After a year of pulling in scattered streaming services into one app, Plex has launched a significant upgrade to their Discover feature. The new “Discover Together” adds a social layer to your streaming experience, bringing the “water cooler effect” directly into the app. Now you can see what your friends are watching, rating, and adding to their watchlists – creating that community feeling that’s been missing from our increasingly isolated streaming habits.
The update adds three new tabs: Activity (showing what your friends are watching and rating), People (for finding and adding friends), and Profile (displaying your viewing stats and preferences). Each title in your activity feed offers options to mark as watched, add to your watchlist, or join the conversation through comments. You can even share specific titles directly with select friends, along with your personal take on why they should watch.
Privacy remains front and center, with granular controls letting you decide exactly what you share and with whom. You can make your watchlist public while keeping your watch history private, or even mute friends whose constant Marvel movie marathons are cluttering your feed. For those truly problematic connections, a blocking feature removes all mutual visibility and library access.
This evolution of Plex feels like the natural next step for the platform. While algorithms can suggest what you might enjoy based on viewing patterns, nothing beats personal recommendations from people whose taste you trust. As streaming becomes increasingly fragmented across dozens of services, Plex continues to position itself as a unifying layer and now adds the social element that’s been surprisingly absent from most streaming platforms.