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Is the Plex home screen still shoddy as fuck? They suddenly shoved my hosted media into a random sidebar menu and started pushing their "free" content on homepa

Is the Plex home screen still shoddy as fuck? They suddenly shoved my hosted media into a random sidebar menu and started pushing their "free" content on homepage and also started doing purchases and rentals, so is it just getting close to being another Netflix/Hulu? Can't comment on Music, but JellyFin on my Dedicated Server has been very stable. It has indexed a large collection of movies and shows, makes decent recommendations, and tracks me well across devices. We use Infuse for iOS, Jellyfin on the Web and Android very frequently and we only very rarely found issues.

opless 3y ago
You can unpin the value add stuff from the sidebar in Plex.
- princevegeta89 3y ago
  Will it come back after a few updates though?
  - opless 3y ago
    Perhaps, but once it's set for a client it seems to persist.
rolobio 3y ago
My Plex app on Apple TV keeps adding their Discover tab to my home page. Keeps recommending nsfw content to my kids. Extremely frustrating because I have unpinned the tab a dozen times. I will move away from Plex once Jellyfin is good enough.
res0nat0r 3y ago
Been running plex in docker from my Synology nas for a couple of years now and has been working great. I have a large library of stuff to index too. The homepage UI on the web,phone,iPad and TV app have been fine for me.
BeetleB 3y ago
> They suddenly shoved my hosted media into a random sidebar menu and started pushing their "free" content on homepage and also started doing purchases and rentals, so is it just getting close to being another Netflix/Hulu? The main annoyance was done once, and you can just go to the settings and disable it. Every once in a while they make minor changes that seem to promote their services, but they're very ignorable. I've only had to go to the settings once to disable/hide their annoyances. I never quite understood the hostility towards them on this. I suppose if you insist on viewing Plex as solely for playing your own content, sure. But ever since I signed up over 5 years ago (before the streaming services), I knew quite well that I was signing up for a service and that I am not in control. I don't see people getting anywhere near as upset at Netflix as they are with Plex. As much as they may have deprioritized local streaming - it's not at all dead. They continue to add features to it.

opless 3y ago

You can unpin the value add stuff from the sidebar in Plex.

princevegeta89 3y ago
Will it come back after a few updates though?
- opless 3y ago
  Perhaps, but once it's set for a client it seems to persist.

rolobio 3y ago

My Plex app on Apple TV keeps adding their Discover tab to my home page. Keeps recommending nsfw content to my kids. Extremely frustrating because I have unpinned the tab a dozen times. I will move away from Plex once Jellyfin is good enough.

res0nat0r 3y ago

Been running plex in docker from my Synology nas for a couple of years now and has been working great. I have a large library of stuff to index too. The homepage UI on the web,phone,iPad and TV app have been fine for me.

BeetleB 3y ago

> They suddenly shoved my hosted media into a random sidebar menu and started pushing their "free" content on homepage and also started doing purchases and rentals, so is it just getting close to being another Netflix/Hulu? The main annoyance was done once, and you can just go to the settings and disable it. Every once in a while they make minor changes that seem to promote their services, but they're very ignorable. I've only had to go to the settings once to disable/hide their annoyances. I never quite understood the hostility towards them on this. I suppose if you insist on viewing Plex as solely for playing your own content, sure. But ever since I signed up over 5 years ago (before the streaming services), I knew quite well that I was signing up for a service and that I am not in control. I don't see people getting anywhere near as upset at Netflix as they are with Plex. As much as they may have deprioritized local streaming - it's not at all dead. They continue to add features to it.