> piece of garbage
That’s pushing it. You’re entitled to dislike that it’s proprietary, but Plex works great. You can like an alternative better without shitting on Plex for no reason
That’s pushing it. You’re entitled to dislike that it’s proprietary, but Plex works great. You can like an alternative better without shitting on Plex for 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 :)
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 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.
I thought the reason was obvious (it's the first word of first sentence of the parent comment)
Have you not noticed the topic you are commenting on? It's pretty clear why Plex is now unusable for a significant number of users. Other commenters likened Plex to a honeypot. How did you fail to be aware of that fact?
But it is a company and I am glad that there is serious competition from Jellyfin. It isn't a publicly traded company, so pressure from an open source product can push it to be better and not necessarily turn it in to a money grab that makes the product shit. They've made some missteps the community hasn't liked, but they have also had improvements as well.
This kind of black/white thinking is harmful. Plex "just works" for the family I share it with, I have zero interest in being 24/7 tech support so I don't use things like Jellyfin. If this UI/UX improves enough then I might consider it but everyone I've shared my Plex with has been able to use it without peppering me with 100 questions. I seriously doubt the same would be true for Jellyfin.
Xsteve, tvheadend and stream River are options