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.

Some forums have nested comments. It depends on the software.

Agreed, I never understood why the discourse developer hates threading.

I’m out of the loop, what’s going on with plex?

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.

Other than that, it’s pretty much perfect!

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.

Yes. That’s kind of the point of it… think Emby, but some of the Emby devs didn’t wanna sell out, so they made their own open source version…

Technically yes. But you have to set it up yourself/it’s more technical, manual and involved.

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.

I’m in the same boat. I’m part of a big friend group on Plex which makes it awesome.

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.

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: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=subtitles+site%3Aforum.jellyfin.org&ia=web shows forum posts regarding subtitles.

You kind of can with wordpress and the AP plugin. it works with bbpress --maybe not perfectly yet, but it’s a start.

They honestly should use a modified version of lemmy

They should just federate, they don’t need to use Lemmy to have it viewable from Lemmy/Kbin

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.

It looks “different” is probably the biggest reason. But I don’t particularly like the way they do threads

I sure do hope so miss the days of finding some cool forums

And I am all in on that.