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They are closing IMDB forums for YOU


IMPORTANT: 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.

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.

How nice of them.

Cover up: http://www.geocities.ws/rotafan/video.html (in short: 7:23 and 18:43)

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instead of thinking of ways that they could improve the forums they just decide to delete them. because somehow that will be better than having forums that some people have some bad experiences with?
if other companies used that mentality then we'd have bus routes being dropped after complaints of them being late and restaurants closing down following complaints of being sold out of a customers favourite dessert

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I know! It's INSANE! There is NO other message board with a separate message board for each TV show & movie! Jesus

They should just make some changes WITHOUT CLOSING!!

Jesus NEVER existed! He is Judeo Christian MYTH!

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Anything but this. Can't IMDb employ some mods and turn this place around instead of outright deleting history?

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

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It's a shame they aren't willing to archive the site. Just outright deleting it seems extreme. Why don't they just nuke the forums from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.

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They've been deleting chunks of it for years, you just dont notice till you
go look for something and then say, " HEY THEY'VE BEEN DELETING S#!T!"

Bummer. All of this totally blows.

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Pffft, my suspension of disbelief has higher standards than that.

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Welcome to THIS board and IMDB v2.0 then and IMDBArchive!

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It's a bunch of bunk...

I discuss the real reasons for them closing the boards on IMDb's replacement:

http://www.famefora.com/thread-18.html

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They aren't closing them for ME. They don't care about any of us, just like the real world. The people in charge are the only ones that get anything out of the business.



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