God I've been on the fence of leaving Plex for a while. I was just thinking this week "what features have they actually delivered in the last 2 years?"

None. I couldn't think of any. Skip Credits was the last one, and that was just over 2 years ago, and it was a pro only feature. Everything else has been for their streaming, and now not only have they not delivered anything of value but the last two announcements are removing functionality. This and the Tidal integrations are both dead.

So I set up jellyfin again, a process that last time I was annoyed with, and found that the UI has gotten much better, and it's pretty much at feature parity now.

I'm not switching today, but I am doing a full trial run. Not because I want to, but because what is keeping me on Plex?

-a 10+ year server admin and Plex pro owner

[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Did they ever get it functional? I tried it a few times early on and it was terrible.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

I use it a lot, it's has its glitches but it's certainly been functional, at least for me lol

[–] brenstar@programming.dev 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Damn, this is something I use all the time. Does Jellyfin have anything similar?

[–] jonathan@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yes, but not in most clients.

[–] MajesticElevator@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yup

It’s a bit bugged (when moving (forwarding or rewinding) it bugs and it is needed to press pause/resume a couple of times), but apart from that, no sync issues (with the option to sync enabled (disabled by default))

I wish someone would fix this code but the author of this code apparently left and no one knows how to fix it

[–] necromancyr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Serious question - what's your reason for using? I can understand long distance relationship, but outside of that I don't get this as anything more than an edge case feature (post-COVID).

Genuinely curious - anykind of feature removal sucks, but just wondering how people use this now.

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

My wife has a friend that moved away a few years ago. We set aside one day a month to watch really bad movies, MST3K style, with them online. This feature keeps us in sync so that we are watching the same thing at the same time. Without it, that becomes a lot harder, especially when you throw in things like pausing for bathroom breaks.

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 3 points 3 months ago

I know a truck driver who watches stuff with his family occasionally using a feature like this (don't know if it's Plex or some similar offering elsewhere).

[–] brenstar@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

Oh I have friends and family littered all over the country that I keep in regular contact with. We will do watch parties for series as new episodes air, or just decide to watch something together on a whim.

If it's just me and one other person, we may hop on a video call and talk about it as it plays.

It's just kind of nice having everyone be on the same page.

[–] jonathan@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago

Similar to long distance, I used it with my wife while I was COVID isolating.

[–] MajesticElevator@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

Nice when watching this with friends that are somewhere else, or even when someone is in another room and you only have small screens so it’s better to have only 1 person in front of each. (+ call at the same time to react etc..)

I mean there are many uses for this… a lot of people screen share themselves watching movies or series, even videos

[–] MajesticElevator@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

It sucks :( it was really nice - a must have

[–] Pregnenolone@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I imagine there are Watch Together plugins available for Plex that should fill this space pretty easily.

[–] anytimesoon@feddit.uk 2 points 3 months ago

Does Plex still offer plug ins?