jellyfin has this :)
Plex ending support for Watch Together
Submitted 5 weeks ago by Presi300@lemmy.world to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
PirateKingLuffy@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
I have been using Jellyfin for over a year and have never seen this. I’ll have to look later! What client do you use?
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
SyncPlay.
It’s a people icon in the top right in most clients that support it.
Users can set up a room, and other users can then see an join that room. Any media played in the room is played on all clients in the room.
BlastboomStrice@mander.xyz 5 weeks ago
Oh wow, I thought I had to use syncplay once I build my server, but thats handy
whuwu@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
I’ve tried it a couple times and it’s never worked for me. It’s the only thing keeping me on Plex. I couldn’t find much about this online as apparently not many people watch stuff with other people online???
grue@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Stop using proprietary software. It will always betray you, sooner or later.
That goes double when a serviceable Free Software alternative exists and you lose little by switching.
GaMEChld@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
That just sounds like use whatever works best at the time and switch as needed. Plex worked well for me for many years. But now it looks like the alternatives have caught up or beat it. That doesn’t mean the years I’ve enjoyed it are somehow erased.
lemmylommy@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
What is the „new experience“? Usually that means enshittification.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
It usually comes with a price “update”
twistypencil@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
There is a beta, you can try it, it looks nice
olympus5737@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Genuinely surprised how people still stick with Plex at this point.
Presi300@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
It’s way easier to setup and way easier to get people who are not into tech to use it
MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
Still is by a landslide. Especially when you want to share you stuff with other people
olympus5737@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I get the platform and ease of use aspect for sure. It just seems Plex has killed much of the “spirit” of what drives people towards self-hosted media consumption. Those benefits of Plex have waned so much in recent years.
Sawblade02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Ah FFS, I use that all the time with my wife while we’re an ocean apart.
MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
still works through the browser client
Sawblade02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Thanks I’ll make sure she switches to loading it up in Firefox.
jollyroger@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
It sucks 😞 I use the feature a lot. Luckily you can still use it for the foreseeable future in the web app… But I don’t really use the watch together feature on the web app when I use it. They’ve sent an e-mail which is more confusing. They mentioned the watch together feature was quickly implemented on the current version. (Was it because of COVID? I don’t remember) So it means the feature should be relatively straightforward to implement in the new version? Right? Especially since they mention they spent two years rewriting their apps “from the ground up” to enable them " to bring new features to you more efficiently, across more platforms, with much higher quality than ever before"
Also if they developed it from the ground up they could have taken into account the watch together feature to rewrite as well. They either did not want to implement it from the start. Or noticed it wasn’t compatible with the new tech they wanted to use in the new versions.
The mail
It was the year 2020. Life had gotten very different, very fast. Then, at the request of a fan named Joe, Plex Labs quickly put in some long hours creating a way for the world to watch together when circumstances kept us apart. It wasn’t perfect, but this experimental feature created human connection in a time when we needed it most. Now, five years later, we are nearing the official release of our new Plex experience that will bring us closer together than ever before. We’ve spent two years rewriting our apps from the ground up to boost our development speed, which should enable us to bring new features to you more efficiently, across more platforms, with much higher quality than ever before. However, this release also means ending support for some features that we’ve grown to love, like Watch Together. Though support for Watch Together will not be available in the new Plex experience for most devices, you can still continue to use the feature in our web app for the foreseeable future. And because we’ve seen your love and tremendous response to this feature, we don’t preclude the possibility of offering similar functionality again in the future, using new tooling. We know that this decision will impact many of you, and we appreciate your support and understanding. Sincerely, Your Friends at Plex
tias@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
Would be easier to give “support and understanding” if they actually explained why they didn’t reimplement it in the new “experience”.
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
Have you heard of our lord and savior fmhy.pages.dev ?
figjam@midwest.social 5 weeks ago
Heck yeah!
Presi300@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Heck yeah
Cris16228@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
Forgive my dumbness dumb but whats the difference between fmhy.net and fmhy.pages.dev?
greywolf0x1@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
Probably the same content hosted on different domains?
sommerset@thelemmy.club 5 weeks ago
Never used it
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Plex experience
Fuck you right in your marketer whore mouth.
Sorry. I kinda lost it for a sec. I’m absolutely done with this marketing speech where everything’s an experience or the spend on actioning the ask is the goal of our synergy win. I feel dirty using those whore words, and I feel people are cheap skanks when they use them as well.
I hate thinking people I don’t know yet are just filthy whores, even if the signs are there in full stereo sound. Like somewhere, I hear a shitty saxophone and a porn bass, the jungle drums of cheap sleazy late-stage porn star fucklumpdom.
And I should be better. The whores should be better, bimbos and jimbos, also. Maybe if they all died of syphilis right now I’d be happier.
Yes. Yes I would. I would be happier if everyone who said ‘experience’ like that, or ‘the ask’, or ‘the spend’, or ‘action this’ like they’re too fuckknuckled to choose a fitting verb, or a sales ‘win’, or synergy outside a bio lab; I would be happier if they all died of syphilis.
And then cluster migraines every time someone says ‘emails’. Wait. No, that’s mean. Just a game misconduct penalty of some kind.
-fweet- illegal construction. Penalty! 10 yards. Repeat first grade. (‘yard’ here is a junk punch)
Yeah. Now I’m smiling.
surph_ninja@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
It was destined to fail. Ever try to add friends on Plex? It’s a shitshow just to find where in the UI to add a friend or accept a request. And you can’t use Watch Together until everyone watching is friends with everyone.
It crashes like crazy anyway. I don’t think it’s worked well for me in over a year.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
They already took out the option to watch playlists together like six months ago.
Bosht@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
So what’s the alternative? Jellyfin?
Cris16228@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
Yup! You can do it and works perfectly
MSids@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
People do tend to feel frustrated when announcements like this one come out, and I’m sure it was a hard decision for the dev team, but Plex really still just works so well for me. They do a great job.
I’m sure someday a better platform might come along, and when it does I will give it a try, but for me it just wasn’t jellyfin. Plex 4
lyfenow.
potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fish 5 weeks ago
I use this all the time on my
Jellyfin
server.circuitloss@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I just moved to jellyfin instead of using Plex on my NAS, and I’m so glad that I did.
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Bluh. I installed both but went with plex because it was a super easy setup. I’ll take another look at jellyfin.
Also question: can I access stuff remotely via phone like with the plex app without any additional configuration?