Damn Lemmy users are no different from Reddit. Don’t read anything. Take anything you did read out of context. Be sure to rage post your own ignorance so we can all read about it.

plans to support ad-supported online media streams

Why are they saying it like it’s something good and exciting?

rewriting the whole core of VLC for the 4.0 release which will see a new interface

Where have we see it before? It’s basically the classic scenario where popular software/service makes a complete chnage of design nobody asked for and it fails miserably. I recommend everyone to make a backup of the installer of the last version before this release…

Stick a fork in it, it’s done.