@terahz said:
I’ll have to agree that the new UI is pretty bad and straight out not working. I have a dozen people watching videos of my daughter via Plex and now I have to tell(guide) each one of them to click More, select Other videos, click on the top to select the right library, click All items, click the sort button and order by Date Added and then do almost all these steps to go see all videos every time they want to see a list of all videos in the library.
THIS! And the new IOS app as well.
You know, telling us to “get used to it” is not a good tactic. Some companies never recover from a bad move like this. Windows 8 and even Windows 10 never got the good name back from Windows XP or 7. Ever. Microsoft did the same stupid design decisions too. It’s users that had to point out it now takes 3 clicks to do something that took 1. Their response? You’ll get used to it.
I’m not sure what your point is about Windows. Microsoft has gone from strength to strength on Windows 10, and most people are migrating to it. So far from “not recovering” from it, Microsoft are pushing forward with strength.
Also, the people whining in this post are the absolute minority. There’s going to be a huge swathe of people using Plex who are totally fine with the new UI, and plenty who will like it (I prefer it - it’s way better than the previous version, and far more intuitive).
The key point here is that some people are massively resistant to change, and some people aren’t. Those who are will gnash and wail about it, rather than give constructive feedback on how the new thing can be made even better. The rest of us just think “Well, this is nice” and move on with our lives.
Your company is probably on Win7 because it’s too complicated or costly for them to migrate. I doubt they’re staying as-is just because of some UX preferences of the users (unless it’s a very small company). Any reasonable sized company with a sensible security and IT policy will move to Win10. So I’m not sure what your point is here.
And yes, not all change is good. But not all change that a vocal minority dislike is bad either.
You do if you bought a toaster that worked exactly as you wanted, they then came to your house, removed half the elements, called it an “upgrade” and it never toasted to the same level again.
Being that we paid for a product and that product now isn’t what we paid for, I feel justified in the backlash that has developed as a result.
You say removed the elements, I say re arranged the elements. Its all still there you just have to take the time to adjust.
People these days just can’t handle change.
Ok then,
Show me all the playlists in one place as with the non-crap working previous version. Good luck.
@“Mark Otway” said:
I’m not sure what your point is about Windows. Microsoft has gone from strength to strength on Windows 10, and most people are migrating to it. So far from “not recovering” from it, Microsoft are pushing forward with strength.
Also, the people whining in this post are the absolute minority. There’s going to be a huge swathe of people using Plex who are totally fine with the new UI, and plenty who will like it (I prefer it - it’s way better than the previous version, and far more intuitive).
The key point here is that some people are massively resistant to change, and some people aren’t. Those who are will gnash and wail about it, rather than give constructive feedback on how the new thing can be made even better. The rest of us just think “Well, this is nice” and move on with our lives.
intuitive? that cluttered, complicaed mess? How is that more intuitive than the old, easy to navigate, user-friendly app? Playlists for instance are screwed up b beyond recognition. No surprise, it’s the same botched, counterintuitive interface as the now utterly useless PMP.
The new UI is clearly more cluttered. Clearly. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to see that. Whether or not you prefer that to the old way is certainly up to debate, but NOT that is more cluttered. It’s obvious.
@robertsig said:
People are forced to go to Windows 10. My company is still on Windows 7.
Not all change is good. That’s a foolish position.
Windows 7 is beyond end of life and only has another 2 years of support. You’re going to be like the XP in 2018 user if you carry on with that attitude, unable to accept change.
@robertsig said:
People are forced to go to Windows 10. My company is still on Windows 7.
Not all change is good. That’s a foolish position.
Windows 7 is beyond end of life and only has another 2 years of support. You’re going to be like the XP in 2018 user if you carry on with that attitude, unable to accept change.
Wait until people start complaining about the ribbon changes to Office. Completely dumbed down to the most basic of elements. Driven by what their AI thinks customers use and will update weekly or monthly. You want to talk about a mess - wait until that rolls out and the generations of people using Office will be in uproar.
Plex always has the need to throw the kitchen sink at things when they incorporate something new. The probably feel that this new UI will give them the best way to add new things in the future without drastic change ( maybe even standardizing the UI on all devices). After the install bugs are worked out of the Guide they will probably add some customization to the UI so some can have cluttered and others can be more basic.
It took me several minutes to try and locate where my Playlists had gone. Turns out a Playlist of my of films is now found in “Shows”, Slow clap for you Plex team. Every App is now awful. I now need to “click” several times more to get to something that never used to make as many user inputs.
@tom80H said: @bigdippertiger – let it grow on you for a few days/weeks… the new design has its perks that just need some getting used to.
Let it grow on you. I don’t know… with this new interface all this phrase brings to mind is a parasite consuming its host organism.
Sorry, don’t mean to insult, it truly is what comes to mind.
More seriously, I don’t know what perks you are talking about, please list some.
For me, the shortcomings are too numerous to list them all, but here is a sampler:
Takes more clicks to do what I used to be able to do with one or two. For example, play random music tracks from a particular library.
The category bar at the bottom takes too much space when my phone is in landscape mode.
The UI goes contrary with Plex’s design philosophy of organizing your media by library. Now everything is bundled under categories.
Throughout the course of a day I consume a lot of media that all falls across different types of the categories on the bottom bar. Doesn’t matter how I arrange it, something I use on a daily basis WILL fall outside the readily available categories and I’ll need to press the More button.
Just a sample, with no particular order of importance, I could keep going thought.
@earratia said:
Doesn’t matter how I arrange it, something I use on a daily basis WILL fall outside the readily available categories and I’ll need to press the More button.
not sure what their fascination with watch now and recent this and that. When you first open maybe. But when you open a library you want the library not more of recent this and that or watch now. I would like to watch now but after 10 or 15 more clicks.
not sure what their fascination with watch now and recent this and that.
Well, When I open plex, the thing I almost always want to watch is something added recently - the latest episode of a show, or a new movie that dropped into my library. So for many people like me, it makes total sense.
If you don’t like the ‘Recently added’ stuff, why not just remove it from the home screen?
not sure what their fascination with watch now and recent this and that.
Well, When I open plex, the thing I almost always want to watch is something added recently - the latest episode of a show, or a new movie that dropped into my library. So for many people like me, it makes total sense.
If you don’t like the ‘Recently added’ stuff, why not just remove it from the home screen?
Does make me wonder at people’s thought process sometimes.
How anyone will not want recently added is totally weird to me.
If someone has no interest in media that’s recently added to their server then why add that particular show/movie in the first place?
Home Screen is useless for the one who wants their Libraries there, all you can add is Recent Show, Playlist, Music. etc. It’s not “really” customize-able.
What if I could make playlists of stuff and add it to the Home Screen? Nope. Can’t even do that.
Sure, recently added is useful for TV-shows for me. What I can’t stand is the “Movies by director blabla” or “More TV-shows from channel XYZ”. And “continue watching” as well as “on deck”. In my world they are redundant. But for me the workaround is always offline for my iOS-apps and OpenPHT on my media computer.
