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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.



> 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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