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

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Maybe give it more than a few minutes to settle in? Every time an interface changes, people complain. And, then adapt and can't see how they lived with it before.

I get it, its just easier having other support forums right there, ie unraid/homelabs/datahoarders etc etc and to be able to cross post. We went from forums to reddit / discord and then primary back to forums here. I'll support jellyfin until i die I just feel like theres better opporutnities to create our own reddit format vs a traditional forum

Anyone is free to create a community led space on whatever site they desire. You're welcome to create a jellyfin forum on reddit or anywhere else, it just won't be an official communication space for the project. Team members will not troubleshoot there and announcements will not be posted there for discussion.

What you are seeing as a strength here--namely cross pollination with a number of other conceptually adjacent spaces--is actually something that I personally was looking to get away from. I had stopped participating on the subreddit for some time already simply because I didn't agree with some of the common recommendations that such a community was frequently providing to jellyfin users. Moving to our own forum means we have full control over the space, and the culture here is more isolated from the larger self-hosting community. I think that's by design. I think a lot of the community, and the development team, already thought that there had been a significant drop off in terms of quality on the subreddit as the jellyfin project has grown. And that was true even before reddit, as a site, started acting as they have more recently. It was just the last straw.

In any case, other points of contact, including the much more reddit-like Lemmy instance, also exist already. You're welcome to use them. But I do not imagine that the team would be particularly interested in moving the official enduring point of contact back to reddit any time in the foreseeable future.