The New Jellyfin Forum | Jellyfin
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We've added a new, and hopefully improved, dedicated forum for our community
  • LeftBoobFreckle@lemmy.mlEnglish
    13·
    1 year ago

    I get the desire for a centralized location but I was hoping Lemmy would be the spot. Forums just seen so fragmented, it’s nice to go to one place to see all the discussion instead of having several subpages which honestly have little action. https://lemmy.ml/c/jellyfin seemed like the best replacement for r/Jellyfin

    • peregus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I totally agree with you! Why didn’t they just hosted their own Lemmy instance???

      • ericjmorey@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Lemmy’s moderation tools are severely lacking and they seemed to want to get away from the rank by voting system and the churn created by older but relevant and active discussion being hidden on Reddit and Lemmy.

      • ElectroVagrant@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Probably for similar reasons as to why they moved from Reddit. Also configuring their own instance to approximate a traditional forum would honestly kind of undermine the whole point of using Lemmy or the like to begin with (at least imo).

        I understand the sentiment of wanting them to to make their stuff easier to follow & post to from here and other places in the Fediverse, but from what they wrote, I get the sense that this format simply isn’t what they were ever looking for in terms of fielding discussions/questions. Their move to Reddit was more of a compromise for where they were at with the project at the time, but now that Jellyfin’s more developed in terms of the software and community, a forum is a more workable prospect.

  • SidneyGrant@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    Congrats, that’s the kind of mentality that will make me move from Plex to Jellyfin tomorrow evening :)

  • decentralized@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    As someone who had to Google a bunch of docker issues and constantly got redirected to locked down subreddits, I’m all for developers hosting their own communities. At least then they have an incentive to keep the communities alive.

    • joshuaacasey@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      just as long as it’s not a shitty scenario such as using discord where the information is 1. not publicly searchable because it’s stuck behind a login page, and 2. even though technically discord has a search function, good luck finding what you’re looking for

      • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Chats are not forums. Discord is the same bullcrap than Reddit and Facebook, just newer on the enshittification cycle. People should just have forums and someone could make a containerized microservice that federates it to Activity Hub. Now it’s searchable, indexable, publicly available and archivable.

  • ericjmorey@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I wish they would have chosen to use software to maintain threading in comments and I’m not sure that really Discourse gamifies it’s posts. After a quick look at the interface of myBB, I can say that I personally prefer Discourse. But I think non-accelrated-time-decaing forums are way better than Reddit for things like a project hub. I think what I liked about having many of my interests in on Reddit was the context switch for a topic often didn’t require a context switch in interface to benefit from the network effect of many people participating in the topic.

    But at the end of the day, knowing where to get quality assistance and casual discussion about a topic or project is all I’m after. Reddit has been a place to find what I was after, oftentimes as a signpost to find where people are gathering. And now the threadiverse is providing that function much better and sooner than I expected despite its many shortcomings.

    • vividspecter@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I was just thinking that common forum software implementing ActivityPub would be a great way to link all of these disparate web forums that are still active and have useful content.

  • Prevail90@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    But can you make a lemmy.world feed as well. Having one place to go for everything is better than 100 places.

    • Derproid@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      01·
      1 year ago

      Eh I see no reason to have support discussions in Lemmy. Leave Lemmy for promotions, updates, and sharing content.

  • Eisenhowever@kbin.social
    0·
    1 year ago

    Says “no fee, no tracking, no hidden agenda”

    Yet somehow they are offering this for free? How exactly are they keeping themselves supported?

    That is (jelly)fishy…

      • yabasta@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Maybe… If they wanted to create an announcement effect, they could have simply stuck to their website or Mastodon etc… Posting on Twitter (!!!) the fact that they’re reacting so harshly to the Reddit case…for me it doesn’t make sense…

        • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
          01·
          1 year ago

          Dude, they want people to know, so they go to where people is. This is not field of dreams, if you build it no one will come unless you tell them where to find it. Try to relax a little, they do have a Mastodon and even have a Matrix instance bridged to Discord. They engage on Lemmy as well. Just, breathe deeply and put the toxicity away.

          • yabasta@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            I’m relaxed, thank you for your advice, no toxicity here, just a reflection on using closed networks to promote free software… It doesn’t change the fact that I really love Jellyfin and will never switch back to Plex or anything else…