Almost 4 years since this discussion started, so my hopes are not very high, but i can’t understand why even plex team members refuse this. If it’s a matter of can’t implement i could get it (altough i really find it hard to believe that in 4 years a project as plex could not implement a feature like this), but it seems the plex team is reluctant to implement a feature beacuse there are workarounds. Personally it doesn’t bother me using workarounds, but in this case you are breaking a core functionality of a media server: being able to mark episodes as watched or unwatched. Surprise, surprise, users use the watch/unwatch function to be able to know if an episode or movie has been seen or not! If it were some other workaround that didn’t compromise a fairly important feature of a media server… but it isn’t.
Besides for those who fervently oppose, it wouldn’t change a thing. Take trakt as an example (which i keep synchronized with plex), its “Up next to watch” is almost equivalent to the plex “On deck”, but you can hide items, and if you later wanna restore them, you can. You don’t lose any information about what you saw or not.
The goal here is to not lose information.
But well, i don’t have my hopes up to be heard (by the plex team, at least).
And what you say, Lockjaw, is exactly right. Some of us spend so much energy making sure the database is safe not because of all the material there but because of the watchhistory - and then we are expected to simply mess with it, negating the whole thing?
This is the thread that will never die… 4.5 years in and still nothing. At this point it feels like they aren’t adding this very simple feature just out of spite. I guess they feel they’ve provided workarounds (very poor ones at that!) so this request shouldn’t matter.
Hello from 2020
+1 for this.
Really annoying not to have the option to exclude a single season (or even a single show) to appear on ‘on the deck’. ALl workarounds hare have its flaws.
Just a checkbox on a season and ‘remove to on the deck’ would do
+1 please add this feature.
Happens that half way through a series I don’t feel like watching it again, but don’t want to go out there and mark everything as watched (because it also screws up the stats) as it’s simply to much work to keep doing all the time.
+1 for this feature. Same issues as many here: watched a few episodes, dropping the series without watching it all, would like a simple way to clear such items cluttering “On Deck”.
+1 here. In fact I’d be even happier to remove “On Deck” from ever showing up. I’m glad for anyone who finds it useful, but for me and for my family it’s merely clutter. I’m not even sure what the purpose is for On Deck anyway when there’s a “Continue Watching” row that shows the same stuff. If there was just an option to delete On Deck items at least I could clear some garbage from my UI, one entry at a time.
… and that’s pretty much it - other than clever manipulation of Played/UnPlayed.
I won’t belittle the point that is, in fact, ignernt, but Contiue Watching Shows Movies and TV while On Deck ONLY shows the next TV Show Episode in the queue.
Continue Watching only has 3 slots
On Deck has as many as you stick in the adjustment area shown above.
I love my Roku - it lets me list ONLY Movies in Continue Watching - as I have On Deck right below it and can see the progress bar for TV Shows in progress.
Unfortunately that Genius Development Feature doesn’t translate to the rest of Plex.
Buy a Roku.
What can I say?
Almost ALL of the nearly 2 Million Plex Users find On Deck a necessary element in their viewing habits. I put 75 items in my On Deck 'cause I’ve got about 100 Shows IN PROGRESS at any time - hundreds of shows watched, hundreds of shows unwatched - no way to keep track of all that in my head.
Sometimes I feel people really would be happier with VLC and a file explorer - when they want to defeat every Plex Feature.
Having said that - you guys can dump Every Hub from the home screen. When/If you need to find something to watch you can go to your TV Show or Movie Library, hit the Recommended Tab and you’ll see your On Deck and Various Hub items. Not very convenient, but maybe that’s what you want.
Leaves me wondering what you want on the Home Page.
Empty Space?
I dunno - carry on.
Yeah, that would be a decent solution, and you would have a point if it actually existed on my Plex UI (on my Roku or anywhere else I watch).
I can’t speak on behalf of anyone else here, but I’ve tried adjusting those settings many times over the last year on multiple media servers and viewing devices. However, the UI usually displays series I’ve already watched or haven’t touched in months. It has no regard for what I’ve actually been watching recently, the maximum number in the settings, where I leave off, etc. So adding this half-assed “continue watching” media list rather than fixing the first one is simply poor UX design that clutters the UI.
You say you have features and settings that actually work for how you use it. I’m happy for you. Enjoy it. The rest of us might as well let the developers know when the current layout doesn’t function even by their own design.
On the Roku you hit the * key when the row is highlighted and select delete hub from the options.
If your image is from Plexweb - you have hover the mouse over the area - then the X shows up.
Plex’s design is adequate enough so that over a million users have no real issue with it - and we’ve been trying to get them to cure The Plex Dance for 114 years so… good luck.
The Plex Dance was a work-around invented by AN EMPLOYEE!
and is a work-around as old as Plex is.
5 Years is Like the last 1/2 inch in Tyson’s Cosmic Calendar.
On Deck can be confused.
If you bounce around hit and miss through unwatched media leaving partially watched items by the thousands - chances are you’re gonna screw up your On Deck and make Continue Watching useless.
I’ve had to ReSet an entire series - then locate my last unwatched item setting everything before it Watched. It happens. Deal with it.
I’ve got Billions Additions right now that are in the queue for Season 5. I don’t want to watch S5 yet, so as they come in, I mark 'em watched, taking them out of On Deck.
I watch new Family Guys as soon as they come in - afterwards I mark them unwatched 'cause I’ve got 18 Seasons of them IN PROGRESS in On Deck ReRuns (24/7/365) and don’t want to screw that up. When I get to the end - I go back to the beginning - mark the show Unwatched and here we go again.
Easy. No Design Overhaul necessary. But good luck making it happen.
You shouldn’t be able to “screw” on deck up. You shouldn’t have to mark as watched something that you didn’t watch, or as unwatched something that you did watch.
I disagree, it’s not “easy”. Yes, it’s a workaround, but not a solution.
A guy can dream, though i have next to zero hope. But as i have an email in every response to this thread, i will replay now and then.
