Incredibly disappointed in Plex for doing this, so much so that this is the first time I’ve actually felt the need to voice my displeasure and make a post. I really hope that Plex reverts this decision. Watch Together may not be my most used feature, but I do consider it quite important.
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What a stupid decision. How am I supposed to explain to dozens of users that they won’t be able to watch anything together anymore? This will push people away from using my server.
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I don’t want a “new experience” that rips out core features. Feels like a good reason to switch to an open source product or project.
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I am very disappointed in the removal of this feature. We use this feature very frequently.
We previously used a Jellyfin instance, but switched to Plex due to better Client support and a better Watch Together experience. Jellyfin’s Synchplay does not even come close to Plex’s implementation. A big reason for this is the cross-client support.
Using Watch Together from an AppleTV or even the native macOS/Windows app is a real use case, especially since the apps are significantly more reliable than the web app.
Please reconsider this decision. Even just having an option to keep using the old versions of the clients with Watch Together support - until the new clients support it - would be a viable solution.
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Yeah a new app in the various app stores that we could opt into instead of removal of the existing more functional app.
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Dont think ive ever posted on this forum, but I wanted to post just to say removing this feature is dumb, this is a useful feature for my friends and I. Plex Devs you should reconsider this decision.
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Very poor decison. Me and my friends use this feature DAILY. From using this to not at all will be hard cut. Trying to find a way to best block the auto update of the client from our firewalls/routers so that I don’t loose it. Won’t recommend Plex to any of my friends after that. Thats for sure.
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I’m normally not the type to make forum posts or replies but watch together is the most important feature for me and the main reason why I use Plex. My family is all across the US and watch together is one of the major ways we stay connected. I understand the complexities of a new platform but a complete lack of an alternative for a feature identified as widely appreciated is a complete slap in the face to anyone and everyone who has ever interacted with the feature. I will be exploring alternatives solely because of this change and will advocate to all friends family and every idle bystander on the street that Plex does not value their customer base.
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When it comes down to it, the major reason for Plex making these changes is $$$$…there isn’t really anything wrong with the current app - from what I understand they mainly want to streamline their development across clients. Well, that is really a $$$$ issue more than anything else.
I haven’t seen anything in the new app that is really better than the current app, except for maybe a few nicer looking things (that could be easily added to the existing app).
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Added another topic in the new experience app. Please don't release this as the same app. Don't go Sonos on us
This topic is one spot but I think we need to make our voices heard around the forum. It’s not just watch together being lost it’s a lot of features based on their docs.
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Which makes its seem like a management issue they wanted to push out the new app experience without waiting for it to reach feature parity
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Please let me know if you figure out how to block their updates.
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Boo! This is not okay, Plex. Please do not degrade one of your best features. It has helped keep my wife from divorcing me, so it would mean a lot personally.
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I will add a comment with a link here too!
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Terrible decision by Plex. I’ve been using this feature daily and to rip it away is beyond frustrating.
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Well they haven’t forced the new app on us yet fortunately (and it has a long way to go), but we really haven’t gotten any kind of response on feature parity of the old vs new app. Music isn’t apparently going to be part of the new app (and Plexamp isn’t available for Apple TV) - that also means music videos aren’t going to be tied in the same way either.
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This is absolutely worst decision I’ve seen from Plex so far. Why worsen your product in the name of improving?
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This was the one and only reason why I moved to Plex a while back. Well that is sad, but I am glad there are some alternatives or that I can go back to Discord (although it is not with the same feature parity as Plex and I will have to re-teach my friends)
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Truly terrible. We use Watch Together for a weekly movie club, and also just when we’re watching a movie as a family and someone wants to take a shower but continue watching… but to me the best Watch Together memory I have was watching TV and movies with my wife when she was in hospital and unable to have visitors. I didn’t know if she would make it out alive, things were touch and go for a while.
But the key thing is that 99% of Plex users are senior citizens who watch ad-supported movies on their nursing home Rokus and don’t even know what Plex is. So really any feature that any local user uses cannot be justified from a rational business case. No matter how many people post in the forum, the MBAs running the company will just respond to note that the users on this forum represent 0.00000001% of their users and they have no reason to care.
Awful.
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Problem is that Plex wouldn’t have ANY of their users if is wasn’t for us that host media servers.
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