Edited: I liked the reddit format over typical Forums (not reddit itself)

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- It's inactive. After forgetting about it for a couple of weeks I was excited to read new posts and comments BUT there's RARELY anything new or interesting here. I don't see advanced users or developers in active discourse about insightful topics here. Just look at how much attention ANY Reddit post recived and the quality of the conversations versus this forum as a whole. It's harder to reach the masses from here...

I've noticed that the vast majority of traffic to this forum are just new posts asking for help (which is kind of the point of this place). However the amount of users that respond to posts here seem to just be a handful. From my memory, it seems like the Jellyfin subreddit had a bunch more random people responding with comments to new posts. I kind of disagree with you on there not being anything new here, though I can see why you find it uninteresting. The majority of new posts here are just people asking for troubleshooting help, which most likely doesn't fall under new Jellyfin development talk that you're interested in.

There is the difference of how Reddit is set up to have an infinite scroll so you can forever scroll through posts (that you can also sort the order of), while this forum only has the "latest posts" table in the homepage that can only hold 15 topics at any point. Once your post falls out of this homepage section, most people that will fall into your post are those specifically looking for something similar. At least that's what happens with me. I only respond to things I see as new on the home page where I figure I have some capacity to help with. If I miss a topic on the home page due to me being offline, I most likely won't post in it.

- SEO ranking is really bad. Search Engines favors old Github and Reddit posts in top results even when there's new as well as relevant posts in this forum (which are rarely shown anyway despite existing for months).

I wonder how much of this is due to the Jellyfin subreddit existing. As in, if the Jellyfin subreddit were to stop existing tomorrow, would the posts in this forum appear more in searches.

I did a quick search test with random problems one could have with Jellyfin in some search engines, and what I found is that not only does the github and subreddit appear more often than this forum, but there are other countless websites as well before this forum.
One thing that I noted here is that a lot of people also post their Jellyfin problems in other communities because their issue could be with Jellyfin, or with the software/hardware they're running Jellyfin on. Things like people posting issues about Jellyfin on forums such as those for OpenMediaVault, Truenas, Unraid, Synology, etc. People search for things about Jellyfin and find all these other places. There could also be people that only stick with those forums since it's most relevant to them and their issues. Like how someone that runs Jellyfin on a Synology NAS will probably only stick to the Synology forums.

- Login is awful which often makes me give up. Trying to remember the password and doing CAPTCHA 3 times gets old real fast (since at first attempt it juat clears your credentials and tells you to complete CAPTCHA. Then 2 more times just to remember that I used Discord oAuth since error messages are misleasing, or wait was it Github?).

I wonder what your issue here is. After I created my account here, I never been asked to do a CAPTCHA (at least from what I can remember) every time I log-in to this forum. Maybe it's due to anti-spam measures for certain areas in the world?

- I rarely see users talking about Jellyfin nowadays and complaints about this forum are never ending.

Sadly, on reddit, I mostly see Jellyfin getting mentioned when people have anything negative to say about Plex. Same in youtube comments about Plex. It's been years, and online posters still keep bringing up that they'll switch over to Jellyfin when it has about the same amount of feature parity as Plex does (or enough to keep up with their use-cases at least).

Other than that, the popularity of Jellyfin still is small compared to Plex. For example, I was talking with someone while showing them my laptop. They noticed the Jellyfin app I have installed and asked me what Jellyfin is. I told them it's similar to Plex and they instantly knew what Jellyfin was.