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…

I can’t turn it off for my users. That’s the problem. It has become a tiresome user support issue.

The problem is that Plex doesn’t consider them your users. In their mindset they are Plex users. But they seem to forget who brought them to Plex in the first place!

Right. But this thread is discussing Roku devices.

[image] nixda: Plex’s PRIMARY OBJECTIVE for me is to PLAY LOCAL MEDIA FILES. They keep adding more friction to that core function, with stuff I don’t care about at all. I don’t want Discovery, social sharing, writing reviews, live TV, DVR, etc. etc. I just want to PLAY MY MEDIA files. I’m not…

Which I covered. In fact it’s the reason I posted. This interface is coming to all formats, and as you well know, many don’t like it, so they have an option of having another server/client system which caters to their desire for function over form.

I hadn’t realized but this is addressed in the preview channel. Reordering can be done while viewing All Libraries. [image] Plex for Roku Announcements We’ve released an update to the Plex preview channel - 9.1.33 NEW: All Libraries: display in a panel and …

I have not being using Plex to watch things recently, live channel I mostly watch is on the Roku live and went to that (lot less clicks and less hassle to get to and I have a laptop hooked to my TV an been watching things off my NAS that way), so was a bit funny went over to a friends house and he c…

Tell you friend to switch to Jellyfin :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

My server he’s connecting to, and right now don’t want to have to move everything over, be better if Plex would get rid of the person who had the Windows 8 design mentality an go back to what works best. I may play with Jellyfin and Emby at some point just for the experience. but I’ve not launched …

I’ve played with both Jellyfin and Emby a few times and can never get past the lack of polish in the UI. I only use Plex for myself, so I just got used to the New Experience on Roku. I also have an Apple TV and the released version is still the Old Side Menu (Plex will eventually update that), an…

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I hadn’t realized but this is addressed in the preview channel. Reordering can be done while viewing All Libraries.

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