I’m at a loss for words, but I’ll try with a few: Who exactly pushed to release this incomplete and buggy mess out into the public in this state? Is this for real? Cool, a new design… cool, new logos… everything else is worse in every way. The new player is awful. Can’t full screen with a double…

Luckily found the latest legacy apk file and installed that. No automatic updates for me!

Has plex responded to these issues yet? If so where? Seems like they stole a page out of Sonos’s book. At least Sonos had the decency to email its customers to apologize and list the steps they were doing to fix the issue.

No statement by plex? Do they even give a damn?

One developer has commented on a few posts here. Kudos to that dev. Other than that, Plex released a “we’re sorry, we hear you… we’re still moving forward with all this” message on the forums last week. They learned absolutely NOTHING from Sonos… how’d that turn out for Sonos’s CEO? Short answer, no…

I agree with everything you said. They are not hearing us, trust in plex as a company is gone. TBH I don’t see how the project lead for this can keep their job.

Actually amazing… so I won’t even be able to keep testing the preview app while keeping the old one installed, since the Beta is not a separate package but actually overwrites the default one. I’m truly baffled. Every decision keeps getting worse. Great job Plex team, as usual, keep it up.

After today’s post from Plex I have less and less faith in this team. They have screwed their users and owe everyone an apology for their terrible communication and hamfisted release schedule. Shame on their CEO and upper management.

Okay I’m not sure it was the best idea to retire the experience preview as the people who are likely to give you the best feedback are the people who still have access to and use the old app. The idea of replacing the stable apps with the beta version and not being able to go back to the old experi…

This is horrible. It’s time to move to Jellyfin. I only use the Plex for myself at this point, what a waste of 11 years. Holy crap man.

Releasing the new app was a crazy decision

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jclifton April 15, 2025, 3:56pm 189

LOL they just doubled down on the “meh, we hear you that it sucks, but we’re still charging ahead with it and not even giving you a legacy client to use in the short term” Mobile (phone/tablet) Preview migrating to Beta channel

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Releasing the new app was a crazy decision

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