All the News That’s Fit to Plex

Am I the only one who wants Plex to just be Plex, i.e. a media server for what I have stored locally? All of these new features make me think Plex is going in the direction of a cloud-only service and may drop local storage support down the line.

I lost faith in Plex when I upgraded my server about a year ago and after testing, etc, I deleted the old container (run it in docker). I didn&#x27;t find out until a few days later that FF&#x2F;REW was broken. At that point I didn&#x27;t have the old release around. Went to the forum and found I wasn&#x27;t the only one. Problem was, they had just moved to 1.0 and they removed <i>all</i> previous versions from their servers. I begged to get an older one, and after a week or two I got it from another forum user. During that 2 weeks, though, FF&#x2F;REW was broken on my Roku.<p>Yeah, now I download the .deb and build my container from a local .deb file, rather than downloading in the container. It was stupid, but I had grabbed the container build script from someone and didn&#x27;t think about it until it was too late.<p>I&#x27;m still on a pre-1.0 release, and when the Roku client doesn&#x27;t work anymore, I&#x27;ll switch to Emby, or whatever is free and hot at the time.

I&#x27;ve been using Emby only for a few months now and love it. I was considering switching to Plex (for its probably better looking interface) but the comments here have convinced me against it.

<i>Plex News. It’s the perfect complement to your media library — video news from some of the most trusted sources on the planet,</i><p>I always get nervous when companies start talking up the credibility of news outlets. To me, it indicates a lack critical thinking especially when the very next image on the page has logos from CNN (of &quot;reading wikileaks is illegal if you&#x27;re not a media outlet&quot; fame) and TheBlaze (of Glenn Beck fame).<p>I suppose you could write it off as marketing fluff, but.. still. That little nagging feeling. So long as they give me the ability to ban specific sources from ever showing up in my feed, fine, otherwise this will just be another feature that has to be ignored to avoid consuming propaganda.

I&#x27;m confused why everyone (both regular users and plex pass users) gets ads.

I just want Plex integration with Google Home&#x27;s voice command so it is on par with Netflix and YouTube.<p>I am a playing Plex subscriber because I want it to get better at its core functionality. I do not want news on Plex.