Even tho they didn't move to the fediverse, I'm glad they left reddit.
this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2023
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I've been using Plex forever. Got the lifetime subscription a million years ago.
Is there anything I'm missing out on by not using Jellyfin? Anything I'd miss on Plex moving to it?
Same situation
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I'm happy that forums are making a come back. Missed visiting all my early forums, in my early Internet days.
It'll be interesting to see how it turns out for them. I'm a fairly casual user of Jellyfin - not enough that I'd sign up on their forum or regularly read it, unless I specifically needed tech support. Unfortunately though that means that I might miss out on updates and if there was any (relatively easy) tech support questions I won't see them and be able to contribute. I suspect that the pool of people they interact with is going to be substantially smaller on their forum than it was previously.
Having worked with both as a dev, can't really understand MyBB over phpBB. I found it much friendlier to both the users and the devs
I've tried both as a forum admin. I think it's just a matter of preference at this point. phpBB is still sporting that old compact style, which kinda makes it look dated.
And they announce it on Twitter? 🙄
The irony in this is massive. It's so weird to see that you are the only one pointing it out.
They also announced it on their Mastodon, I guess OP didn't realize they had one.
Fair enough I guess. Though them having Twitter at all is still a bit ironic...
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I'm sure Jellyfin considered the Fediverse but some projects like the idea of having more control of the community discussions they participate in so having a forum makes sense. I still think a Jellyfin community on Lemmy can thrive with an official forum in place.
forums is all around an infinitely better solution for support and discussions on specific tech and interest. It's also more searchable and less ephemeral. At least reddit and fediverse is better then ephemeral solutions like discord.
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I find the biggest problem with Lemmy and these federated apps is that search engine indexing kinda sucks right now. They get pushed so far down the bottom of the results, you only really see them when you search site:lemmy.ml or whatever.
I believe this was a good decision. Hopefully in the future search engine indexing will improve. Otherwise I can't see Lemmy being as useful as Reddit.
It makes sense for fediverse instances to have very low SEO (search engine ranking) as the content is split up across many different websites and domains.
It's also very annoying to crosslink content on the fediverse. So there is far fewer links between discussions. The network graph is way less interconnected, and that hurts search indexing.
I know people are okay with them not integrating ActivityPub, but personally it would have meant me participating as apposed to not.
I have been eyeing jellyfin for years and easier access to their official forum would have been great.
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