Plex is overhauling its apps with a redesign and under-the-hood upgrades

Good. Plex on Android is hot garbage

finally is all I can say

they should call this new update jellyfin

Did a quick check of this in the iOS beta and there is no indication of additional enshitification as everyone fears.

The first tab is the home tab and the first few rows are from my library. I don't see any option to hide the random noise that comes after it.

The second tab is the library itself which has the normal rows of various groups, continue watching, recently released, etc.

There is also a tab for live tv, on demand and discover.

I'll probably only use discover because I use the watch list as one of many ways to feed my wanted lists.

There are some punctuation errors in your title. It should read:

Plex is "overhauling" its apps with a redesign and under-the-hood "upgrades"

Those who use Plex to access personal media will find that their libraries are in a dedicated [hidden] tab, while the Watchlist will take up prime real estate in the top navigation section. Plex says it also streamlined the user menu for quick access to things like your profile, friends and watch history.

So they're hiding the entire point of Plex deep in the menu and promoting things that make them money. Enshittification.

Well, Jellyfin is right over there, and it's FOSS too. Consider switching, it's pretty great.

I used plex for years and years with my lifetime license, but a few years ago I felt Plex was way too bloated and swapped to Jellyfin. I don't think about Plex now unless an article mentions it. There's no feature of functionality I notice that's missing, and I have a low tolerance for dealing with troubleshooting when I want to relax.

Thanks for sharing - it’s obviously not filled with all the features yet, like no Picture in Picture, but I like it.

Oh no....

I just want to use my local library in peace

I've liked the sound of Plex forever but after it taking years for the wife to finally be comfortable finding her way around Kodi I couldn't really try it.

Just last week I fancied a tinker & I'd heard Plex has potentially begun to enshittify so I ended up putting Jellyfin on our htpc just to test it. As well as all the usual groups, it was simple to create additional collections for stuff only the wife wants to see rather than things we'll watch together. Within a day or so she's already flying round it so we've pretty much moved to Jellyfin. It doesnt seem to like IR remote control like Kodi does which is a shame & I'm struggling a little with the live TV aspect which was also very straightforward on Kodi but I havent looked too closely into it yet.

Overall very impressed with Jellyfin.

I installed the beta. It’s not that bad. My server was the first thing I saw when I opened it. So it wasn’t pushing the other stuff.

It’s missing a bunch of little things tho, like checking the file properties for an episode or movie.

This overhaul might live up to their pitch. I hope it does.

Anyone that has tried the new version, does plex still make it really difficult to view your library by folder/file rather than by meta data?

I use jellyfin because I can get a folder view.

A bunch of talk about UI and art, nothing about the unified code base. Will it stop sucking on Samsung TVs?

If this turns out as bad as it seems then I'll probably finally be leaving my lifetime Plex pass behind for jellyfin once it rolls out to the Android TV app.

Why do people still use Plex

Link to the Plex blog announcement.

In this thread posted by Jesus himself: EleventhHour having a mental breakdown fighting everybody yo explain how Plex is better than everything else.
I don’t even have a take on this, it’s just funny.

None of the people I've added as friends ever use Plex. Feels stupid to have that in the UX, and I'm not even sharing what I'm watching with them.

Only basic-ass bitches prefer Plex over Kodi or JellyFin.

Friendly reminder that Plex didn't even use SSL until about a month after I wrote a POC exploiting login tokens.

Though I'm not sure why an overhaul is considered a bad thing.

If it's shit I'll jump to Jellyfin