Guess you’ve never played call of duty or Warzone? They do that exact thing. Remove maps and functionality periodically (way worse than what Plex has done) and reintroduce said maps or features at a later date. Making the previous game build unplayable.
It’s modern software development unfortunately and 'm not saying its right but its the way software, games and pretty much everything is handled nowadays.
THAT’s the problem right there! DO NOT ALLOW THIS to be acceptable! It’s okay to let corporations know that they messed up and they should be held to the fire for it. They want our data, they want our usage out of their products and services, then they will have to produce a product and service that is worth our time and money.
I mean I agree it’s not the right way I would like to see things happen, I would prefer Plex have waited until all essential features were built into the app sure, but unfortunately in 2025 businesses are moving so fast to keep up with changing technologies its hard to do it that way.
And they didn’t call it a preview.
False equivalent.
And? So? Plex Inc chose the architecture in which they used to build their service on. And while yes, application tech and usage of new hardware resources enables better advancement for increased capabilities, you can’t deny that types of media have just dried up and vanished.
Audiobooks, both digital and physical media are still in demand and are in healthy conditions. Music, TV and Film are still going solid. Podcasts are now over saturated but are not going anywhere. Yet so much of what has been ASKED FOR and REQUESTED for over a decade still has yet to materialize and THAT’s what many dedicated users may have wanted to see with the new UI experience. Some of us already have been through the several alterations of UI DX’s Plex has made. Every year there seems to always be a change to how someone has to maneuver in the apps. Do you understand why some of us are finding it VERY difficult to give leniency to the leadership of Plex?
I have to agree here. The direction plex is taking is worrisome and has been for years.
Yeah I would like to see long requested features added for sure. I’ve been hanging with Plex since it was XBMC so I too have changed so many times with Plex and seen Plex evolve into many different things. In the end Plex always comes back to a stable place when they go off course for a bit. And Plex Media Server which is the core of Plex has never really failed to deliver or lose core functionality. If it ever does then we have an actual problem.
PMS is still stable for Movie, TV, Music and Audiobook libraries and with more 3rd party agents coming to Plex that should only improve with the current direction they are taking.
I have said it’s not good for Plex to change JUST for the sake of change and have pushed back on the focus when they drift a bit far from personal media. But it seems they are keeping personal media a focus, adding NFO support in the future, allowing 3rd party agents which should open up deeper Audiobook support and potential Comics/Books/PDF support.
I’ve been around long enough to realize Plex is gonna make changes. They add/remove features at a moments notice sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse. But throughout all the changes Plex has never failed to keep the core product (PMS) operating extremely well. So personally I’m optimistic on what I’ve been hearing from Plex but I do understand the concern some users have. I just don’t think the overwhelming negativity in the forums reflect Plex accurately as a company.
It WAS a preview until they officially rolled it out, replacing the existing IOS version in the App Store at the end of March. At that point it was no longer a PREVIEW version!
I’m not sure, I can’t watch that episode anymore because the new app works like crap
plex is dead. that new “update” is unusable. literally.
Play call of duty? You’re a lame troll.
It’s actually crazy how much MrFancyPants1999 is all over these forums day after day defending these bad business practices that everyone can agree are bad… except for him.
Hope it’s ok to ask this here, didn’t seem worth adding a new thread. Do we know for certain or at least have a good idea of whether AirPlay will be coming back? I travel a lot for work and the hotels I stay in allow AirPlay so it’s a really key feature for me; I just bought a lifetime past very recently so it would be really disappointing to have to move to Infuse permanently but it would be useful to know if this is/probably is just a temporary thing. It’s such a basic feature it’s hard to believe they would remove it, but the discussion in this thread is making me wonder?
Yes, everyone knows plex has some serious issues, and is basically dead in the water. There’s no fixing stupid (or brain dead), so I will just leave him to his delusions of grandeur.
I do hope Plex gets fixed, but I’m NOT waiting around for it to be fixed, cause it may never recover. This worked flawlessly for me. I suggest you go check it out.
Unfortunately at this time, we do not know anything about anything for certain. They do not generally share their plans.
A while back I did a post called ‘don’t buy plex’, got a lot of ■■■■ at the time.
I appreciate your post so I didn’t have to start the thread myself.
Having just received an email saying that I now have to pay again and ongoing for something I paid them a ■■■■ load of money for in my lifetime plexpass, they tell me they’ll let me continue to use it for 14 days till I do. If you already paid for it by buying an app, they’ll stop providing the service you already paid for in 3 months rather than cutting you off after 14 days’.
And just to demonstrate that they are absolute dicks intent on mocking the people who buy their spyware, I mean software, by ending it with ‘Your friends at plex’.
The ONLY people who have ‘friends at plex’ are the people who buy data about YOU and your usage. They are plex’s customers now. YOU are their product.
The ONLY reason I’ve kept plex running on a spare system is a couple friends had access to it and I paid for LIFETIME use of ALL its features.
If anybody else in the same boat knows a lawyer who wants to make a ■■■■ ton of money off a class action suite, I’m in.
Ultimately Plex was dead the moment they switched their focus from keeping the people who buy their software happy, to spying on their customers. The good news is as they keep making their product worse, things like the free and open source JellyFin look MUCH better by comparison, even though they lack a few of the bells and whistles.
For the sake of ShadowPDX The last time I checked several months ago, JellyFin devs were planning on implementing something similar to what you mention called synchplay.
I’ve been using Jellyfin for more than a year now, and it compares well, and the devs don’t intentionally create an adversarial relationship with their ‘customers’ as plex seems intent on doing.
It’s one thing to charge for an actual service, but what Plex is doing is charging you to NOT break your existing streaming setup on your OWN damned server, using your own bandwidth. It’s shameful. That is NOT a service, that is extortion.
My plex server is now down permanently so nobody I know will even consider giving them any money.
This is very vague, can you be more detailed?
Unless you received a completely different email to anyone else, no you didn’t. What you’ve done is misread/misunderstand the email you were sent.
Anyone who already had a lifetime pass doesn’t need to pay anything else, nor will remote streaming be impacted by the changes.
I didn’t get this email. I’m curious what it looks like now lol.
Can someone post it?
