I get the desire for a centralized location but I was hoping Lemmy would be the spot. Forums just seen so fragmented, it's nice to go to one place to see all the discussion instead of having several subpages which honestly have little action. https://lemmy.ml/c/jellyfin seemed like the best replacement for r/Jellyfin
Lemmy's moderation tools are severely lacking and they seemed to want to get away from the rank by voting system and the churn created by older but relevant and active discussion being hidden on Reddit and Lemmy.
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.
I couldn’t be happier having made the move off of plex to jellyfin a couple years back. Plex is basically dead to me since they made their move into enshittification. Jellyfin is perfect! Works great never crashes etc.
Yep, I'm having a hard time remembering exactly when I switched - feels like 3 years ago? I had been watching them excitedly since they forked from Emby, and as soon as it sounded like they were pretty happy with where it had stabilized I jumped ship from Plex.
Had some very minor issues very early on that I mention only for full disclosure, but it's been like a rock otherwise, and absolutely no BS of any kind from the team or the product.
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.
Last time I used it, it really struggled with subtitles, especially anime subs. Right now I just use plex for media management and Kodi on all my devices to watch stuff via a Kodi addon.
I've been wanting to make the jump for awhile and I've used jellyfin as a secondary server on my library to test run it. I really enjoy it for a lot of reasons but need to properly figure out reverse proxy before I implement it as my main.
this is a big pain for me as well. So right now I still just run plex + jellyfin at the same time on my server. Locally, all over the house, I use apple tv with the Infuse app connected to jellyfin to stream everything which works perfectly, but I have family members and friends who stream from my media library outside of the house, and they all use the plex app. I'm not sure of a way to get them connected to my jellyfin library. If/when I can figure that out, and more importantly, make it dead simple for the end users, I'll gladly close down the plex server for the last time ever.
As someone who had to Google a bunch of docker issues and constantly got redirected to locked down subreddits, I'm all for developers hosting their own communities. At least then they have an incentive to keep the communities alive.
I was just thinking that common forum software implementing ActivityPub would be a great way to link all of these disparate web forums that are still active and have useful content.
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
I meant, jellyfin, jellyseer, all the arrs are convient when i can go to one place to look at possible issues im having in one place, i.e. reddit. But since reddit decided to do what they did, thats now lemmy. Yes it was annoying but logging into multiple website ls is also annoying. Thats the only reason i use discord as well. One platform multiple spaces.
I wish they would have chosen to use software to maintain threading in comments and I'm not sure that Discourse really gamifies it's posts. After a quick look at the interface of myBB, I can say that I personally prefer Discourse. But I think non-accelrated-time-decaing forums are way better than Reddit for things like a project hub. I think what I liked about having many of my interests in on Reddit was the context switch for a topic often didn't require a context switch in interface to benefit from the network effect of many people participating in the topic.
But at the end of the day, knowing where to get quality assistance and casual discussion about a topic or project is all I'm after. Reddit has been a place to find what I was after, oftentimes as a signpost to find where people are gathering. And now the threadiverse is providing that function much better and sooner than I expected despite its many shortcomings.
This would have been better if they had created a Federated platform so we could subscribe to it from here. I'm tired of using a dozen apps to do basically the same thing.
Nice. I know most here are used to how Reddit structures their content, or are on the federation bandwagon. Personally I'm just happy to see the internet get a little more decentralized.
On a related note I should set up and play around with some old school forum software. It's been a few years since I've looked at it.
Maybe... If they wanted to create an announcement effect, they could have simply stuck to their website or Mastodon etc...
Posting on Twitter (!!!) the fact that they're reacting so harshly to the Reddit case...for me it doesn't make sense...
Jellyfin is open sourced and supported by donations. I've used it for around a year and I can confirm there have been no fees, tracking, or anything else.
I am going to downvote you because you put zero effort in understanding that they are offering only the software as free software, not hardware or streaming in any form
I'm guessing you don't have much experience with FOSS software. It's volunteer driven, with a set of passionate maintainors at the helm. Much like Linux.
Jellyfin was forked from Emby in response to exactly those things several years ago. It's a reliable, well supported, actively developed product that replaced Plex for me with ease.
It's a FOSS application. Software that users deploy on their own hardware to host videos that they store themselves and make them available for clients to view either on LAN or the internet. It's not something like a Youtube alternative that would need to pay hosting costs for petabytes of (pirated) media, the only costs Jellyfin's developers incur are the costs of labor (coding, graphic design, debugging, etc)