I don’t see how the Star System is equal to Host Recommendations. That’s not making any sense.
When Halloween come out, I’d like to select a bunch of Host recommended movies for October. When Christmas comes out, I’d like to Suggest a bunch of unique Christmas films.
The Star system is just a Show popularity meter. It doesn’t mean anything else, and might as well just be the same thing that comes from IMDB or Rotten Tomatoes. So I still don’t think you understand the reason. If you’re thinking that the host wants to control a viewers taste in watching movies, you’re missing the point of Host Recommendations. When I go to Barnes and Noble to look at books and the "Staff Picks are at the front of the store, they’re not doing it based on “My” taste or necessarily the Best Seller List. They’re Books the Staff had recently read and liked, and placed them as a curiosity point. Nobody HAS to buy or read the books. They’re not always, but frequently are, themed for the month or week. IE: Easter, Halloween, Finance.
Every time I Google search what I’m trying to accomplish in Plex, I always end up reading a thread where a moderator or member defends Plex for not being able to support it. Then, it’s quickly followed by a reply from a frustrated user explaining what should be so painfully obvious.
Why doesn’t Plex seem to get it? Just help us make our libraries look like Amazon or Netflix. That’s it. All these complicated explanations for feature requests are just users trying to make their own libraries look and function just like what they are familiar with. Rarely are we asking to break ground on things never done before.
Example,
My family is very aware of my Plex movie library and the ~1000 moves in it. However I always find them watching movies in Netflix & Amazon that I ALREADY HAVE IN MY PLEX. Why is this? It’s because Amazon and Netflix are simply easy to use. The suggestive lists and Recommendations is what helps them navigate the A.D.D. world of a thousand options and narrow it down to what they may actually be in the mood for. They couldn’t give 2 $hits about the Plex filters , Collections views or the useless Playlists that display more movies than they could watch in a week let along a single sitting in front of a TV. If I didn’t recently add the movie, they won’t likely won’t see it.
Help us use PLEX to effectively share our libraries. Give us the tools to make our PLEX libraries an easy-to-use experience for newbs. Give us the features to keep our PLEX experience from becoming stale every time we launch it and utilize all of it’s content.
In my opinion, this is the mind set that should be behind every answer to a feature request .
I am “not making any sense”. Then you repeat what I wrote, after claiming I wrote something different. I think you misunderstood something.
What I wrote before
On the plus side we align regarding what the stars are.
Now regarding your feature.
You want a Host to set up a display of whatever he decides should be shown for everyone as “month’s hotlist” or similar.
Now what I’ve told you that most People here talk about sharing Server Content with each other, as opposed to give the Host a showcase.
I tried to, hopefully kindly, point you to that fact.
First to make sure you don’t get disapointed if it’s implemented in a different way than you hoped for. Secondly to make sure you could ask for such a thing, if that specific feature request doesn’t yet exist. I think tbh it would be a legit one.
Hell I go as far as that I say I would love this to be an additional feature. However it’s important that we speak of the same thing when we ask for something.
Stars are NOT a Host recommendation to viewers. It just states what I might like more or less. or even how many viewers like a movie. More people could vote higher for stars, then that becomes a “Rated” recommendation. That is not a HOST recommendation.
Here’s a subtle similar explanation, when you go to a restaurant, there may be a restaurant “Chef’s Specials” (of the day, week, month). They are the Chef’s of HOST recommendations on the menu, and are not chosen by any star rated system of other patrons.
In a practical use, and more real life scenario, on Halloween I’d go through and choose 10 or 20 movies to be recommendations that could be “Halloween related” titles. In November, I’d clear the October selection and choose a different 10 or 20 titles that are “Thanksgiving” themed, and the same for December for Christmas Holiday titles. In March I might choose titles that all have a specific Actor or Actress. In August, I might choose movies that are all beach related.
I originally posted a kind of concept way of selecting HOST recommendations HERE. However, I’ve been thinking of even better ways to implement this, and even have a button where you can clear all the current host recommended titles, and then pick the new ones. I’ll post a new prototype view once I have it completed.
You are the one that replied indicating you think you know what is being asked for, but you explanation does not fit what is being stated. This indicated YOU are not reading properly, and have an inability to properly explain your thoughts. I have not tried to berate you or state that what your thoughts about the STAR system are invalid, but your attempt to describe or invalidate a HOST Recommendation system is your own choice in wasting time and has served just to cause more confusion.
Understand that you were the first to state that you disagreed with the implementation without understanding what I offered. I had offered in another thread, my type of recommendation system, but it was locked because the moderator said THIS thread already covered this content. I understand that you are relating you thoughts to the primary post and what the thread originally identified. However, the moderators felt that my content fits here and so I had to offer my own explanation of how the feature should look. I can start another thread on a recommendation system, again, but would it really serve any additional purpose; Especially, if it gets locked and referred to this thread again?
The first Block are mostly insults, not sure if I can help you regarding your personal development, but I try. No matter who is right. If someone wishes you a nice week, tries communicate on a human level. At a certain Point in adult life you should build enough confidence, calmness and kindness to treat other People - definitly those who treat you kindly and try to help you - with respect. You again seemingly did not read what I actually wrote, instead you feel offended and small out of some reason - you lash out.
If there is a rough phase in life that led to this, those are the times that make us better. Keep your head straight, there is no one who should have more confidence in you, than yourself. Time is a determined persons best friend.
Regarding the second Block. I didn t know that you already got blocked and refered here, if you read through the comments you see several possible implentations, usually quite close to the initial idea at post 1. Now why I mod would take away your suggestion as a duplicate I wonder and disagree with. But I understand where you are coming from and that you, if not confused about it, think it belongs here.
Wish you a good december, hope everything is/will be alright.
Not sure where you’re coming up with your thoughts or why. Don’t really care. You didn’t think to find out why I posted the way I did, here. You don’t need to get philosophical, just to hide that you were wrong. I never said the Star Rating system was a bad idea, and I felt it could be implemented, but the HOST rating would be easier to implement first, and both could work. You then did not understand and went off on trying to describe the original thought as if that’s what I was trying to have implemented, and redirect my idea.
You only needed to admit that you misunderstood and didn’t have the back story. Your misguided insight is completely excessive and unnecessary. Just continue the topic and forget about your argument. Everyone is going to ignore it anyway.
I just test drove the new Plex app update for Roku . I have to say I’m very impressed. Huge step in the right direction! No “Recommended” feature yet, but the ability to control the “Hubs” that display and the extra real estate on the screen to display movies is fantastic.
I think I’d like the Roku Plex Channel UI to be something remotely resembling “useful” before I started asking for additional features, despite the attractiveness of the proposed feature.
It would be great if users on a server were able to ‘recommend’ a video/movie/show/episode/album/artist/track and have it show up on a server-wide shared playlist or hub, so that other users on that server could recommend, and see other recommended content.
This shared playlist/hub should automatically filter content which is already watched by the current user.
Workflow/requirements
user ‘recommends’ a content item (any playable item type)
all users can navigate to a ‘user recommended’ playlist, or node or hub
playlist/node/hub should hide/filter out any content which has been watched by the viewing user (but not removed from the recommended list, other users may have different watched status)
admin should be able to manage recommended list by viewing complete list and removing any content items from the list.
users should be able ‘un-recommend’ any content they recommended themselves (but not other users recommendation)
on content preplay/postplay screens there should be an easily visible and accessible ‘recommended’ indicator.
recommended hub can contain any content type across any library
recommended hub should respect and hide any restrictions placed on users (ratings/labels as defined for a particular shared user)
optionally track recommendation counts, so multiple users can recommend the same content, similar to votes. this would allow weighting or sorting content by the number of users that have recommended that content.
optionally allow users to ‘hide’ content that was recommended (similar to marking watched but ideally creating a separate status. One may want to clear a recommended list but not change watch status) perhaps this could be a negative recommendation increment.
by default playlist/hub should be shown dynamically/randomly, but still able to be sorted where applicable. The main purpose would be to showcase different content whenever viewed.
I +1 this; and it seems that using a Discord channel with webhooks would be an excellent way to do this. I’ve created one for all my share-friends-and-family with updates on TV shows, movies, and music added to the collection. Including a recommender channel seems a next logical step.
Utilizing the Plex rating system as an aggregator to inform the recommender, and perhaps even an option to include ratings/recommendations from the community would provide a greater dataset to work from.
+1 on this one.
Altho it seems like it’s been an endless wait / request on the topic, we still would love the option to recommend content on our server, to the other users we share the server with.
Instead of recommended podcasts, webshows and what not… I’d like a Recommended by users. Each movie/series/album/track or similar should have a “Recommend to server users”. Server admin should be able to select categories to allow recommended content. Users should have the option to show recommended content.
After each, for an example… movie, a popup could appear depending on server settings, “would u recommend this movie to server users?” Yes/No. Other movies that u watched and want to recommend, should have the same option when you enter the content of the title.
Yes, this! I have a ton of documentaries that are episodes of larger series, so they’re not easy to find randomly. I’d love to be able to suggest particular episodes to certain users on my server.
I’d also love it if my ratings were incorporated across users/servers, so if I rated a show 5-stars, and my friend rated it 3 stars, it would average to 4-stars. It would make the rating system more relevant.
+1
Right now, i have it as a collection, but it does mess with the way i have my collection display settings. Would love to be able to add a custom list on the home menu
