It’s redundant. When I’m on my computer I want to manage all my Libraries, there’s never a situation where I only want some of my libraries available. At least make the option to disable pinning. I unpinned every library but it still brings me to an annoying More> Page where I have to click every time to access my libraries. And pinning every library isn’t an option either, because as I add and remove libraries I’d be constantly have to remember to Pin them all. Big waste of time and not a useful feature.
It most certainly is not. For example, I have access to multiple servers and would like certain libraries from different servers to be immediately accessible.
You can do that. Go to Settings (upper right on the Web client), then on the left, scroll down to “Manage” and then Libraries.
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I would bet the vast majority of users only have 1 server and find “Pinning” a useless and annoying tool.
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Is there some reason you’re not voting for your own feature suggestion?
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Instead of requesting to remove pinning, which some do find useful, perhaps a better request would be to have an option to default to the “more” / show all list.
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I certainly would not approve of removing pinning from the web app.
I have only one server, and I find pinning to be very useful, and one of the better decisions Plex has made. I have libraries that require little or no attention, and I have libraries that I use more often via the Shield, and others that I use more often from the Web app. So being able to have one set of libraries pinned on the web app and a different set on the Shield is brilliantly useful. It works very well with the new ability to re-order the libraries.
Perhaps an option to pin a library as it is being created would make pinning everything a viable solution for you.
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The default home page is showing me web content and some other thing i don’t want , i just want my server to load and that is it no web content no nothing , i have other platforms for that.
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But if you ever have to delete a library…which is common in plex with all the errors (still waiting for user Trailers to work), it automatically unpins it…so now you’re constantly unpinning and pinning just to maintain the homepage…when just showing all your servers as a default would be much easier. At the very least make PINNING secondary…let plex load to your main page with EVERYTHING…and have “Pinned” as a secondary option next to “Home” considering it’s a secondary way of viewing anyway.
It’s like when I open chrome I can go to any webpage I want I’m not limited to my “Favorites”. I don’t have to log into Chrome and click a “Unlock” button to allow me to see everything. The Default is usually what MOST people want and then if you add Secondary features that only a few people use you put those in the background. Home page should be EVERYTHING, and if you want to access your pinned libraries there should be a button Under Home called “Pinned”. And even if I did use the pinned feature, you actually put the “More” button WAY down on the bottom why? Put “Pinned” under “Home” on the top for people who use that secondary feature to be able to access it and make your default page what it should be, a full featured view.
If you want to see all of the libraries, then simply PIN all of the libraries.
Like I said when you edit libraries and add or remove, they automatically become unpinned. I tried that at first and I was constantly pinning and unpinning it was more trouble than it was worth so then I removed everything. Now everytime I log on to Plex i got a blank left page with a “More>” button that I have to click everytime. The main page should be exactly what that means…the MAIN page…then if you want a secondary view such as pinned items, similar to how Favorites or Bookmarks is on webrowsers then you click the link to those things, the main page shouldn’t be restricted to that view.
There’s a few ways to do it:
Place “Pinned” under “Home” for users who use the feature to access that secondary view
Disable Pinning in an option in Settings
Auto-pin Libraries as they are created option in Settings
Any of those would work for people who don’t use the Pinned Libraries feature.
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why are you constantly editing/adding/removing libraries?
If there were an option to pin a new library while creating it, as I suggested earlier, that extra step would be eliminated.
If there’s a problem that requires frequent deleting and recreating libraries, that’s an issue that should be corrected. But it’s a pretty poor reason to remove a popular feature.
It may be a secondary way of viewing for you, but not for me, and I don’t think you can make a case for your assertion that only a few people use it. My impression is that it is quite popular.
The “More” button is at the bottom because its intended use is to get to libraries that are less commonly used (which is why they’re not pinned), and so the "More"button itself is less commonly used. It makes no sense to put it at the top. I would be fine if the “More” button could be re-ordered like any library, but not moving it to the top. That just moves more frequently-used menu items farther down.
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It’s crazy cuz years ago when I first started using Plex Users including Moderators laughed at me for even having 12 Libraries let alone the 80+ libraries I have now and here you are saying “the less used Libraries”. How fortunate are we to have such a dilemma. And I’m constantly adding and removing Libraries because Plex errors alot. It took me forever to get Trailers to work, I had to reinstall Plex twice, delete all my Libraries, it worked for 2 months then a Plex Update came out and now Trailers don’t work again despite doing another full uninstall and reinstall. When I get metadata errors and added movies are no longer scanned, there’s a hundred different reasons to delete libraries or uninstall and reinstall plex it happens all the time. (Never heard of the “Plex Dance”???)
Like I said at LEAST make new libraries Auto-Pin or have a setting to Disable Pinning altogether I think we can all agree on that.
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If you have 80+ libraries, you are either doing it wrong, or doing it wrong.
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Half of them are all my movie genres mirrored into trailer libraries. I’d have half as many if user Trailers worked.
to each his own.
you should consider using collections to group movie genres instead of separate libraries.
if you have trailer problems - > new thread + all system details + logs
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If you’re tired of Plex not doing an Actor Image Search across libraries:
…like I was - and got tired of waiting for Plex, then came up with The Mother Of All Work-Arounds…lol
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80 Libraries?
I just can’t imagine that, you need to let the media manager do the managing…
