Server Version#: 1.18.4.2171
Player Version#: 4.12.3 and newer?
I had an older web app for a while, but when I upgraded to 4.12.3 there is a newer navigation bar. that is working very quirky on most computers i access it from. the same applies to the app.plex.tv version. It’s become so annoying Im now looking into the process of downgrading.
issue #1
first the menu disappears at random causing me to click on film rather than a library. a button to toggle auto-hide/show would fix this issue. the menu seems too sensitive with the mouse_over.
I personally loved having the nav menu always there as i have 30 libraries to choose from, in the hidden state the menu is completely useless since i don’t see a way to give the libraries custom icons. (they all look the same)
issue #2
the other thing that is less annoying but still a pain is that I add movies every day, i now have extra steps by clicking on “more” then running the scan on the server there. this is mostly extra annoying due to the random auto closing of the menu as described in issue #1
wanting to through my laptop out the window is not feeling i had with plex until now. please help.
if this is not fixed, does someone have ideas on a greasemonkey script we can use to override the nav menu settings?
First and foremost: always use the https://app.plex.tv version of the app.
Also important: tell your web browser to not throw away “cookies and other website data” from plex.tv when you close it.
click on the hamburger ≡ icon to ‘nail’ the sidebar into place
using the app.plex.tv app is less than desirable. i rather keep traffic direct to my server over vpn rather then going to external servers minimally.
clicking on the hamburger to lock seems to have worked. thanks!!!
I use all my libraries all the time. i have over 100,000 titles.
would be nice if the “full server scan” was accessible right from the nav menu like it used to be.
less annoying now that the nav is nailed.
Using this URL doesn’t change anything about the data flow. It just loads the web app into the browser. When this is finished, anything that happens from then on is exactly the same.
given the choice i would rather have 0 data be reaching out to an external server. it already bugs me that my own libraries become unavailable every time the pex website goes down. or if my isp goes down. or if there is a google dns issue. I have been a life time user for a while so while rare i have encountered all of those issues many times.
Personally, I find it far more sensible to just update those libraries which have new media in them. Particularly when you have a rather large music library.
And that action is available
i spend 4-6ish hours everyday doing maintenance on a film archive.
it was convenient to just run it all since it usually meant i touch most of my libraries. it’s really a minor thing to switch to the “more” menu to run it. was just nicer that the server used to be pinned on the nav menu and now it cant be. I do it manually rather than by schedule to see if any major things stick out, allowing me to correct issues fast before anyone else sees them. the larger the database/labor the more these minor time savers stick out.
