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…

Who even did your beta testing? The general response is largely negative, surely one of the testers would have had a similar note . There was nothing wrong with the old layout and very easy to navigate. My family is struggling to find anything now. Please try explaining your UI with my elderly pa…

Tell me the new UI rollout was timed to give them an excuse to ignore the users long enough that the anger might die down without telling me in those words.

I understand this is part and parcel of software development, but a bug this big should never have made it out of testing channels. There was a problem when a user didn’t pin a library and after the onboarding he was met with a black screen. No message, no greyed out menu, no empty state, no call to…

Block FireTV and Apple TV from updates :smiling_face_with_sunglasses:

Not sure where to post this, never posted here before. Wondering why PLEX leadership decided to absolutely ruin the UI with the new horrific “user experience”? I mostly access/watch PLEX via ROKU but assume the new experience was forced upon all methods of access. So hard and clumsy to get to all my…

I started a vote option to let Plex know you want to go back to what works. Vote for Plex classic! [image] Vote to roll back to Plex Classic! Feature Suggestions As it says in the title, this is a vote to let Plex know you want to go back to Plex classic or ha…

My theory is that they wanted to make it look just like Netflix so when Plex has a buyer lined up they can show off how modern and “like-Netflix” it looks to the prospective new owners. I believe the new UI wasn’t supposed to be usable, it was supposed to look good at an aquisition meeting for peopl…

Will add my voice that the new top menu is terrible and takes twice as long to navigate and find anything. Been using Plex on Roku as my only way to watch TV and Movies for the last several years. The side menu was so clear and clean and by far the easiest way to navigate my library. It really is Wi…

Plain and simple, the new version is not intuitive. It’s a good example of fixing something that wasn’t broken.

As bad as the new “update” is, I could possible learn to live with it if my “Continue Watching” did not disappear. All that’s on the home screen right now are recommendations that Plex is trying to force down my throat so that it gets advertising revenue. This is happening on multiple Roku devices…

Roku New Experience Release Update

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JasonsPlex September 26, 2025, 2:20am 403

I started a vote option to let Plex know you want to go back to what works. Vote for Plex classic!

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