Among the most popular were plugins for services like Pandora, CNN, Vimeo and others.īut Plex says that less than 2 percent of people were using Plugins, and it was built with an outdated protocol that’s difficult to support. The Plugins feature allows users to add various channels and other third-party add-ons to their account, so they can access online content, including video, audio and other photo services. The decision to shut down Plugins seems to have given Plex the most concern, and was not taken lightly, the company says. In this case, the feature allowed subscribers to select some content from their local media library, then sync a copy to a cloud storage provider for access when the local Plex Media Server was unavailable. Still, Cloud Sync’s removal is another example of Plex stepping away from supporting other cloud platforms. Meanwhile, Cloud Sync was adopted by so few that Plex jokingly challenged any upset users to “DM us a photo of your Cloud Sync library and today’s newspaper,” to prove they actually used it. “Watch Later,” it says, was costly to maintain and hard to justify when only a handful of folks used it, for example.

However, Plex says that its decision to shut down this other group of features has to do more with their lack of use. However, the change has also meant that support for things like Plex Cloud - which allowed users to stream their media from cloud storage sites like Google Drive and Dropbox - no longer take precedence.

Plex media player discontinued