You know that’s not how software development works right?
Did you ever consider that maybe there’s people paying for a plexpass that don’t want development fixing a panasonic smart TV app or for a NAS they don’t use?
Well aware that’s not how software development works. Software developers take tasks off a JIRA board.
Product managers put tasks on a JIRA board though, and have a roadmap for the products development.
I’m just venting my frustration that the products development doesn’t appear to be aligned with what most of its customers want - which I don’t think I’m being outragous in suggesting might be working software.
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Sure, I wish it was less buggy too, but the economics just won’t match up, they’d have to raise prices considerably.
Right now a plex pass is about what, a 1/3 of the price of a Netflix subscription? How many devices etc do people expect them to support? Of course they’re going to do news, podcasts, video, etc and find other revenue sources.
Im fine with it, but the current list of content is super small and frankly not very good.
More shows need to be added, more content is needed
I expect them to support the devices they advertise as supporting - I don’t think this is unreasonable at all.
I also don’t expect them to harvest my personal data and sell it on - or to contort the interface of what I originally paid for to funnel people into this. The plex pass is already massively over priced for something that relies on open source software, and should require no hosting. From what I can tell I’m currently paying to make this application less useful to me - so yes, I’m frustrated.
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You are making the assumption of what most customers want. The people on this forum is not most customers. The power users/plex pass users who actually have a media server is low overall. I have a feeling most plex users either get content shared with them or use Netflix/Amazon. Plex is trying to expand and be useful for normal users not just local content ones. Look at how many of us used to manage our own music and now that number has gone down due to proper music streaming ways. Plex provides statistics that show that the people posting on these forums are not the majority (plugins 3%). I think a lot of these lower numbers are because the power users turn off the statistics sending which really in the end screw themselves over. As far as I am concerned, the more Plex can add into Plex and make it so that a users does not have to exit plex and go to a separate app/home screen of device the better.
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So - I might be confused - but Plex is a Personal Media Server - isn’t it???
A server - for personal media?
I’ve no problem if the company wants to create a different product - like, ‘Interwebs Media Portal’ - but the product I signed up for was ‘Personal Media Server’.
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Quite on point… in my local circle of ppl using plex…
2 run servers with plex accounts
15 are pure client accounts
Music also on point… I use spotify/airsonic now but that’s more due to my hate for last.fm and their fun way of “I know you meant this artist but here’s a nagging poster art to ruin everything anyway cause we’re elitists.”
My optimistic dream is plex lands some agreement with Netflix so it’s one bigfront end
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Like their other offerings, the admin of the system can not turn off these features for all clients connected to their servers. More and more control slowly being chipped away.
Just another marketing list bullet point with no real substance worth mentioning at this point.
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Because those new features are being offered to users. It does not use the admin of the system bandwidth so why would he/she be able to turn it off for others users?
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No it is not. It used to be only a personal media server. Plex has been branching out and adding new features (News, podcasts, this web shows) so that it is not only a personal media server. You can become a plex pass users and have 0 personal media servers.
So this is my problem - who would have 0 media servers??? Non of these new features are remotely comparable to other platforms. For users, they appear to rely on the media servers being shared with friends and relatives to provide virtual footfall. And the guff which is now inserted into that experience is actually devaluing the service.
I understand Plex is a company with big ambitions, but really - this is not a direction which will pay off. The people hosting the media servers will just switch to Emby, or something that actually does what they want.
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Disabled - dont need it or News.
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Checked the offering, thought about Plex’s businessmodel, and disabled it. Ill stick to my Youtube channels, I echo the opinion that Plex should focus more on core features, and not include features that other platforms already excel at.
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Yep, completely agree!
Disabled, just the same as news and podcasts. I guess some people might like these new ‘features’, but not wanted or needed by me.
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Disabled. Other more robust options to watch internet content. I wish they would stick to core features, or native Trakt integration…
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What “More robust” option do you use to watch your internet content from a central location?
I only watch Internet Content from a few providers and they all offer their own apps that are absolutely fine and more feature rich then this option, (for example Giant Bomb content, TwiT content)I don’t need to centrally watch all these. from once place.
My overall feeling on this is “meh”. As it stands currently I won’t be using this feature as it doesn’t really offer any content I’m interested in.
Similarly I don’t use Podcasts (although I would like to) because it’s lacking basic features. I don’t use News (although I would like to) because it never seems to offer anything relevant for me and I don’t want to put the effort in training it.
I am onboard with the vision though, which I think is to ultimately provide a single frontend for all of the media that I consume, local and online. There’s so much fragmentation it can be difficult to remember where a given show is, so if that’s the direction Plex are heading I guess this is a necessary step on that journey.
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