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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 to c/technology@beehaw.org
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official twitter announcement https://twitter.com/jellyfin/status/1670589982665322496

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[–] 6 points 3 years ago (5 children)

Discord has forums for long form discussions. Slow mode can be enabled so that it doesn't turn into a "chat".

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Round peg, square hole IMO. Discord is designed as a chat application with an afterthought of threading and forums (I guess?). It's not a reddit replacement, and it's not designed as a forum.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I think forum mode has the same limitations as regular Discord - posts aren't indexed in Google, search is kinda... meh, you have to sign up to see anything, and overall it's still not a platform built for long-form discussions.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    I feel that a lot of people are missing the point that discord has done something that other software has not. It makes it easy to centralize communication. It is invaluable for small developers.

    And while yes the information is not available via general searching, the searching within discord is actually pretty good.

    I keep seeing people mention matrix as a viable alternative to discord but my experience with matrix has me calling bs.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago*

    It makes it easy to centralize communication.

    Centralisation is why we have issues with Reddit at the moment. It puts you at the whims of a single company, who will eventually want to make more money (after all, they're not a charity). For example, Discord could one day announce that you only get the 500 most recent messages for free, or limit the room size, or make some other changes that vastly impact how it's being used today.

    the searching within discord is actually pretty good.

    I really don't want to have to go to multiple different sites to search for information. That's why we have search engines. Discord being a walled-garden makes it a lot more difficult than it should be.

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