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[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] ericjmorey 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Add on user purge behavior and the headaches that causes. Can't count the number of times I've been looking into an issue and came across a two year old reddit thread where the solution had been deleted. Much less likely to happen on a dedicated forum.

[–] ElectroVagrant 7 points 1 year 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.

[–] TurnItOff_OnAgain 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My gripe with old school forums is that there isn't really any threading for comments. Makes it hard to keep up with things

[–] grue 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] MoreQsThanAs 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Would you happen to be able to list some? I’ve been looking!

[–] grue 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] MoreQsThanAs 1 points 10 months ago

Thanks for getting back to me!

[–] Dark_Arc 1 points 1 year ago

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