfessor. 
Sorry, I read the words you used not the words you meant. I had no intention of offending you.
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The feedback in the Universal Continue Watching experimental feature thread was fairly positive; the main complaints were with regard to client-specific problems (Android) and limits on the number of items it presented. And there have been plenty of comments in other threads in support of these features.
I’m genuinely curious how you arrived at these conclusions. Or if it’s hyperbole. Certainly in this thread there’ve been very vocal users expressing their dislike for these interface changes; however, that’s what many folks do on these (support) forums. A relatively small group of users spend their time here attempting to help others; a much larger group of users come here because they’re experiencing issues or are unhappy about something.
And when that second group finds a thread with like-minded folks discussing the thing with which they’re unhappy, that thread becomes an echo chamber; and it can be hard to believe that there are a significant number of people who don’t feel the same.
So, I’ll go ahead and add my voice in favor the new UI direction to this thread. I like the combined Continue Watching and On Deck; I like the split Recently Added rows (now my DVR TV library doesn’t push my TV library’s content off to oblivion); and I very, very much like that I can now configure which hubs appear on my clients via server-side settings. There have been teething pains to be sure, but as the clients’ and server’s implementations of these features have matured, the experience has gotten much better, in my opinion.
My assumption is that there are many others who feel the same. What incentive does Plex, Inc. have to alienate the majority of its users? They know how many users enabled the experimental feature (it’s an account-level setting) and they know how many left it that way. I have to believe that if a majority of people enabled it and subsequently disabled it, the folks deciding whether or not to move forward with this would have gone the other way.
Anyway, they’re working with real data and not assumptions. Speaking of assumptions, here are some of mine:
- Most Plex users have a relatively small number of libraries (fewer than ten, I’d guess); and
- Most Plex users have only a modest amount of content in those libraries (on the order of hundreds of movies and tens of TV shows); and
- Most users are juggling small number of shows at a time (2 - 4); and
- Most users consume whole movies and episodes at a time;
The above certainly describes me. That’s probably why these changes feel so comfortable to me. Taken together, they allow me to more easily find what I want to watch next.
At any rate, and to be clear, I don’t mean any of the above to be antagonistic; however, this thread has become very one-sided. But there is another side.
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For the most part I agree with you. I do like the direction Plex is going with the UI. Most of the problems I’ve had are with the seemingly lack of testing before release. So many problems and inconsistency with clients.
They’ll get it sorted out eventually.
To be fair, that works both ways. There are plenty of threads where “Rah Rah Plex Rules You’re Stupid If You Don’t Like This Change” is the echo chamber. 
I don’t begrudge anybody their opinion. The entire allure of Plex has been the ability to consume your own media on your own terms. You like some of the changes because it makes something more convenient for you. I dislike some of the changes because it makes something more inconvenient for me. To each their own… many different people, many different preferences.
As you said, they separated out DVR recordings from Recently Added TV. Why not just make it an option to combine or separate items? To use your question, what incentive does Plex have to alienate any of its users when its so simple from a programming standpoint to simply give the option in the server settings?
I’ll admit… When they reduce the ability to customize my experience while at the same time they claim that they are making it better, I’m going to be irritated. It’s akin to Microsoft (hypothetically) removing the ability to change the desktop color because not enough people used that feature.
It’ll be interesting to see what the forums look like on the 22 nd, that’s for sure.
This gets really annoying after doing it for years and years.
I was waiting until all is stable, so my server is old for now: 1.21.1.3876. I mostly use iOS latest beta, and had all my titles appear in the new CW with no issues. But one of my friends reported to only have 6 on CW on the Home page now (on app.plex.tv), but 24 (which probably just means all of them) on a tv library’s CW (sounds same as described in On Deck, Continue Watching & Recently Added - #781 by vanbastercris_protonmail_com). So there’s definitely something about number 6. Could you please tell me, is it the same issue that will be fixed in 1.23 update?
I also really hope those updates won’t break an old Android TV client functions since one of the users are my friend’s parents and being far away we have no way to help them update the client (and most importantly, downgrade it back if needed, and in my experience, the Android TV client sadly was the most picky and troublesome in the past). Could you please tell me, how older version clients are supposed to act after the server update? Will there be backwards compatibility supported? Or will there still be changes/possible bugs for them after April 22 even if I won’t update the server?
I also feel like there really should be a switch option for the user for the separate/combined CW. I’m fine with combined and my friend even dislikes the separate CW to the point of avoiding it’s appearance by watching everything through. But for other folks “in-progress” means much more priority over usual next episodes from OD, and the separate is probably a must for them, since in-progress items will always be pushed back further in the new row if there’s no way offered to separate or sort them.
I too upgraded my andriod tv client and only had between 6 and 10 shows in the continue watching row.
I had over 100 shows in my on deck before that so I downgraded back to an earlier version. (which I don’t think will be an option after 4-22)
The “update” as they refer to it also killed my photo album. The recently added photos row was there but none of the pictures were displayed at all. Just a row of grey boxes
I’m pretty sure I read on another thread about the new continue watching respecting the limit that is set in your server with the 1.23 update.
But I have to wonder how such a major bug is rolled out when this was supposedly beta tested with enough people who liked it enough to suggest they change the entire home scree set up.
How many people actually tested these new features and what kind of direct feedback did they actually get from these people?
No one noticed these major bugs with one of the core features? hmmmmm
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That’s my question. How is this stuff getting through beta testing?
