r/Nuvio • u/Fluffy_Wafer_9212 • 1h ago
General The Nuvio community is very confusing and I wish it was better
Like a lot of people, I'm someone that just moved from Stremio to Nuvio recently
At first glance, I loved Nuvio a lot and I really was happy with the funky features that I was welcomed with like multi-profiles and intro auto skipping. However the way I feel towards this app quickly changed once I started digging more into how I can install it into my LG TV, etc.
I found the official webOS app a bit laggy, so I tried to look for solutions for that and this led me to this subreddit
The first thing you see once you hop into this subreddit is posts? (I mean yeah that's obvious), but they're really unclear
For example I see a lot of strangers posting on here like they're official people related to Nuvio officially, but I click on the post and dun dun dunn, they're just a random who made a fork and is apparently talking like they mean the original app that I installed from the official website
I'm not meaning to be against the forks, I mean I'm a developer myself and god I love the world of open source and how people can maintain forks of things
However I mostly see forks of projects when a project completely dies or decides to "change license" so another group of people decide to keep it cool and maintain the cooler version of it
But for Nuvio, why?? why are there so many forks for a project that began recently? I just feel that people are misunderstanding the purpose of forks unless the owners of the official app hate contribution and don't like accepting pull requests
I see a lot of bugs on the official apps and I don't get why contributors don't submit their bug fixes as pull requests instead of forking the app entirely and confusing the hell out of people because they won't know which app to continue using, especially with how fast a lot of forks die
I really love Nuvio but I wish it was better at this point. If it keeps going like this I feel that it'll never get better and I wish they can put strict guidelines for these things so we can sort them out
