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IMDb Message Boards closing down on February 20

posted 8 years ago by elanor-3
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This message appeared today (about an hour ago) on all message boards I checked:

IMDb Message Boards Announcement

IMDb is the world’s most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content. As part of our ongoing effort to continually evaluate and enhance the customer experience on IMDb, we have decided to disable IMDb’s message boards on February 20, 2017. This includes the Private Message system. After in-depth discussion and examination, we have concluded that IMDb’s message boards are no longer providing a positive, useful experience for the vast majority of our more than 250 million monthly users worldwide. The decision to retire a long-standing feature was made only after careful consideration and was based on data and traffic.

Increasingly, IMDb customers have migrated to IMDb’s social media accounts as the primary place they choose to post comments and communicate with IMDb’s editors and one another. IMDb’s Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/imdb) and official Twitter account (https://twitter.com/imdb) have an audience of more than 10 million engaged fans. IMDb also maintains official accounts on Snapchat (https://www.snapchat.com/add/imdblive), Pinterest (https://www.pinterest.com/imdbofficial/), YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/imdb), and Tumblr (http://imdb.tumblr.com/).

Because IMDb’s message boards continue to be utilized by a small but passionate community of IMDb users, we announced our decision to disable our message boards on February 3, 2017 but will leave them open for two additional weeks so that users will have ample time to archive any message board content they’d like to keep for personal use. During this two-week transition period, which concludes on February 19, 2017, IMDb message board users can exchange contact information with any other board users they would like to remain in communication with (since once we shut down the IMDb message boards, users will no longer be able to send personal messages to one another). We regret any disappointment or frustration IMDb message board users may experience as a result of this decision.

IMDb is passionately committed to providing innovative ways for our hundreds of millions of users to engage and communicate with one another. We will continue to enhance our current offerings and launch new features in 2017 and beyond that will help our customers communicate and express themselves in meaningful ways while leveraging emerging technologies and opportunities.

I really enjoyed our discussions and got lots of information as well as interesting tips.
Good-bye to you all and thank you!

At this moment, I still hope this decision will be repealed. Remember the emoticons?

--- each brain develops its own preferences  ---

[–] zelena33 8 years ago

Wow. I hate when they do this kind of thing.

Another forum out there to keep the discussion going? Sitenoise? Any ideas? I think you said you use letterboxd.

I have always appreciated the great crowd here and the civility of the discourse, which you don't find on most internet forums with more anonymous users! Where to next?

[–] sitenoise 8 years ago

😭

There's only five or ten of us here but it still feels like a party. I'm surprised things lasted this long. Years ago when IMDb turned over their commenting system to FaceBunk, I assumed the message boards would soon follow.

Letterboxd doesn't have a "lounge", so to speak (or PMs). I spend a lot more time there than I do here, but it's of the "crawling around" variety. Interactivity is pretty much one-to-one. I have this anal thing about wanting access to histories, making lists, which isn't much of a need for others here at IMDb, so it works well for me, probably not so much for others.

!!IT WOULD BE PERFECT FOR EBO!! (and in turn wonderful for many of us)

Oops. Did I say that out loud?

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I'm sitenoise. I'm all over the internet. If any of you lovely people want to find me, it's pretty easy. I thought about suggesting a thread where we could all post contact info, but if folks don't already have a big fat public face on the internets they probably don't want to start now.

This is heartbreaking news 😢

[–] ebossert 8 years ago

This stinks.

YouTube Asian Movie Review Channel
https://www.youtube.com/user/anticlimacus100

[–] Buxfilms 8 years ago

Sad news, but over the years less and less people have been using it in general and more and more people use it to spam and troll. Its been great sharing our films with each other and our experiences and it wont be forgotten. Thanks all. Ed

My foreign film list http://www.imdb.com/list/z86jRjauDwE/

[–] mjf314 8 years ago

What's the best place to talk about Asian movies (or dramas)? Which forums are all of you members of?

Sometimes I talk about Asian movies on http://www.icmforum.com/. Asian movie discussion is mostly mixed in with discussion about other movies, but you can make a thread about Asian movies if you want. There are movie-watching challenges each month, and occasionally they focus on specific Asian countries. They also had a "favorite Japanese movies" poll a few years ago (https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/icm+forums+favorite+japanese+movies/rokp/).

Sometimes I use http://mydramalist.com/ (a website about Asian movies and dramas), but I haven't spent much time on their forum, so I don't know if it's a good forum.

If anyone wants to contact me after the IMDb forum closes, you can contact me at either https://www.icheckmovies.com/profiles/mjf314/ or http://www.icmforum.com/profile/173550/.

[–] Seth_Rogue_One 8 years ago

Made a petition, almost a 1000 signatures in 6 hours...

https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/petition-to-keep-the-imdb-messageboards-going#

[–] zelena33 8 years ago

thanks for posting! Would be nice if they change heart. ✌

[–] Seth_Rogue_One 8 years ago

No problems... Almost 5000 signatures now, which is the current signature goal but I can change that at any time and people can still go over that amount.

Feel free to spread the word around other boards and twitter and stuff of that nature.

https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/petition-to-keep-the-imdb-messageboards-going#