- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/642061
official twitter announcement https://twitter.com/jellyfin/status/1670589982665322496
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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
My gripe with old school forums is that there isn’t really any threading for comments. Makes it hard to keep up with things
Some forums have nested comments. It depends on the software.
Would you happen to be able to list some? I’ve been looking!
I have no firsthand experience, but looking at this page, candidates appear to include:
- Beehive Forum
- FUDforum
- MyBB
- Phorum
I also assume the last open-source version of Reddit’s software is still floating around the 'net somewhere.
Thanks for getting back to me!
I totally agree with you! Why didn’t they just hosted their own Lemmy instance???
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.
Congrats, that’s the kind of mentality that will make me move from Plex to Jellyfin tomorrow evening :)
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.
I’m out of the loop, what’s going on with plex?
From what I remember from the last time I opened it, they added streamed content with ads. That’s the only thing that seemed weird to me. I think they started charging for streaming content outside of the house as well, but I only ever used it to stream from my PC to my TV.
I stream from my server at my parents’ place all the time. No charge. Though I did buy a lifetime pass several years ago.
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.
Check their documentation, should be all there you need.
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.
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Chats are not forums. Discord is the same bullcrap than Reddit and Facebook, just newer on the enshittification cycle. People should just have forums and someone could make a containerized microservice that federates it to Activity Hub. Now it’s searchable, indexable, publicly available and archivable.
Also being discussed in the Jellyfin Lemmy (which has some unofficial dev participation): https://lemmy.ca/post/749294
damn that’s gross
Good for them. Using Discord for development work has never made sense to me.
Only one question remains: will it federate
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.
They honestly should use a modified version of lemmy
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
Yes, yes, yes, please yes! Let it use the ActivityPub protocol, it’ll be so epic pogchamp, fire lit fam 🙏🏻
But can you make a lemmy.world feed as well. Having one place to go for everything is better than 100 places.
I wish they would have chosen to use software to maintain threading in comments and I’m not sure that really Discourse 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.
Hooo, time traveling to the 90s I see. Very vintage
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
Yes! I finally just set up a dynamic DNS so I could get my music away from home.
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.
Not really the direct I foresaw for this, going to be a big mess of trying to find helpful info n all.
This is heaps cool. For some reason I read it as Jellyfish are moving away from reddit.
Woohoo!
Also, time for them to start posting to Mastodon!
They have a Mastodon account. They post there.
I think it’s cool they are using myBB, I’m a big fan for that style of community.
