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

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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] 6 points 2 years 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] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

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

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

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 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 2 years ago (2 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 2 years ago (2 children)

I think vBulletin is - at best - dormant these days. I spent about 10 years on a vBulletin-powered forum before I went over to reddit... 12 years ago.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Finally. I’m happy to see them moving from the subreddit. It wasn’t terrible, but a forum will be better I think in the long run.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years 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 2 years 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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