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Plex is overhauling its apps with a redesign and under-the-hood upgrades (www.engadget.com)

submitted 13 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 13 hours ago

A bunch of talk about UI and art, nothing about the unified code base. Will it stop sucking on Samsung TVs?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Link to the Plex blog announcement.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 13 hours ago

And a link to the Plex forum post.

What about TV and big-screen devices?

The initial preview release is focused on the mobile experience for users. We plan to share a similarly updated TV experience soon. Stay tuned!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

None of the people I've added as friends ever use Plex. Feels stupid to have that in the UX, and I'm not even sharing what I'm watching with them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

I feel you. I have close to 30 friends on plex, but only like 5 people use it regularly, another 4 sporadically ... and most others either have never watched anything or just like seconds (probably just testing if it worked).

It's not the easiest platform to adopt, especially if you just have an account to connect to a friends library and don't know how to do the inital setup (hiding all the free crap). Most of my regular viewers are family members ... and I setup their homescreen for them.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

If this turns out as bad as it seems then I'll probably finally be leaving my lifetime Plex pass behind for jellyfin once it rolls out to the Android TV app.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

as bad as it seems

Based on anything in particular? General consensus seems pretty positive from folks who have tried it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Because it's continuing the trend of focusing on live free channel streaming, finding things to watch on other streaming services, social media-esque interactions with other users, and other shit I don't care about.

I just want something that will stream my media from my NAS to whatever I'm trying to watch it on, and do it well.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

Friendly reminder that Plex didn't even use SSL until about a month after I wrote a POC exploiting login tokens.