Hi everyone! First - thank you for your feedback. I, and others all around Plex, have spent the last twenty-four+ hours reading through messages both here, on Reddit, and in other locations. We are still evaluating this broad response, but wanted to get an update out. Let’s get the big question out…

Everyone. Plex is scrubbing comments. I will be retaining counsel on this unacceptable action. To be clear. I used no threats, just that this UI change is ridiculous.

[image] LJ5109: Plex is scrubbing comments. Follow the forum guidelines and that will not happen. https://forums.plex.tv/guidelines

Genuinely need Plex to offer the old app as a secondary option until this new experience is feature complete. No one wants Watch Together gone

Since the new UI update, nothing that I have added since the update will play. It gets stuck on loading. Just a circle. Doesn’t even show a %. If there isn’t going to be a rollback, I can’t imagine that I will wait weeks, months to watch something I added today when an update is finally released to …

I don’t know if this already exists, but if not, would it be possible to get a thread or page that is just status updates on this from the Plex team? I get it, the new version is flawed and you are working on it, but I don’t want to have to scroll through hundreds of angry user messages to find empl…

You can follow the release notes. [image] Plex for Roku Announcements We’ve released an update to the Plex preview channel - 8.6.6 FIXES: Fix a crash viewing Libraries from an older server version. Fix overflow options for non-favorited libraries. Fix possi…

Thank you. I was hoping for something more along the lines of known issues being worked on in the next release, like a service desk experience or sprint ticket list or something. That at least gets me what has been done which is helpful.

Plex doesn’t announce what they are working on so you won’t find a thread like that.

I was/am getting this HOWEVER when I went up to the “libraries” bubble and clicked it, a drop down of sorts appeared. As I went from each of my libraries (sideways meh) some populated and some did not. Movies are identified as TV shows and TV Shows are identified as movies but the content (or at lea…

A bit of constructive feedback (since so many of the other threads are just ■■■■■-fests): [20250923_174422_crop] The UltraBlur or whatever it was called effect here is a bit too heavy. I think someone else might have mentioned it elsewhere, but it really is too thick over the background image. Li…

Roku New Experience Release Update

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You can follow the release notes.

Topic		Replies	Views
New UI is an awful experience Plex Players roku	749	18809	August 21, 2026
Plex Just Ruined Their Roku App Plex Players roku	283	6600	December 28, 2025
WTF did Plex do to the GUI on Roku? Plex Players roku	141	3295	November 7, 2025
Comments on: Plex Roku Preview: A Faster, Simpler Navigation Experience Plex Experience Preview roku , roku-preview	210	4531	August 18, 2026
Vote to roll back to Plex Classic! Feature Suggestions fire-tv , apple-tv , roku	287	8351	August 21, 2026

Roku New Experience Release Update

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