You guys have to check out this Plex disaster because it literally broke everything for anyone who relies on their server setup! The Verge reported that multiple services went down on Tuesday, including free streaming movies and shows, the plex.tv API, Discover Together, and even live TV program guide data — which is a massive deal since so many of us host our own content locally through them. People were venting all over Reddit and Plex forums about their servers being unusable; one user said basically everything was offline except local LAN playback, and even that took forever to load and failed half the time! Others couldn't match any new media at all on their servers, which is infuriating when you spend hours organizing your library. The Verge reporter also noticed the Plex TV website loading painfully slow while writing the story before it started becoming somewhat reliable again later in the afternoon.

Plex eventually confirmed they had "unexpected issues" with multiple services and posted a status page originally listing all those specific areas as affected, though they didn't offer much more detail initially. The outage lasted roughly two hours before their status page finally switched to saying everything is fully operational — so it looks like the fix did land. They weren't quick to reply to requests for comment either, which is typical when a company already has an official post going out about "unexpected issues." If you rely on Plex for your home theater at all, this is probably worth bookmarking in case things ever get wonky again since their infrastructure clearly takes hits occasionally.

Source: https://www.theverge.com/tech/965518/plex-tv-down-outage-issues