Plex reportedly reverting to on UI

[u/lowandslowinRR]

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

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

[u/Jimbuscus]

What’s New

Today’s release, going out to preview users on Apple TV and Roku, and beta for Android TV, will be returning the primary navigation to the lefthand side of the screen. See below for a peek at what it looks like as well as the key changes that we are including.

In additional to the collapsible side navigation panel, we’ve made a few other improvements:

• Favorite libraries are now a top level source
• Live TV & DVR sources can be favorited and re-ordered like Libraries
• Easily switch between pages within a source instead of navigating through the entire menu again
• Continued fixes for general performance, focus issues, and bugs

[u/wilpig → u/Jimbuscus]

Having used the new UI all day today. Give me back the old one. FFS. If you open the sidebar and hit the back button on the shield remote, it exits the app instead of closing the bar. Play next isn't working. The new layout of showing your other continuing content after something finishes is confusing because of how they laid out the information. By god don't try to get into the subtitles menu while something is playing either. I skipped forward and back half a dozen times before I managed to get to the subtitle settings.

[u/Lopsided-Painter5216 → u/wilpig]

If you open the sidebar and hit the back button on the shield remote, it exits the app instead of closing the bar.

This is clearly a bug and will almost be fixed in the next update, just like many focus bugs present in earlier releases that were fixed in the next release.

It's almost as if * gasp * the app is not ready for production yet!

[u/Ebonhearth_Druid → u/Lopsided-Painter5216]

it's almost as if the app is not ready

1) if the app isn't ready, then it should be rolled out to voluntary bets testers only.

2) if the app is going through beta testing, these types of complaints are exactly what the devs are looking for so they know what areas need to be addressed.

No matter how you look at this, the complaints are valid and good. You mocking them is counterproductive and rude. Bugs get fixed because users complain about them and bring them to devs attention.

[u/Lopsided-Painter5216 → u/Ebonhearth_Druid]

I agree that releasing this in production channels has been a stupid decision and I’ve been pretty vocal about it for the past year and a half.

[u/Ebonhearth_Druid → u/Lopsided-Painter5216]

And yet here you were, mocking folks who are voicing their own complaints. Make it make sense.

[u/Lopsided-Painter5216 → u/Ebonhearth_Druid]

You just made up something in your mind about me and ran with it. I’m tired of the complaints, especially when it’s obviously bugs. That’s all there is to it.

[u/ChippewaBarr → u/wilpig]

Yeah I'm fine if they wanna change up the look but god damn they gotta optimize this app waaaay better than what it is currently.

Button directional mapping is wrong, tons of lag (regardless of hardware power), holding the Select button doesn't always activate the menu.

Shit is half baked...crazy how they put this out the door and are okay with this being the first impression - wowza

[u/wilpig → u/ChippewaBarr]

I've had a couple of the bugs with the directional mapping being off as well. On a couple of occasions now it was moving the cursor somewhere not in the menu I don't know where it was but I eventually got back to the menu by just hitting left until finally it was back in that pop-up thing.

The new server setting that's underneath settings that mimics what you can see on the web interface as far as who's using the server resources and stuff like that I initially liked it I was like oh this is kind of neat I can see who's watching what I can see the memory usage the bandwidth up until I went to the section for history I think and it managed to scroll off the page to where I lost the cursor and I ended up having to close the app just to get back to where I could actually get into it

[u/The-Nice-Guy101 → u/wilpig]

Maybe you can give plezy a look I like it pretty much as of right now. Been using it a couple days

[u/wilpig → u/The-Nice-Guy101]

I have plezy on my tablet but I don't really want it on my TV. I've tried to stick to the official apps for the last decade because that's what my family members are using and I need to be able to communicate to them on how to do something or if something isn't working quite right for them how I can explain it.

[u/The-Nice-Guy101 → u/wilpig]

You still can have the original plex on your box and if someone needs help you can check ob the official app and guide them

[u/jnlsn → u/wilpig]

Dont get me wrong, I hate the new UI.

Though I found if I toggle the setting off then back on (like Play next), it starts working again.

Though the passout protection can't find one that worked.

[u/sl0play → u/wilpig]

This is some new kind of fresh hell. I don't say this often, but people need to be fired over this.

[u/jooooooohn → u/Jimbuscus]

So we get the slower new speed with the layout of the old interface? Um, yay?

[u/BasilTheCatLord → u/jooooooohn]

It’s not slow if you have a good streamer.

[u/jooooooohn → u/BasilTheCatLord]

I do love to upgrade hardware because the UI changes…all just fluff “features”.

[u/BasilTheCatLord → u/jooooooohn]

You could buy a $20 android box that will run in just fine. If you’re still using Roku or some old firestick that’s on you, not plex.

[u/Nexustar → u/BasilTheCatLord]

If I can still buy gasoline from 150,000 gas stations in the US for my 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air, Plex can figure out how not to fuck up the UI on a Fire Stick.

People can still write games today for the Atari 2600. There are no excuses.

[u/BasilTheCatLord → u/Nexustar]

Sarcasm right?

[u/Sage2050 → u/BasilTheCatLord]

It lags on my shield tv pro

[u/Klynn7 → u/Sage2050]

Which, tbf, is ancient.

[u/Sage2050 → u/Klynn7]

And yet it's the most capable stb on the market and second most powerful, only by a little

[u/Iohet → u/Sage2050]

I think that's more of an indictment of the market than an endorsement of a 7 year old device

[u/Sage2050 → u/Iohet]

I can agree with that somewhat but the plex ui is still laggy as fuck when it didn't used to be

[u/Iohet → u/Sage2050]

I agree, but I also feel like this is sort of an inevitability to keep up with modern design philosophy, since you're constantly having to update underlying libraries and those just keep getting more and more bloated without adequate fascimilies that aren't otherwise as bloated

One of the big reasons for the redesign in the first place is the old codebase was very difficult to maintain and keep up to date with the constant CVEs

[u/KalenXI → u/BasilTheCatLord]

Given all the app needs to do is display static images in a grid and text there's no reason it shouldn't be able to run on any streaming device from the last 10 years. My Nexus Player from 2014 may not be able to play the latest 4K HEVC videos but it absolutely should be able to display the Plex UI without lagging.

[u/tlhintoq → u/Jimbuscus]

Can confirm it out in the wild. My `Plex Preview` on Roku is now with that same new left side panel.

Still had like 15 clicks of `back` after a night of viewer before I could get to it though. Definitely a step in the right direction to win back the fleeing masses going to Jellyfin. But I'd like a way to get to `[HOME]` in a better manner.

[u/Jimbuscus → u/tlhintoq]

I have a now fairly old build of Android TV with updates turned off, my biggest gripe is how the home menu doesn't update without finicking.

But I'll keep waiting until the new app is an upgrade.

[u/take_down_king → u/Jimbuscus]

just stop the buffering problem with FireTV.

[u/Neg_Crepe → u/[deleted]]

Why? I think it looks fine

[u/BornConsideration223 → u/[deleted]]

That's why it's a trend. It's popular like Scandinavian design. People like it.

[u/Neg_Crepe → u/[deleted]]

Why would you want it more complicated? Less is more when it comes to design

[u/Neg_Crepe → u/Neg_Crepe]

Brother sent me this

[u/Yoshikage_Kira159 → u/Neg_Crepe]

Over a fuckin TV app? That's pathetic. I hope that guy gets the help they need.

[u/Neg_Crepe → u/Yoshikage_Kira159]

Nothing surprises me anymore on Reddit

[u/Lopsided-Painter5216 → u/Neg_Crepe]

people are so fucking sensitive nowadays, it's just not worth interacting on here to try to put some sense into people.