Manually managed is being deprecated and removed from April 22nd, which is why you don’t see the new hub there. You’re best to stay on Automatically Managed Home.
I feel bad for you Dave. You’ve had to run around here and keep telling people these problems and “bugs” are actually design changes done on purpose.
When you tell people the manually managed home screen is being removed and they need to switch to Automatically managed I think it triggers people.
It gives people the impression they are losing control of the things they like and have gotten used to and Plex alone will decide everything for them.
If I understand the situation correctly the controls for your home screen on your andriod device for instance, will be done from the server side.
If that’s a somewhat accurate statement I think your explanation should reflect that so people don’t immediately freak out
Also, can you give us a heads up on the status of the continue watching limit?
MY on deck had over 100 shows in it and when I switched it was between 6 and 10
I understand plans to increase that were in the works. but when and by how much I haven’t heard.
Thanks
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Thank you for your reply. Is there hope for anything like this when it is all released? Managing it all from the server side means I need to know what all of the levers and dials do to what area of my system.
This, absolutely.
Here’s the problem: Plex (the software, or the people) have zero idea what I want to see. JaysPlex7 wants to see something different than I do, surely. Manually managing let me have a tailored suite that suited me, perfectly. That’s one of the reasons I signed on and gave Plex money in exchange for a product.
Plex (the company) is effectively taking that away from everyone complaining here. Not only are we losing the ability to have the interface we want, we lose On Deck, and the CW, from my experience, is broken and not working.
Plex just took so many steps backwards you should fork your code and change your name. Not kidding. This is rapidly becoming garbage I would never, ever pay for.
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@JaysPlex @Stu_Dubois, I thought most people would have already known about Manually Managed Home being deprecated, since we have had an info modal pop up for it for the last few weeks on all clients, but in any case, control is indeed moving to the server side, giving users control over what they see on the Recommended Screen, their Home Screen, and the Home Screen of users they share with (Manage Recommendations | Plex Support). The Continue Watching limit had been temporarily set to 20 on the server side, but we did encounter an issue where in some cases, the returned items were being limited to 6 items, rather than the full amount. The next version of PMS (it was scheduled to be 1.23, but will now be 1.22.3) will return the control for the number of items to the Number of items to keep in Continue Watching preference, as it was in the past.
It is very unlikely that most people would know about it, info popups or not. I know none of the people using my server would have read that. If they did, they would have no idea what it meant as they don’t use Manual Home, so I guess the point is moot.
Most Plex users have no idea this forum exists or what Plex really is.
I have 10 active users and myself. So, on my server, 1 out of 11 know what is going on with Plex. That 1 (me) is often confused about what changes to expect. 
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@DaveBinM I haven’t seen the message on any clients except for the web client. To the best of my knowledge, none of my users ever use the webclient. My Android phone and Fire Stick are running older versions of the client, so I can understand that might be a reason… but I have not seen it on the Roku, either.
Is the message based on the server version? I’m still running 1.19.4.2935…is that why none of my clients of seen the warning?
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The message is based on the client version, so if you’re running older versions of apps, you won’t have seen it.
100% in agreement. I recently helped my son set up a new Roku for his kids, and he just skipped by the customization screen in Plex. “Whatever it shows us, is good enough.” I’m pretty sure the other seven people I share with have the same attitude, because I’ve not received a single text message or phone call. The only thing I was ever asked is “Why are there so many Recently Added Rows and can I make it just two like before?”
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Okay, that makes sense.
Will we be able to customize the hubs shown per user like we do with libraries, or is it an all or nothing deal?
It won’t be per user, it will just be as described in the support article I linked to previously
Will Weeks to consider for Continue Watching and Include season premieres in On Deck also work correctly?
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Yes, they will both work.
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@DaveBinM , thanks for your response
I learned about the home screen going away on my client when it was gone
I don’t remember seeing any pop up specifically addressing the manually managed home screen going away
I normally never updated my client player and when I did by mistake I had 9 recently added rows instead of one unified row. (which I don’t like)
Then when I updated hoping it would fix that my On Deck and Continue watching was gone when i switched it back to manually managed
I thought for sure in both cases i must be doing something wrong by pinning sources incorrectly or something
It is possible I’m suffering from some kind of “update PTSD” where my brain subconsciously refuses to process any mention of another update or change that will ruin my life for 2 hours, so IDK
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Exactly. They also don’t change from Recommended to Library view in the libraries. So when they ask about a movie and I tell them it’s already there they can’t find it because all they see is what Plex has recommended. Yes, they should search but…
That’s the type setting I wish I could default from my end, Library view as default.
I don’t understand the push for Recommended. I also don’t like it in Netflix and Prime.
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Well when you guys keep changing things that your users don’t like - they’re going to choose not to update the apps. It’s no wonder that so many users haven’t seen the messages. I share stuff with my elderly (non-technical) parents who live 1000km away and they are totally lost on how to find the shows that they normally watch. I’m stuck trying to video chat with them and explain to them what to do. Thankfully I was able to roll back my server update and get some functionality back.
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I actually don’t care about the home screen - in fact I would like to turn it off entirely but I don’t think that’s an option? What makes zero sense to me is that within Plex we can’t make a library that contains both “TV shows and Movies” - they can’t be combined like that right? So why would Plex go and combine the TV shows and Movies in this new iteration of Continue Watching on the home screen? This along with having no manual control of what goes in there just gives me more reason to never use the home screen.
Personally - If I want to watch TV, I go to my TV library(ies) and see which episode is next ON DECK (and possibly see the episode I didn’t finish watching last night). If I want to watch a movie, I want to go to one of my Movie libraries and pick a movie to watch, or possibly CONTINUE WATCHING that extremely boring Oscar Nominated film that has taken me 3 sittings to finish.
I think If I understand correctly - once the new server update comes out (and fixes the limit of 6 items), It should operate more or less the same way it has within my separate TV and Movie Libraries… Within my TV libraries; I will still be able to see which episode I left off on those series that I started watching 2+ years ago but never got around to finishing. In my Movie Libraries; I will be able to see which movies I started watching but never finish watching? The only difference I’m seeing is that they will both be called Continue Watching? Is that correct? Or am I missing something?
If this is true - then I guess maybe I’m less upset about this then I thought I was? I can chalk this up to a bad release and will wait until the next update ¯_(ツ)_/¯.
I still don’t know if my install is broken, or what. CW shows one half-watched movie, and nothing from TV, on the Home screen. If I go to my TV library, CW shows 6 shows, no partially viewed content, but the next-up for what I was watching. This content is NOT on my Home screen, however. @DaveBinH can you explain what I should be experiencing? Because right now what I have is no useful content on the Home screen.
Thing is, reading what others have written, I am under the impression that CW on their homescreen contains both movies and TV, possibly from more than one server. I am experiencing nothing remotely close to that, but I cannot tell if that is by-design, or if it’s broken. That’s how bad this design change is… indistinguishable from broken.
“Recently Released Episodes” is useless, since it shows the newest from one show, but I might be 4 eps behind. “Recently Added TV” is similar. In either category, I have to play “go fish” to find the next episode, which may not be present there if enough new content has come up to rotate my sequentially next episode off the list.
This absolutely does not work, and is freakin’ USELESS.
For what it’s worth, THIS is exactly why some of us manage our screens manually: What you automatically populate has no operational value.
Plex has become pure garbage. Put it back how it was, because this doesn’t work. I pretty much need a notepad keeping track of show, season, and episode, since you removed On Deck. Thank you SO much for this massive, gigantic step backwards into the freakin’ stone age.
If Plex (company) does something this monumentally stupid do you think I trust you at ALL to make good decisions for managing the content on my home screen? You clearly have no idea what your paying customers want, I don’t want you dictating my home screen.
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Are you using more than one client? Do you hsve the ssme 1 movie only in CW on all clients?
It does feel like we are in a state of constant change with no end date.
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I have three Fire TVs as clients in my household and I never saw such a pop up.
Since my home screens are usually manually managed, do you think, that info policy is up for informing my wife and myself?
I am using PMS server versions 1.22.2.4276 and Plex clients on my three clients are automatically fetched by Amaz*n (at the time of writing: 8.15.0.23855).
What will happen in one week and what should my wife expect by then to appear / disappear?
Sorry, if you answered that before, but I did not follow that closely as you may have already guessed 
