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> no reason 1) The UI is trash, bloated and unreliable. 2) The UI regularly tries to convince me to look at their junk TV/movie sales pages. 3) The UI doesn'

> no reason 1) The UI is trash, bloated and unreliable. 2) The UI regularly tries to convince me to look at their junk TV/movie sales pages. 3) The UI doesn't provide proper feedback during the media library tagging/discovery process. 4) Oh yeah even though it's hosted in my network only using resources in my network, it feels the need to call home regularly. Sorry, you seemed confused, and I'm not the person you're replying to, but I thought I'd help you out anyway. This list isn't comprehensive, but it should at least help you understand people might actually be shitting on Plex for actual reasons that exist :)

tmpX7dMeXU 3y ago
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- thefurdrake 3y ago
  Snarky? Absolutely. Vitriolic? Please, spare me. You might be upset that I chose to convey my data in a tone you dislike, but don't pretend my reasons aren't valid. Also, practice what you preach-- community guidelines say to flag and move on if you find objectionable behavior. It's telling that you chose to avoid addressing the content of what I said in favor of shifting focus to tone.
- rewmie 3y ago
  > This a similarly needlessly vitriolic and snarky comment. You're the same sock puppet account who posted the following message: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37523888 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37523888
  - thefurdrake 3y ago
    ... This really should have been obvious to me before replying to him, but I didn't check the post history first. Maybe I should start doing that for such blatantly-obvious poor-faith throwaways.
thiht 3y ago
Doesn’t help. I disagree on 1, I actually like Plex UI and it mostly works fine for me. It’s especially useful in that I have official apps everywhere (tv, smartphone, laptop), I can chromecast, and I can download movies locally on my phone. All that reliably. For 2, it’s just a tab you can hide no? I think I had that the first time I used Plex, but I’ve not seen that in months… 3 is true, the discovery process is too opaque, especially when it doesn’t find one of your files. 4 is not a UI complaint but a technical complaint. None of that makes it garbage.
- thefurdrake 3y ago
  > I disagree on 1 I disagree with your disagreement. Your statement has achieved nothing as it doesn't address that it is a frustration users have (I'm not the only one) that might incline someone to thinking a product is garbage; "I disagree" is a moot point, as the behavior discussed influences user experience and opinion. I don't know how to make that more clear. > For 2, it’s just a tab you can hide no? What's your point? I don't want it. I don't want to see it. It's advertising garbage to me. I will choose products that don't do that and rank products that do as closer to garbage than products that don't. > 3 is true It's also essential to the most important feature of Plex: Parse my fucking media and let me search and view it. It is core functionality and it's garbage. > 4 is not a UI complaint but a technical complaint. I wasn't aware we were being restricted to complaining just about the UI of Plex. Can you show me where this goalpost was established? I must have missed it. As Plex is a self-hosted application, non-UI behavior is relevant to the user experience. This includes the setup and operational process.

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thefurdrake 3y ago
Snarky? Absolutely. Vitriolic? Please, spare me. You might be upset that I chose to convey my data in a tone you dislike, but don't pretend my reasons aren't valid. Also, practice what you preach-- community guidelines say to flag and move on if you find objectionable behavior. It's telling that you chose to avoid addressing the content of what I said in favor of shifting focus to tone.
rewmie 3y ago
> This a similarly needlessly vitriolic and snarky comment. You're the same sock puppet account who posted the following message: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37523888 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37523888
- thefurdrake 3y ago
  ... This really should have been obvious to me before replying to him, but I didn't check the post history first. Maybe I should start doing that for such blatantly-obvious poor-faith throwaways.

thiht 3y ago

Doesn’t help. I disagree on 1, I actually like Plex UI and it mostly works fine for me. It’s especially useful in that I have official apps everywhere (tv, smartphone, laptop), I can chromecast, and I can download movies locally on my phone. All that reliably. For 2, it’s just a tab you can hide no? I think I had that the first time I used Plex, but I’ve not seen that in months… 3 is true, the discovery process is too opaque, especially when it doesn’t find one of your files. 4 is not a UI complaint but a technical complaint. None of that makes it garbage.

thefurdrake 3y ago
> I disagree on 1 I disagree with your disagreement. Your statement has achieved nothing as it doesn't address that it is a frustration users have (I'm not the only one) that might incline someone to thinking a product is garbage; "I disagree" is a moot point, as the behavior discussed influences user experience and opinion. I don't know how to make that more clear. > For 2, it’s just a tab you can hide no? What's your point? I don't want it. I don't want to see it. It's advertising garbage to me. I will choose products that don't do that and rank products that do as closer to garbage than products that don't. > 3 is true It's also essential to the most important feature of Plex: Parse my fucking media and let me search and view it. It is core functionality and it's garbage. > 4 is not a UI complaint but a technical complaint. I wasn't aware we were being restricted to complaining just about the UI of Plex. Can you show me where this goalpost was established? I must have missed it. As Plex is a self-hosted application, non-UI behavior is relevant to the user experience. This includes the setup and operational process.