I Miss the Community

[Efficient_Good_5784]

why not just pass the ownership torch to members who want the subreddit?

Since the main devs don't want to bother keeping up with the subreddit, I would asume they don't want the hassle of monitoring a 3rd party's method of maintaining the subreddit.

Assuming this, this isn't an issue on other Jellyfin related subreddits because there's a clear distinction it's not being run by the offical group behind Jellyfin.

Also, I think there's a misconception in this thread about the visibility of this forum. It takes time for an online resource to grow. The major problem here is that reddit being the online giant it is, most of Jellyfin's growth happened there. It's obvious searching up Jellyfin on a search engine will lead to reddit than to here since search engines look for things with more traction. As in, Jellyfin's problem is that they didn't make the move sooner.

To prove my point, let's take the Truenas online community. Truenas has a community forum literally almost exactly like this one. They also run a subreddit. Howerver, searching up anything about Truenas on a search engine points way more to their forum than to reddit in my experience. It even gets to the point where if I want to majorly find reddit posts about truenas problems, I have to type in "reddit" somewhere in the search querry to get the subreddit to appear in searches.

Another example is Emby. Emby has a subreddit, and a forum too. If you look at their subreddit, it's practically dead. Literally most search hits brings you to their own forums instead to their subreddit. You would think Emby is a dying piece of software going off of their subreddit interaction, but everyone there goes to their forums.

Bringing it back to Jellyfin, I would assume as this forum gets bigger, more search results will start leading back to here. Also, though I won't exactly say this forum has the best searching system, reddit honestly is terrible with searching for info. If you don't appear exactly on the day when the post was made, you're most likely to ignore it. If you need to find a past post that you don't have bookmarked, it gets really hard if the post isn't popular, or you'll need to figure out exact words to use in search queries.

You mainly get interaction for repeat questions from users. It seems the vast body of reddit users don't bothers to search for past posts on any subreddit. You're at the mercy of how good a search engine is to search through reddit. If a new user doesn't find the post(s) that answers their questions, off they go making a repeat post that was already answered, but they were unsucessful in finding through google or bing.

Though I will agree that reddit had more interaction as a social media platform. This forum doesn't really get that as it's treated as a support forum (something which reddit isn't really suited for). As such, most people aren't immediately starting off-topic posts as you would find on the subreddit. Jellyfin's discord/matrix server does have more users talking about off topic conversations however.