Hello everyone, As you may have seen on the left of the page, we’ve once again gotten close to our storage capacity. In an effort to open up some more space and still be able to maintain the open requests submissions as usual. Again for this purge, constraints have been tightened a bit from 500 days to 365 days for un-viewed content. Affected Library Scenarios Thresholds TV ShowsMovies – Days since any Plex user viewed the content exceeds… 365 days TV ShowsMovies – Days since media has been added and no Plex user has viewed the content exceeds… 60 days Preliminary dry runs indicate a significant relief to the storage arrays utilized space under these new conditions. Pruning routine execution time: January 2nd, 2:00 AM EST -LightSpeedTaco

Hello everyone, As you may have seen on the left of the page, we’ve once again gotten close to our storage capacity. In an effort to open up some more space and still be able to maintain the open requests submissions as usual. Movie and Show media that was added but has yet to be watched since it’s addition for 90 days, it will be removed. This has changed from the prior constraint of 180 days. Affected Library Scenarios Thresholds TV ShowsMovies – Days since any Plex user viewed the content exceeds… 500 days TV ShowsMovies – Days since media has been added and no Plex user has viewed the content exceeds… 90 days *Note: Considering 365 days for any views down from 500 days… Preliminary dry runs indicate a significant relief to the storage arrays utilized space under these new conditions. Pruning routine execution time: by August 1st, 2024 Completed: July 29th, 2024 – 4:42 PM EST -LightSpeedTaco

If you’ve made it this far, then you’ll likely have already seen the first item in the title of this post on the left side of the webpage. That’s right, every 5 minutes, we do a quick query and send a update if it’s changed between the media server hardware and the dev blog here. Why every 5 minutes? Well, requests will spike the usage of storage particularly if it’s an entire set of files rather than the day to day on and off traffic of keeping things up to date. Without expressly mentioning the available and utilized storage numbers themselves but providing a percentage and traffic-light style indicator system, you will be able to gauge how close we are to a stale content purge, which brings us to our next order of business in this post, the upcoming stale media purge. If you recall or were already a member when this post went up, then it’ll be more of the same for you. Here is the same breakdown from the prior purge as the thresholds have not changed since. Affected Library Scenarios Thresholds TV ShowsMovies – Days since any Plex user viewed the content exceeds… 500 days TV ShowsMovies… Read More »Storage Indicator | Upcoming Mass Stale Media Removal | Request Protections

Hello everyone, Following the recent metadata agent migration to the newer standard Plex uses may have caused some of your watch history and progress to be either lost or out of sync with where you may remember it being last. An unfortunate side affect to the migration but a small price to pay in the end. It’s not that an attempt wasn’t made to bring through the existing watch history which is still archived and available to me; several attempts were made, in the end unsuccessful nonetheless. Given the sheer volume of data in the SQLite database Plex uses to manage everything is quite a cumbersome file to say the least. Some losses are inevitable but still you have my apologies. During the above migration, at some point, the requests system became very confused with the changes occurring en mass with regards to metadata for all the media it index from Jellyfin and Plex respectively. As such, the super convenient buttons in the requests page that, once your media is added to the server successfully, provides a link directly to the media server page to view the request depending on your account, the choices being a Jellyfin account or a… Read More »Plex Metadata Changes | Watch History | Requests<->Media Server Status

Hello (there (everyone)), It’s been a considerable amount of relative radio silence on my end. Fortunately, I have been able to take some much needed time to dedicate towards making some changes I’ve either had in mind or had already had started implementing at some point up until now. For a considerable amount of time, I’ve been aware of and attempting to come up with a solution to the inescapable issue of maintaining available storage space. While the full size of the array is indeed nothing to sneeze at, this is not enough to sustain indefinitely, it is enough to allow for a sizable buffer of floating free storage space that would be used as requests require. Some of our very early users will recall a time of great plenty in which the requests system was not bound by any form of limit, be it an entire TV series years in the making, a single season, a single episode or an entire movie franchise, all were free to request to their hearts’ content. Eventually, as the number of users increased, requests became overwhelming and unmanageable, hence the limitations being initially introduced. This was at a time when the systems in… Read More »Been a while | Good News