2024-09-04, 08:51 AM
I understand your points and appreciate every volunteer here!
please also try to understand mine. JF is communicated not as a construction site for enthusiasts, but as a complete and usable solution for a mass audience. that is absolutely not my experience. I do volunteering myself, in very different areas, and if the gap between expectation and reality were anywhere near as wide, there'd be a lot of dead kittens in my one volunteering area, and, believe me, even more frustration than here, in my other.
I have asked direct and specific questions here, yet only received general chastising for my tone, or non-working solution.
- setting to use the catalogue offline? all my files are on a hard drive. there is just no NEED for the internet just to show me what is already here.
- how can I search by colour/BW, director, length, resolution, country or OTHER perfectly banal features?
- why, if I have an srt file in the folder, does the FILM show up twice in the gallery?
- from 539 items, only 514 are found? (it's NOT the 3 srt files). how can that be?
- set WHAT to display on main gallery: film names and posters in original language; director; colour/BW. also, can I see actual posters and not just film stills?
- how can I search for at least: film names; director; black and white; country - and get shown ALL matches?
- confirm via Enter, and not EVERYTHING TWICE?
- stop jumping to the top of the list EVERY TIME rather than staying where I was?
- see all film names and posters in their original or MY SET language? I see a POLISH poster (with polish writing) for a french film in french, jellyfin is set to english!
- see POSTERS rather than film stills? should I really have to edit EVERY FILM INDIVIDUALLY?
- set which languages not to subtitle?
given that I am NOT a software enthusiast, I feel bitter about that: IF this were your attitude here, then PLEASE, PLEASE why not communicate it from the getgo?! so that non-experts need not even start here. I enjoy libre/OS software a lot, starting with the spirit. the difference is that other OSs just "work": I've never had to resort to an online forum to get, idk, LibreOffice etc. to just work. ofc it would be different for ultra-deep functions. I also admit that I was already properly annoyed when I came here after days on days of failures. sorry if someone felt personally offended.
please also try to understand mine. JF is communicated not as a construction site for enthusiasts, but as a complete and usable solution for a mass audience. that is absolutely not my experience. I do volunteering myself, in very different areas, and if the gap between expectation and reality were anywhere near as wide, there'd be a lot of dead kittens in my one volunteering area, and, believe me, even more frustration than here, in my other.
I have asked direct and specific questions here, yet only received general chastising for my tone, or non-working solution.
- setting to use the catalogue offline? all my files are on a hard drive. there is just no NEED for the internet just to show me what is already here.
- how can I search by colour/BW, director, length, resolution, country or OTHER perfectly banal features?
- why, if I have an srt file in the folder, does the FILM show up twice in the gallery?
- from 539 items, only 514 are found? (it's NOT the 3 srt files). how can that be?
- set WHAT to display on main gallery: film names and posters in original language; director; colour/BW. also, can I see actual posters and not just film stills?
- how can I search for at least: film names; director; black and white; country - and get shown ALL matches?
- confirm via Enter, and not EVERYTHING TWICE?
- stop jumping to the top of the list EVERY TIME rather than staying where I was?
- see all film names and posters in their original or MY SET language? I see a POLISH poster (with polish writing) for a french film in french, jellyfin is set to english!
- see POSTERS rather than film stills? should I really have to edit EVERY FILM INDIVIDUALLY?
- set which languages not to subtitle?
given that I am NOT a software enthusiast, I feel bitter about that: IF this were your attitude here, then PLEASE, PLEASE why not communicate it from the getgo?! so that non-experts need not even start here. I enjoy libre/OS software a lot, starting with the spirit. the difference is that other OSs just "work": I've never had to resort to an online forum to get, idk, LibreOffice etc. to just work. ofc it would be different for ultra-deep functions. I also admit that I was already properly annoyed when I came here after days on days of failures. sorry if someone felt personally offended.