Jellyfin, we are moving away from Reddit and we are pleased to announce our new forum!
cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/642061 [https://beehaw.org/post/642061] > official twitter announcement > https://twitter.com/jellyfin/status/1670589982665322496 [https://twitter.com/jellyfin/status/1670589982665322496]
As the others said below, a while back (several years at this point I think?) they decided that instead of improving their core product, they were going to move the entire business model into a really shitty version of free streaming apps. Like the ones that come preloaded on "smart" tvs full of ads and tracking.
They had an extremely long laundry list of bugs and feature requests from LONG TIME users (like me) but decided to ignore them and instead completely destroy their apps with shit.
All the sudden you login to your plex app and it's FILLED with all sorts of content you have no idea where it came from - it's not on your server, etc...
Which is all just sad, because as time passes, they'll just die off and be looked at the same as any other free shitpile streaming app full of ads, instead of what they once were: a really good home media library manager.
The only thing with jellyfin is the constant subtitle issues for years that are very difficult to resolve I guess and inconsistent across different apps. That and sorting of non movie/show content and not respecting folder view.
Other than that, it's pretty much perfect!
Woohoo!
Also, time for them to start posting to Mastodon!
I think that's the point. They are not in 100 places, they are in one. If you want support about Jellyfin, you go to Jellyfin. It was always kind of stupid with Reddit.
I need support with Jellyfin, so I go to Google, write my query, add Reddit at the end, go to result that may or may not be related, try to discover the difference between the 3 or 4 different but related subreddits to find out which one is the official. Discover that none of them is. Find another sub about cutting cable. There's a vague answer that's similar to your issue but not exactly. Maybe try asking them directly on Twitter.
Now you just go to jellyfin.org and the forum is right there, search there for your issue or write your answer. All in one single official place that is looked at and maintained by the very same team. It's just better overall
Absolutely agree that hiding knowledge behind a paywall is crappy. I hit that issue so many times with Red Hat that I standardized on debian variants.
Searching, while a function of any modern forum, is easily bypassed with a modern search engine / crawler. Unless the forum admin takes the unlikely step of disabling web crawlers on their site, you can pass the site:<website> filter into your search. For example: duckduckgo.com/?q=subtitles+site%3Aforum.jellyfin… shows forum posts regarding subtitles.
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..
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.
Current stable release: 10.8.10 (important security update) Community Standards [https://docs.jellyfin.org/general/community-standards.html] Website [https://jellyfin.org] Forum [https://forum.jellyfin.org/] GitHub [https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin] Documentation [https://docs.jellyfin.org] Feature Requests [https://features.jellyfin.org] Matrix (General Information & Help) [https://matrix.to/#/#jellyfin:matrix.org] Matrix (Announcements) [https://matrix.to/#/#jellyfin-announce:matrix.org] Matrix (General Development) [https://matrix.to/#/#jellyfin-dev:matrix.org] Matrix (Off-Topic) [https://matrix.to/#/#jellyfin-offtopic:matrix.org] - Come get to know the team and blow off steam! Matrix Space [https://matrix.to/#/#jellyfinorg:matrix.org] - List of all the available rooms on Matrix. Discord [https://discord.gg/zHBxVSXdBV] - Bridged to our Matrix rooms
Genuine why?
Discourse is implementing ActivityPub as a plugin, they should be able to federate soon.
The problem is a forum Is genuinely different than a Reddit/Lemmy board, where each forum thread can remain indefinitely alive and useful, while a reddy/Lemmy post is designed to decay with time.
It would have to be heavily modified
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