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Plex services suffer major outage, blocking user streaming

Plex experienced significant service disruptions on Tuesday, preventing users from streaming their locally hosted movies and shows. The issues were widely reported on Plex's forums and social media platforms like Reddit. The outage impacted users' ability to access their media libraries. AI

RANK_REASON The cluster reports a service outage for a consumer software product.

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Plex services suffer major outage, blocking user streaming

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The cluster reports a service outage for a consumer software product.
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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Plex problems prevented users from streaming movies and shows Plex services experienced some major issues on Tuesday, with multiple users reporting problems on

    Plex problems prevented users from streaming movies and shows Plex services experienced some major issues on Tuesday, with multiple users reporting problems on Plex's forums and on Reddit. Many people use Plex as a way to stream shows and movies they host locally, but users are u…