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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm surprised to hear people don't like Discourse, I really enjoy the layout and find following threads much easier than a traditional forum. Maybe it's because I was never really into traditional forums lol

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Good for them. Hopefully this will make it much easier to consolidate guides and helpful info for Jellyfin.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wonder why those chose mybb over discourse. I definitely prefer the latter.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I find discourse incredibly unfriendly to use. Ardour use it for their forum and it puts me off visiting.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Here I am wishing they had chosen VBulletin or Invision, lol. I think it's just a case of what I'm more familiar with in terms of forums though.

I get their decision, forum software is stable, has plugins and tools to help with moderation, has been around a long time and they don't have to worry about things like LemmyNSFW or other instances they don't want the hassle of because they control all the content that shows up in a forum space.

I'm just glad it's not a fucking Discord thing.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well it's a good decision. As they say, never put all your eggs in one basket, especially if you have no control over the basket.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I'm happy that forums are making a come back. Missed visiting all my early forums, in my early Internet days.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (8 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Plex is better overall currently imo having tried both recently. It's just simply more mature software where things just work and it has a ton more features.

Jellyfin is pretty awesome though in its own right and heading in a great direction.

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

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Finally. I’m happy to see them moving from the subreddit. It wasn’t terrible, but a forum will be better I think in the long run.

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