No offense Tanner, but that is about the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Not only is this bad for ROKU's customers, but it is also bad for recently released channels. How is a channel supposed to gain an audience if nobody knows if exists?
The thought of just randomly searching through categories and happening upon a channel that is new amongst the list of thousands that are in the store is absurd at best. One of the most useful features there was (besides actually watching content) is removed with no possible way to even come close duplicating its functionality. Very poor choice on someone's part.
Oh, and irony of your recommendation is just uncanny, "To find similar content from the previous category, you can look through the selection of featured, most watched, or top free channels." What would any of those do to help resolve the issue of not being able to see newly added channels? A new channel certainly isn't going to show up under "most watched", nor will it show up under "top free", as a new channel would never be either of those. The odds of it being "featured" are also extremely slim, unless the channel is from a BIG NAME publisher, like perhaps the soon offered Disney Streaming Service. The little guys are never going to get found, and Roku is purposely allowing it to happen, basically killing off all chances for them to ever get a foot in the door.
The offered solution is not a solution at all, it's a JOKE, and not a funny one.
