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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
I wonder why those chose mybb over discourse. I definitely prefer the latter.
I find discourse incredibly unfriendly to use. Ardour use it for their forum and it puts me off visiting.
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Good for them. Hopefully this will make it much easier to consolidate guides and helpful info for Jellyfin.
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.
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.
I'm happy that forums are making a come back. Missed visiting all my early forums, in my early Internet days.
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.
easier access to their official forum would have been great.
What's "not easy" about it? Having to click on their website instead of your own? Having to use a usernamd and password like literally every other site you log into (use a password manager)? Needing an email address (use a throwaway or something like firefox relay).
I get that people love the latest "shiny new thing" (lemmy) but that doesn't suddenly make everything else "difficult". Also for the vast majority of people, signing up to a forum is much easier than finding an lemmy instance, figuring out how to browse other instances, figuring out the layout (being cards isn't always ideal), figuring out the (sometimes slow defintely clunky) search, etc...
In this instance, having a forum that they control, in a format that the vast majority of their userbase is used to, is the way to go. They are a company after all. So providing the best experience for their users should be quite high on their priority list, not using "latest shiny thing that's still extremely niche"
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