My biggest beef with Plex is that they've pivoted away from being a media server first and are trying to change into a streaming platform first, and because managers inside the company have to show KPI, they're stuffing the streaming buttons and sections and recommendations in everywhere.

Really frustrating because the media server experience is still by far the best.

It really needs to have a "classic" toggle where all the streaming crap is disabled.

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pigpag 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

I have frozen both my Plex server and app versions to avoid turning them into a streaming app with outdated contents. Ever since they got rid of Camera Upload function it's been going downhill function-wise.

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soggybread 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Honestly, this is why I stopped using plex. I set up and ran my own server because I wanted to see the stuff I have, mostly digitized family VHS and then suddenly I'm finding movies and shows on my server that I didn't put there.

	▲	unixhero 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		To be fair you had to disable those feeds and then the content would not appear. User hostile move nonetheless.

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_superposition_ 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The only good thing about this in my setup is I can add shows/movies to my watchlist from their advertisements and it gets picked up by my arr stack.

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hydrogen7800 2 days ago | parent [-]

Wow, you can do this? At the risk of further complicating my arr stack, which I barely had the wherewithal to get running in the first place, how does that work?

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mvanbaak a day ago | parent [-]

The arr programs have 'plex watchlist' under the connect settings

	▲	_superposition_ a day ago \| parent [-]
		I would recommend listarr as well. Woke up to "disclosure day" this morning without even asking.

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baggachipz 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> It really needs to have a "classic" toggle where all the [enshittified] crap is disabled.

This can apply to almost any modern application.