Yeah I suppose, you just gotta pick one thing and then it does the rest, or that’s what they want probs
sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
UI’s for movie streaming services are not designed to help you find something to watch. They are designed to keep you “engaged”, which means in the platform and not realizing that the pool of actually interesting things is about as deep as a puddle. Everything about streaming sites’ design is user hostile and this is a classic example of that.
joeljoelle@piefed.blahaj.zone 11 hours ago
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
Isn’t Jellyfin the same design as all the streaming platform and they have nothing to gain for keeping you engaged?
yakko@feddit.uk 10 hours ago
Yeah but they don’t have highly paid UX design teams, so they’re probably just copying design choices on the basis that they’re trying to offer people a similar experience they can own.
unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml 8 hours ago
Also, it’s FOSS so you can always make your own skin/theme.
darkwing_duck@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
Almost, but it has movie titles under the poster/cover and usually pulls the actual movie covers.
Once you click into it, it gives a shitton of detail about the movie.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
Is this not the case with netflix/hbo? Sorry i never actually used any streaming service before other than Jellyfin so i don’t understand what is the issue here
loutr@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
Two things off the top of my head:
Jellyfin displays ratings from RT (and opencritic maybe?), while Netflix has stopped displaying their own user ratings years ago.
Jellyfin displays the full cast and crew. When you click an actor, director,… it shows you other media where they appear, even individual episodes. Netflix has none of that.
GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
So does Netflix etc……
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 9 hours ago
Jellyfin has like six different view types to pick from, including one that doesn’t even show images. And almost all the others show the title always visible below the preview image.
PatrickYaa@feddit.org 9 hours ago
Jellyfin a) only has the content you feed it, so you already have some knowledge about it and b) you can expand it with plugins and make the design however you like it.
AbsolutelyClawless@piefed.social 8 hours ago
Everything others said, plus you can choose your client. For example, I use VoidTV for Jellyfin on my TV which offers a different design (though I use it because it’s the only Jellyfin client where DD video+audio work).