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Plex is rolling out its big app redesign (www.theverge.com)

submitted 2 days ago by melp@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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Following months of testing, Plex has started to roll out its redesigned mobile app to Android and iOS devices, and it will arrive to everyone within the next week. The new app comes with an updated navigation system that should make it easier to access different parts of the app and find content to watch, along with a dedicated tab for centralized media libraries.

It also has a button in the top-right corner of the screen for your Watchlist and more artwork across detail pages for shows and movies, as well as cast and crew profiles. In a post on the Plex forum, the company outlines a ton of improvements it has made to the app since the preview, including faster load times and scrolling, the addition of a sleep timer, and picture-in-picture support.

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[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh wow. That is... Bad. And the issue has gone unaddressed for 4 years now?

[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Would seem so. The project is open source, and nobody is getting paid. So the lack of update makes sense to some extent.

As cool as it is.. and as much as I want to make plex shove it completely. Jellyfin just isn't ready for prime-time.

I run both... Jellyfin isn't allowed to talk outside of my network at all, and I can access it over my personal VPN... But Plex is where all my users are because anything else would just be too annoying to maintain.

[–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Holy shit. Thanks. I actually had it exposed as I wanted some of my Plex users to basically beta test my Hardware acceleration config on Jellyfin (another reason why I won't switch anytime soon) but I just shut that thing down and won't touch it until I absolutely have to