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Jellyfin, we are moving away from Reddit and we are pleased to announce our new forum! (jellyfin.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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official twitter announcement https://twitter.com/jellyfin/status/1670589982665322496

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Well it's a good decision. As they say, never put all your eggs in one basket, especially if you have no control over the basket.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm surprised to hear people don't like Discourse, I really enjoy the layout and find following threads much easier than a traditional forum. Maybe it's because I was never really into traditional forums lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

as an alternative there is flarum. https://discuss.flarum.org/

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Good for them. Hopefully this will make it much easier to consolidate guides and helpful info for Jellyfin.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wonder why those chose mybb over discourse. I definitely prefer the latter.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I find discourse incredibly unfriendly to use. Ardour use it for their forum and it puts me off visiting.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Here I am wishing they had chosen VBulletin or Invision, lol. I think it's just a case of what I'm more familiar with in terms of forums though.

I get their decision, forum software is stable, has plugins and tools to help with moderation, has been around a long time and they don't have to worry about things like LemmyNSFW or other instances they don't want the hassle of because they control all the content that shows up in a forum space.

I'm just glad it's not a fucking Discord thing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I definitely agree with them not using Lemmy. I think one centralised forum makes sense for large projects to use. Much easier to organize and manage.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I'm happy that forums are making a come back. Missed visiting all my early forums, in my early Internet days.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I've been using Plex forever. Got the lifetime subscription a million years ago.

Is there anything I'm missing out on by not using Jellyfin? Anything I'd miss on Plex moving to it?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Also a Plex lifetime user. I tried jellyfin not too long ago to see what the fuss was all about. I had heard that they handled her tonemapping better.

The interface is different but more or less just as good as Plex. It's definitely more for the person that likes to dive in the details of the config of their server. For example, you need to setup your own domain for external users to connect to. It's not done automatically like on Plex.

The focus on your content vs the "free" content Plex shoves in our face is nice I must admit.

Just a question of preference. In the end I stuck it out with Plex... For now.

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