I don’t have anything new to say that others aren’t saying, just piling on. For the Roku app, the change in UI as it relates to finding and playing from local libraries is horrible. It requires more clicks, and more scrolling, and the change to a horizontal scroll bar of libraries is bad.
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I ONLY use my libraries, I don’t use any of the other Plex “features” and now navigating my libraries and switching between them is a pos experience. It feels like they are now an after thought over the content they want to provide to me. The only reason why I use and paid a lifetime for Plex is to more easily access my content and they are like eff you watch our crap instead. Truely pissed off over this new and improved experience.
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Oh and it looks like I can no longer rescan my libraries from the Roku app either. Absolutely maddening! Unusable pos redesign.
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I have been a big proponent for Plex on our Podcast and YT channel for years. That will stop today. This “update” is, as everybody else says, horrendous. You can bet my 150K viewers & listeners are gonna hear about it. I hate to say it but I’m really considering going back to Kodi or figuring out Jellyfin at this point and I have a lifetime sub to Plex.
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Yes I noticed that too, forgot to add on my original post.
I do like occasionally rescanning libraries directly from the Roku app instead of my PC where the content is stored
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Ugh, This is awful. I did find the re scan button. You have to hover over the Library in the top bar that keeps disappearing and reappearing. and push the * on the remote. Took me like 10 minutes to figure out how to view movies by Title. Yah this needs to get redone it is bad enough to make me want to switch to jellyfin.
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Second this, the roku is terrible for plex now
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I wish I didn’t purchase the lifetime pass so I could cancel and they’d at least see one drop in revenue.
This is pure greed. They don’t make anything off people streaming their own media from their own server, ie THE ENTIRE REASON I GOT IT!
I don’t care about Live TV, On Demand, or Discover. I just want my libraries to be easy to access and not take a damn guide to navigate thru!
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They must be related to Microsoft - when they find something that works perfect, they change it to be more difficult.
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Agreed. The new UI is the Windows 8 of the Plex world.
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Please change back to the previous UI. The new UI is not customizable and doesn’t refresh when I click on a menu item. It’s not intuitive and really difficult to navigate.
Please change back to the previous UI.
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Another “thumbs down” vote for this update. Like many others it has made using my local library much worse than before. Why do companies do things like this? Who thought this was a good idea and why? Very frustrating. I hope they fix it or go back to the old setup.
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The roku update is terrible. How can I change it back?
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