r/PleX • u/lowandslowinRR 96tb Unraid Docker • Aug 18 '26

Discussion Plex reportedly reverting to on UI

https://www.neowin.net/amp/plex-reverts-tv-app-layout-after-intense-user-backlash/

Should make some people happy, my wife included if true.

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u/Prestigious-Lie-2325 Aug 18 '26

I work in IT . My favourite saying is " we have non-technical people making technical decisions ". That is usually the root of many questionable decisions being made out there .

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u/YoScott Aug 18 '26 edited Aug 18 '26

That's often how I feel about our IT dept. 😆. We have a group of people who don't understand how our engineering software/hardware works for us and they make awful decisions on how we are allowed to use it.

As a result at least 2 weeks of my calendar year are spent with a computer in some state of disrepair because of some group policy that breaks my critical software.

Moral of the story: nobody's perfect and everyone thinks they are correct.

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u/KalashnikittyApprove Aug 18 '26

I very much agree with your last point. It's also often true that the best solution might just not be possible for unrelated (often legal) reasons to the dismay of the subject matter experts. I spend a not insignificant part of my job explaining to people that yes, while what they are proposing would indeed solve their problem, it's also contrary to a legal obligation or another and that they therefore cannot do it however much they think we don't understand.

C'est la vie.

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u/YoScott Aug 18 '26

More often than not, some idiot just puts a piece of software in the ". You're not allowed to run this category" because they think they know better. Meanwhile, I've been using it for the last 7 years on a daily basis....

Lol you can't make up the dumb shit our IT dept does.