The new app is aweful it steps upon steps
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Youāre a programmer of 15 years but donāt understand the implications of having an extra option to roll back?
Roll it back!
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I worked in government. Some of my apps supposed millions of people. And I had to maintain different versions for different browsers and such. So yes. Maintaining different versions was common. If it didnāt work or we got a lot of feedback we had different options for install. What software company doesnāt have legacy version available. I can still install the old Plex on my phone via versioned apks. But on Roku Iām forced into whatever the latest version is. No way to stop it.
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The whole reason for the new app is to prevent having to maintain different versions. Giving an option to roll back not only defeats the purpose of that but would also give them two completely different codebases to maintain.
They could offer an option to switch back and just drop support for the old app but people would probably complain even more, and rightly so, especially when a server update ends up rendering that app completely obsolete.
For a company that has already had two recent rounds of layoffs and trying to reduce workload, what you suggest is obviously not feasible, otherwise there would be no need for the new app in the first place.
Said the same thing, this is not the original target audience. Itās execs looking for a new audience and revenue stream from ads. Everything about the update, from the default settings to hiding the local server contented under layers of unintuitive menus screams of forcing the free/ad-supported content. Very sad to see Plex fall 
Hopefully the new destination holds out longer (Jellyfin), so far itās been an easy setup and more intuitive for my 2 older users.
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(This is not targeted at you specifically, itās just that your comment brought this to my attention enough to comment on it. Genuine curiosity as I truly donāt know the answer myself.)
Iām always curious when someone mentions a successful migration to JF: What client(s) are you using which provide(s) a satisfactory experience? I use JF as a backup to my PMS, and Iāve yet to find a client which is stable and performant enough that Iād want to migrate to JF as a permanent solution.
Iām primarily in the Apple ecosystem, but I use Roku and Android as well. The only fit-for-purpose client Iāve found across any of these platforms is Infuse (third-party) on Apple devices. And even then there are compromises.
The ānativeā clients are all half-baked side-projects which never seem to mature and get better. Theyāre more like Petri dishes where the developers are just playing around and testing stuff out.
And there are enough quality of life features missing from the platform itself that would make it unattractive in general (flaky transcoder, no native secure remote connections, no live TV EPG data provided, etcā¦). Each one of these is ok on their own, but they add up, depending on your use case.
What was an easy arrow left, then down to the library you want is several to get to the same list of libraries and many clicks to get to the list of content. And Iāve yet how to figure out how to default to ābrowseā vs ārecommendedā.
Netflix did something similar and I cancelled when it they told me they wonāt switch back. This is worse. HOW, oh HOW did Plex get worse than Netflix??!!!
What a hot mess! A real thumb your nose at paying customers then stick that thumb in our ***.
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You select your avatar at the upper-right of the screen. You then select Settings ā Experience. You then configure the default view.
Appears Iāve done that. Doesnāt work. Interface sucks sweaty ____s. Over engineered it.
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Iām sorry, I had Apple TV on the brain when I described the above. What I should have suggested was:
Gear icon (top-right) ā Experience ā Default Library View
I didnāt consider that maybe you were on Roku.
Setting this to āBrowseā should default the library view to the browse view when you select a library. Youāll always be dropped into Home upon starting the app.
You can also save yourself a click by enabling spring loading in the same section.
Finally, if you havenāt favorited your preferred libraries, you can save yourself some grief by doing so.
If none of this helps, Iād suggest opening a new thread and include:
- The specific client platform with which youāre experiencing issues.
- The client version.
- A description of exactly what youāre having problems with.
- Any other details you feel are relevant.
The new interface generally works well, now at least. If you want assistance in setting it up there are several folks on these forums who will gladly help, including myself.
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Yes. Roll that ā ā ā ā back. You donāt fix what aināt broke.
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Jellyfin on Roku Ultra (5x) here, and a single Android that only streams music. Not had a single crash or performance issue that Iāve experienced or had reported so far, had one video that showed up with a green tint but Iām 90% sure it was the encode and not the ecosystem, I just deleted and used a different video. Use cases here are mostly TV shows, and then a few movies sprinkled in, then minimal music streaming on an Android phone. Our use is ALL ālocalā, the only remote location is connected via VPN so I consider it ālocalā when weāre thinking about encryption.
Weāre not very demanding maybe of the environment, just wanted simple playback of our locally stored media - if youāre hitting crashes or performance issues then we may have some different use cases.
The only complaint I have so far is that the media identification engine is not as good as Plex - ended up using Tiny Media Manager to sort out ton of metadata issues I had on my side which seems to have fixed all those problems.
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Thanks for this. I switched to Emby but Iāve been keeping tabs here to see how long it takes before a Plex employee actually shows their face. While that hasnāt happened, I did stumble upon your gem and this tool has helped me a ton.
Iāll give Plex credit for working better than the alternatives and itās definitely made me lazy. Iām paying for that laziness now by having to force uniformity across 24TB of media. At the same time, that willingness to spend that amount of time and effort shows what a terrible path Plex has taken.
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Plex Classic is an unbelieable win over this trash. The programmers apparently dont actually do any QA/QC testing, nor listen to users, or actually use any of the code they write given what Im still seeing over a month after release of this latest Roku App. The Classic app was 1000x better than this POS.
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New dogshit is apparently better.
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They obviously werenāt thinking.. or bug testing.. or QA/QC testing.. or anything. JUST ROLL THAT BETA right on out. Iād get fired on the spot for doing this at my job, and it would put peoples lives in jeopardy if I did that.
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You cannot scan from the app anymore, you need to do it on the server.
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roll it back this UI is the least intuitive UI I think possibly ever made.. wtf are they thinking???
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You can. On Roku devices, navigate the Libraries tab and then highlight the library. Press * on the Roku remote and then Rescan.
On other devices (like Apple TV) it similar, but itās accessed via long-press on the library.
