The New Jellyfin Forum | Jellyfin
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We've added a new, and hopefully improved, dedicated forum for our community
  • SidneyGrant@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    2 years ago

    Congrats, that’s the kind of mentality that will make me move from Plex to Jellyfin tomorrow evening :)

  • LeftBoobFreckle@lemmy.mlEnglish
    10·
    2 years ago

    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

    • peregus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      I totally agree with you! Why didn’t they just hosted their own Lemmy instance???

      • ElectroVagrant@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        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.

  • decentralized@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • John937@kbin.social
    4·
    2 years ago

    Jellyfin is a fantastic platform and I really like to use it!

    It’s given me a second renaissance of “cutting the cable” in this streaming no-ownership era

  • Prevail90@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    2 years ago

    But can you make a lemmy.world feed as well. Having one place to go for everything is better than 100 places.

    • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      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

    • Derproid@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      23·
      2 years ago

      Eh I see no reason to have support discussions in Lemmy. Leave Lemmy for promotions, updates, and sharing content.

  • mochi@kbin.social
    3·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • ThatFunnyGuyver@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Yes, yes, yes, please yes! Let it use the ActivityPub protocol, it’ll be so epic pogchamp, fire lit fam 🙏🏻

    • vividspecter@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      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.

      • yabasta@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        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…

        • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
          01·
          2 years ago

          Dude, they want people to know, so they go to where people is. This is not field of dreams, if you build it no one will come unless you tell them where to find it. Try to relax a little, they do have a Mastodon and even have a Matrix instance bridged to Discord. They engage on Lemmy as well. Just, breathe deeply and put the toxicity away.

          • yabasta@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            2·
            2 years ago

            I’m relaxed, thanks, no toxicity here, just a reflection on using closed networks to promote free software…