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

[Venson]

My 2 cents about this forum:

- 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...

- 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).

- Markdown is annoying to work with. It's slow, it's not intuitive and scaling has much to be desired with ultrawide monitors.

- Notifications are non-existent. They're missing in Profile CP and sometimes I might get a email notification if I'm lucky (maybe it's working poorly because I've used oAuth?).

- 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?).

- The theme of this forum is boring. It reminds me of 2013 when everyone was using Xenforo and Enjin.. I just want to fall asleep after reading a few posts.

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

- If you don't use RSS, you'll likeky to never get notified about new interesting posts. Reddit's frontpage was perfect for organizing multiple communities into one place.

- Just look how active developers, homelab users and casual end-users used to be in Jellyfin's Subreddit. I feel like developers are rarely active if ever here. There's clearly lack of interest in this forum and I don't see a reason it would change any time soon. I LOVE JELLYFIN but not forum.

Restricting the community to this forum is a massive step backwards.

Yes, Reddit's CEO sucks and Lemmy website is even worse.

Nonetheless Reddit is still the best place for discourse.

Agreed but not to the reddit part. I really dislike reddit for proper discourse but yes the forum is a pain to work with. On the other hand, which forum software that is still a Forum and not another social hub that is free and open source and offers better usability is out there?