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Plex is overhauling its apps with a redesign and under-the-hood upgrades (www.engadget.com)

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

crashing on start

My main issue is that my TV occasionally decides to kill the network, which causes Jellyfin to crash on startup, clearing the server. It's annoying, but I think the bigger problem is the TV, not Jellyfin.

I think the navigation is fine. I like the scroll by letter thing for movies on the right, and I don't have so many TV shows that it's an issue (maybe like 5-10 series? We don't watch a ton of serials), and my kids seem to navigate it just fine. I did spend some time naming everything properly, so maybe that's the difference? We rarely navigate though. My kids watch one show start to finish (however much time we give them), we generally watch one movie as a family and are done, and my SO uses it for exercise videos.

[–] interurbain1er 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I've reported my fair share of bugs but the main issue with the android app is that the code is amateurish and poorly tested. Lots of the crash bugs are just devs not checking for non existent values and relying on perfect network conditions.

But yeah, It gets the job done, it's just not a great app.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 2 points 17 hours ago

Hmm, I haven't used it much. Maybe I'll take some time this holiday season to go bug squashing. I did a little of that with the Jerboa app here some time back, so maybe I'll lend a hand here as well.

That said, I've only used it to show my collection to friends or test a new network tweak.