I’ve been a Plex Pass lifetime subscriber since the very beginning of Plex, I’ve also been in a relationship that’s often long distance and this feature has been one of the most consistent experiences for me and my partner.
What do you people need to make this work? Gawd damn beat a monthly fee out of me again if you must.
Hire me if you can’t make it work and I’ll figure this ■■■■ out for you. Don’t just kill an existing feature that’s INSANE.
I can’t even count how many people I’ve told about Plex over the many years I’ve been here. And I just can’t do that anymore if that’s the direction this whole thing is going to be taken in. What used to be a smart, cost-effective, simple and pleasant tool to use seems to be going out of its way to find weird hoops to jump through for itself, leaving user experience behind along the way. It’s pretty disappointing.
[In 2020,] At the request of a fan named Joe, Plex Labs quickly put in some long hours creating a way for the world to watch together when circumstances kept us apart. It wasn’t perfect, but this experimental feature created human connection in a time when we needed it most…
Now, five years later, we are nearing the official release of our new Plex experience that will bring us closer together than ever before. We’ve spent two years rewriting our apps from the ground up to boost our development speed, which should enable us to bring new features to you more efficiently, across more platforms, with much higher quality than ever before.
So the official answer is that the new Plex is that the best way to bring people together is to get rid of the feature that brings people together and replace it with the universally beloved new Plex Experience application.
It’s a little bit like the time that Etsy, a public benefit company, explained that the best way they could serve the public benefit was to no longer be a public benefit company, because that would serve the public benefit better.
On the one hand, it’s a little hard to believe a human being could have so little dignity as to write something like the above-quoted text. On the other hand, since the text was written after 2022, we can’t preclude the possibility that a human being didn’t write the text at all, and instead it was just a slop operator prompting an AI.
