Everything still takes more clicks that previous versions or Plex Retro. Things are cumbersome to find, the screen is always cluttered, you’ve made jumping to a letter in your list crazy! etc.
You took a simple to use, clean design and threw it out in favor of what you say is a “modern” design. People need to realize that “modern” does NOT always mean better.
Please just let those of us who want to use Plex Retro do so instead of forcing us to use your new “modern” garbage.
The Retro app was written on a platform that Roku is discontinuing, so the Retro app would have quit working soon anyway.
What functions do you use that take more steps than in Retro? I’ve found that the things I do are about the same, and in one or two cases, one click shorter.
Here’s one that’s glaring. If something has a long title, having to click through to see the full title rather than previously just having to select it and it’s displayed on a bar at bottom left. Yes, I know about the scroll…but it’s slow, and on some Roku models, the scroll doesn’t work.
If you use the A-Z letters to jump to that part of a section, in the Retro you would click down 3 times to get to the letters and then scroll the side to get to the letter you wish. In the new one, you have to click right 6 times to get to the letters and then down to your letter. Doubling the number of clicks to get to those letters. I’d be glad to help out your UI guys with stuff like this but ever since the first version of the modern app has come out they seem to be more focused on making it more like the web interface, but they don’t seem to realize it is NOT a web interface. I would be happy to list more but the retro app was disabled so that normal users can’t point out how crappy the design is with these concrete examples.
I will also say that when items are added to the library I have to restart the Plex app for it to pick up the changes, but in the retro app they would be picked up automatically.
I’ve commented this same exact issue somewhere around here. I’m not sure any developer of note has seen it. I and several others with vision impairments complained of the fonts not being easy to read, being smaller, and scrolling not helping as we still have to strain (and wait) to see it.
Browsing for content when you don’t exactly know what to search for is now more challenging for me.
(Though I understand Retro will soon be dead code-capability wise - I keep hoping UNO/Roku will be improved)
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