Dim needs a new release!

[julianandrews]

The current release is almost a year old, and isn't providing a great experience.

I downloaded the release, ran it, and added a TV library and it auto matched maybe 10% of my shows. I went to manually match shows, and I had over 5000 unmatched files in folders name like "Season 2" with dozens of shows all clumped together. I started the manual matching process and it seemed to work on some shows, but other times failed silently. I went to file an issue and realized how old the code I was running was.

Running on the current version I had only 260 unmatched files, and all of those I understand why they didn't match.

Dim looks like a fantastic program. I've used Plex and Jellyfin, and neither comes close in terms of performance and smoothness, but the current release really isn't doing it justice!

[vgarleanu]

It does indeed! Dim has come a long way since the last release. The reason there isn't a new release is because we've added some new features but they lack polish, not to mention that we have a improved scanner which 10x's the scanners performance or so.

At the moment all of our resources are focused on the android and ios app, however we are close to getting over the hardest technical challenges there and will be able to focus on polishing the webui.

There will be a new anniversary release alongside a beta release of the mobile apps soon!

EDIT: Ok it might take a likkle longer :)

[SleeperSmith]

@julianandrews have you considered using the docker release? the :dev tag seems to be only 3 months behind (not that i know where it is on the release).

That as opposed to the bin release which seems to be over 2 years old at this point.

@vgarleanu should we stay away from the :master tag on the container?

[julianandrews]

@SleeperSmith It's good to know the docker image is more up to date. For my purposes, I'm fine with just compiling from source, and I've already got that set up and working.

I filed an issue because I suspect a lot of people wandering into the project will try downloading the latest release like I did, and the experience isn't great!

The other reason more recent releases would be nice is that it lets people know when there's a version that's expected to be tested and functional. I'm not really keen to install a docker image tagged dev for a project that I'm not actively working on - I'd expect to to just break from time to time.