So Plex for the Roku has started doing this super annoying thing where it remembers the last screen I exited the app on, and resumes upon new launch in that spot.
Also, I am greatful for the following improvement:
I agree now that Iâve used it more, itâs far from obvious what episode you have selected. They also seemed to have removed the quick seen all episodes for a season.
(UX) Show watched indicator instead of full progress bar on episodes screen items and below preplay posters.
Reasons why this solution is even worse than the orange bar:
Itâs teal? It doesnât match anything happening anywhere else in the Plex universe.
It takes up even more real estate coupled with the episode number.
It is inconsistent with the movie watched/unwatched indicator. (Please, God, do not do this to the movies, too)
Come on, guys⊠bring back the wedge as the indicator, and add back the episode number at the bottom of the thumbnail. Please donât let the Teal gremlin go to Prod.
Iâm also a fan of consistency in navigation and look/feel matching on the movie side vs TV side. I am still having difficulties navigating up for episodes where everywhere else in the Plexverse itâs a down click.
My Dad gave me the greatest lesson when I was building stairs at my lake property. He told me about the importance of making sure the stairs were equally spaced and that the height remained consistent because people gain an expectation of whatâs to come based on the first few steps they take. If things are uneven, and inconsistent, they trip. You donât think about well designed stairs because you donât have to.
Now, youâre probably looking at your design and thinking it looks beautiful, and is perfectly functional⊠but I guarantee you, people are taking small mental stumbles getting through it. Those will add up over time, and although they may not be able to put a finger on it⊠theyâre going to shy away from wanting to use it.
You had a wonderful experience months ago. It worked fine. It looked great. It flowed and functioned consistently. Nobody thought twice about using it, because it just worked.
I think âChange it back!â is usually a knee-jerk reaction.
In this case I agree with @AmazingRando24. (Except âlake propertyâ, geeeeeez. )
Yellow and Orange are high-contrast colors. The high-contrast triangle anchored to the corner of the poster was easy to process. In comparison, the small teal square inside the poster, next to the episode number, is a real fight to see.
It makes more sense, to me, to indicate interesting NEW shows, rather than already-watched ones.
And of course consistency across the UI is very important. I understand that will evolve! Like a differently-sized stair, you only notice inconsistency. I never âthought aboutâ the Plex UI before, and now I trip over it.
The orange wedges were used for unwatched titles so shouting âlook st meâ made sense.
Now there is a hard to see greenish check mark for watched episodes. Wonderful, not.
I would almost prefer the orange line over the teal gremlin checkmark if Iâm being consistent in my call for consistency.
It seems there are two points in the conversation revolving around watched/unwatched:
Whether to indicate Watched or Unwatched stuff andâŠ
How to indicate that stuff
I think theyâre going about it in an odd way, as you have to dig into TV Shows to get to the watched/unwatched indicator. It would seem to make more sense to address it on the Movie side, as those indicators stand out immediately on the front pages of surfing.
So, I would think⊠if youâre addressing it there first, then all of your indicators throughout the Plex experience should follow suit. If youâre going to make a change to the TV side, then it should match throughout.
Iâm a fan of the wedge, because it stands out when browsing movies. Itâs VERY Plex-esque and almost as consistent as the brandmark of the X in PleX. It had character and made a statement. âYouâre in Plex.â I donât want it to look or feel or match another companyâs approach because it doesnât have to. It has made sense since the dawn of my Plex usage and has become something that Iâve easily accepted as part of my experience.
It was clear, concise, and on brand. Why ever in the universe would you want to change something that made such a bold statement?
I completely agree with everything youâve said. Unusual for me, Iâm not usually that agreeable.
I have poor eyesight, low vision is the PC term this week. I donât expect Plex to design around my needs but obvious and easy to see benefits everyone.
What is wrong with the orange wedge? I forget. Is it offensive to orange people? Does Trump have Plex?
Please put the Shuffle for the entire tv series back at the top level. Before you could resume a show you were watching and choose shuffle and it would pull from all seasons just not the current season you are on, like it is now. If you want to shuffle the shows for all seasons you have to go to the shows top level and choose shuffle from thereâŠnot a happy shuffler here peopleâŠ
I would fine with an option to hide watched episodes altogether. The way you can have Plex not display shows with no unwatched episodes or hiding watched movies.
I really hate to keep beating a dead horse that Plex doesnât seem to be paying any more attention to⊠but I noticed yet another annoyance with the new directionâŠ
I was rifling through a season of a show in Plex Preview and noticed that I had completely bypassed the teal gremlin checkmarks and overshot my desired stopping point without realizing it. My eyes completely missed the watched/unwatched indicator being that small, in that color, in its current location.
The orange beam across the bottom stood out more in this use case⊠and of course, the orange wedge is still more preferable.
One wonders if the design philosophy is: âWe took a step backwards. In order to fix it, we must step back more.â
I think itâs change just for the sake of change now.
If itâs change to get all platforms uniform why not start with what was working and we are used to, the orange wedge for unwatched?
We had long discussions about accessibility compliance a couple of years ago. Please donât forget about that aspect. Some us need or at least appreciate the ab9lity to glace at the screen and know what is going on. I shouldnât have to scrutinize the screen to see what I havenât watched yet.
I was satisfied with PLEX pre UNO because I use it for limited purposes (music and movies on my home network, only). Unlike in life, where you canât âgo backâ in time, I could and I did with my PLEX setup.
I rolled my servers back to a pre-UNO version, logged out of my account at both the server and client level and am now back where I was ±3-years ago. Itâs amazing how much snappier my setup is now.
In doing so, I realized that I only really like and use PLEX for its media library management tools (via the Web App on my PC desktop). Iâve never been a fan of their client apps, so I stopped using them and turned on DLNA. VoilĂ .
I recognize my solution wonât appeal to or work for a lot of people. If youâre married to the PLEX client apps, then youâre stuck. But if youâre not, itâs quite a liberating experience.
I noticed the same thing, however I wanted to enable it to see how it functioned.
I now see that itâs on my home screen on the hosted web app, havenât checked on my SHIELD yet.
Maybe @StSimm1 can let us know where this option is supposed to be (and I did check from the hosted web app and not the local web app and didnât see it).
I looked and didnât see a support article on this yet (though I just did a search on âseason hubâ or something like that.