There’s apparently a Plex outage currently. And it’s a bit frustrating as it’s preventing our TV app from connecting. Just an endless spinner after choosing a user despite only using local media etc.

  • andrew@lemmy.stuart.funOP
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    1 year ago

    Dang, I should have posted this 10 minutes ago as it’s back online now. Still, a little frustrating that what I thought was 99% local apparently has a pretty critical 1% on services someone else controls.

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      1 year ago

      A Plex client connects to a Plex server through the central Plex service. That way you don’t have to mess with your router and you can invite anyone in the Plex system easily to your own server. The drawback is that you will have issues when the central service is unreachable.

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        1 year ago

        I guess I’d hoped it was less frequently than every time a user logs in. Or that the metadata was locally cached and checked occasionally. Or that there’d be a fallback for cases like this when outages occur. It’s a nice feature for sure, but not having a local fallback (even a complicated one for most users) is a bummer.

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          1 year ago

          That is quite concerning to be sure. Makes you rethink the so-called “Lifetime” pass.

  • FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    So this was affecting when I click on a movie and then click on an actor to get the other movies they are in that are in MY library. I guess this means if the net goes down most of Plex is just not working?