▲ 783 ▼ Jellyfin, we are moving away from Reddit and we are pleased to announce our new forum! (jellyfin.org) submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by c1b0@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org 180 comments fedilink hide all child comments official twitter announcement https://twitter.com/jellyfin/status/1670589982665322496
[–] brie@beehaw.org 9 points 3 years ago (2 children) According to the footer they're running MyBB so although it is more centralised, I wouldn't call it proprietary. What advantages would Lemmy have over the traditional style of forum for their use case? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 7 points 3 years ago (1 child) Yeah it's not the end of the world. It's slightly disappointing that you have to create yet another account unnecessarily. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] dan@upvote.au 4 points 3 years ago You can log in to their forum with Discord, Github, Google, Reddit, Stack Exchange or Twitter accounts. It would be better for them to support logging in with any OpenID provider using OpenID Connect, but they do support some of the major ones at least (except for Facebook and Apple). permalink fedilink source parent [–] reric88@beehaw.org 6 points 3 years ago The only real advantage I can see is they would be another mass of users on the fediverse, which is what we want I suppose. I mean I do want it to be populated, and if more people migrate, it ensures survival of their community. I don't like how we have all scattered to the wind, but it's their choice where to go permalink fedilink source parent
[–] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 7 points 3 years ago (1 child) Yeah it's not the end of the world. It's slightly disappointing that you have to create yet another account unnecessarily. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] dan@upvote.au 4 points 3 years ago You can log in to their forum with Discord, Github, Google, Reddit, Stack Exchange or Twitter accounts. It would be better for them to support logging in with any OpenID provider using OpenID Connect, but they do support some of the major ones at least (except for Facebook and Apple). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] dan@upvote.au 4 points 3 years ago You can log in to their forum with Discord, Github, Google, Reddit, Stack Exchange or Twitter accounts. It would be better for them to support logging in with any OpenID provider using OpenID Connect, but they do support some of the major ones at least (except for Facebook and Apple). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] reric88@beehaw.org 6 points 3 years ago The only real advantage I can see is they would be another mass of users on the fediverse, which is what we want I suppose. I mean I do want it to be populated, and if more people migrate, it ensures survival of their community. I don't like how we have all scattered to the wind, but it's their choice where to go permalink fedilink source parent