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Is the ‘old’ user interface with the menu up top now gone??
I can’t find a way in settings to go back to it.
Are we stuck with the new sidebar menu?
Hope not because I just prefer the top menu system, takes FAR less real estate on screen and allows for MUCH more content to be listed without scrolling…
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Yes—the Type-First UX/UI design was hated by the majority of users on each platform it was introduced on. The new UNO UI/UX is much more customizable and preferred by the majority of users over the Type-First UI/UX
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Has the ability to sort TV libraries been taken away. Movie libraries still have sort and filter options but TV libraries seem to only sort by title while in TV layout.
After going in and out of TV mode all of a sudden the sort and filter options are visible. This GUI is a bit flaky.
Alright… I understand what is going on now. Sorting and filtering controls are only available in grid view regardless of the library. So if you are in list view and want to change them you have to switch to grid view, modify sorting and filtering and then switch back to list view.
I can only test this with Plex Web at the moment.
You’re right the sort by field is not available in list view. At least in Plex Web that’s because the sorting is triggered and displayed in the column headers.
In grid and summary view the sort by field is displayed next to the filter and display type options.
I’ll need to double check this behavior in Plex Media Player tonight when I’m home.
Terrible, terrible, terrible.
Sat down to watch one episode, agreed to the update, wasted an hour trying to navigate TV mode, can’t find list mode, hate grid mode, stuck. v2.38 should have a new name.
v2.37 link?? Please.
Personally I am quite tired of logging in to programs the have completely changed the User Interface based on some imaginary “majority of consumers” allegedly WANT this. Now, with this new UI, I have to navigate twice as far just to get to the TV or Movies I have on my system. It went from 2-3 button pushes, to now more than 6-7 just to get to my collections. (not the “collections” menu)
I actually cancelled NETFLIX for their new left sided UI being awful.
Since I do not believe in complaining without offering a solution.
I offer this suggestion - fundamentally the functions don’t change, just the lay outs. Therefore, have a few layouts to choose from, maybe 3 or 5. For people to have a choice in their experience and the way that it looks is important to many. I think they used to call them “skins” back in the 90s.
If there were complaints about the old UI, I am sorry. But, some people liked the look of it and the ease of use.
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Is there some sort of actual data to back this up or is it just because “Plex says so” as usual with the crappy changes that get made?
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Apparently you missed the crap storm that was the Roku update last December.
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^^^^This.
Not to mention the Smart TV and various other client users who had to use the previous god awful UI for more than a year whilst being told officially that we were just a small section of users who didn’t like change.
Thank god for the Roku users.
I haven’t owned one for several years but I will be forever grateful to all those who do and finally made Plex come to their senses.
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The Roku was the straw that broke the camel’s back. You are a minority that likes type first across all platforms it was introduced on. Search the forums and you will find the threads by thousands of users that loudly voiced the hate of Type-first.
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@rsava
Here is the major thread about what the Roku users felt.
Roku Update and there were at least 20 other threads.
Feel free to wade through the 2000+ posts in search of anyone with anything positive to say about the previous UI/UX.
It definitely wasn’t a case of Plex using imaginary analytics.
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I always thought the old Roku UI was trash. That was why I did not use Plex on any of mine (I own 5 or 6 of them, BTW).
What about the rest of us that had good devices and were perfectly content with how Plex worked on those? One device dictated how the rest of us had to interact with Plex?
Or does Elan only own a Roku and decided, as usual, to screw up a perfectly good product.
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Yup, I thought so. No actual statistics or research. just a user forum which gets hammered with complaints.
Plex would never actually do any research, would they.
One device dictated what the rest of us have to deal with.
Elan should buy something other than a Roku and see how the civilized world uses the product.
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Actually there was uproar from PMP, Xbox, and Roku users. It was not rolled out to the Roku first.
Wasn’t the Smart TV app the first to be used as Guinea pigs?
I seem to recall switching from Smart TV to PMP… only for that UI to follow me there too.
I was pretty sure that’s what drove me to PKC and then Emby for a while.
And let’s not forget ios, that was another early change to type first (with the associated negative feedback) but sadly we are still currently stuck with that on ios…
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I’m now an IOS user but was on Android mobile at the time and it was the same there.
Oddly on mobile I find type first ok to use.
I mean I would rather not have to… but I can live with it. Unlike on TV based devices.
Anyway the whole concept that the Roku was the first to use that UI is whacked. I’m trying to think of any official platform that didn’t get switched to that old “new” UI before the Roku and all I can come up with is Apple TV.
I did not get on with it, more so on an iPad and jumped through a few hoops (ages ago) to downgrade to the last version before type first
And that’s where I am staying till the old version stops working 
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