This is the full email I sent to keith@plex.tv via email.
February 26 2025,
ATTN: Keith Valory
This has to be the stupidest decision that Plex has made. I am a life time member
and I have been for many years. If Plex removes the watch together feature then I am done!
https://support.plex.tv/articles/watch-together/
I will switch to Jellyfin at this point and abandon plex all together.
Go look at my account under this email address darkshad9999@gmail.com
I have been a Lifetime member before even COVID hit.
2019-09-15 is when I got my lifetime membership I have been a LONG
time member September 15 2019.
This has to be the stupidest thing that Plex has ever done and this will
kill your media platform.
This is used constantly by me as I have friends down in the USA and
I am in Canada and we watch movies together. I run the movie server
here as I have a technical I.T. background.
The watch together feature is widely used by me and clearly other people
as well. check out Reddit as well there is a thread there as well along with
several on your own forums plex.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/1iy0n38/plex_is_killing_watch_together_feature/
https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1iy1qz9/plex_removes_watch_together_from_app_going/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/1iyad4d/since_plex_is_killing_watch_together_what_are/
I have run a plex media server for years now on a Debian Operating System
and it works very well and the watch together is one of the features I love.
People are telling you they still use the watch together feature and
that is still widely used by people. Plex you need to listen to your customer
base and keep the watch together feature!
If you remove the watch together feature then I am done with plex and
I will switch. This has to be the most bonehead decision plex as ever
made. This will kill the plex media server if you remove the watch together
feature you will lose your customer base!
You need to listen to your long time customers like me and keep the
Plex Watch Together feature! It is still widely used! Fix it or do whatever
you have to do to it to make it work but keep the watch together feature!
Look you are talking to a trained I.T. professional myself I am a trained network
admin myself. Find a way to keep the plex watch together feature.
Clearly i am not the only one upset about this by looking at your own forums.
you need to reverse this decision effective immediately before you do permanent
damage to the Plex name.
Also sent a message via your contact form as well
https://www.plex.tv/contact/?cjdata=MXxOfDB8WXww&AID=13279074&PID=3607085&SID=UUhtgUeUpU2010620&utm_source=CJ&utm_medium=Affiliate&utm_campaign=Valnet+Inc.&utm_content=plex.tv&cjevent=9f209618f4ad11ef81d801590a1eba23
I am telling you now that you are seriously ticking off a large percentage of your
user base right now. That is not a good thing this decision could very well be the
death of the Plex Media Server.
Jamie Baillie (she / her)
