Unfortunately I think the answer is "time." The IMDb title-specific boards probably grew slowly with the site itself, or should I say, with the instigation of the message boards themselves, as I gather that they weren't always there from the start.
I wasn't there but I imagine that at first not many people posted on specific boards there either, to begin with. That's only a guess, but it's based on how even while IMDb was still having boards, you would sometimes see that a particular movie or TV show was not getting many posts if it was new but "not buzzing."
I would see that for British stuff -- there would be a new UK show and the board would be dead.
So I think it's all about time, and which specific board too.
Also, with IMDb closing its boards still only relatively recently, and thus Moviechat still being relatively recent as an alternative to come to for specific boards, it stands to reason that the traffic isn't all just suddenly here in droves yet.
I think many people are still adjusting to the idea that they CAN still discuss a specific movie or show, and/or that they can do it here, and /or they shouldn't be put off by the fact that the archived posts obviously stopped at the "hiccup" of the end of IMDb.....but that we all have to power to take it up where it left off.
When I go to a specific board here, now, what I'm looking for is to see:
1) What people were ever saying about that movie, now that we have the archive posts here
2) If new posts are being made and I might get an active conversation -- but if not that's okay, you don't always get an interaction even on an active board.
3) Just to post my own thoughts if something is compelling me to comment; so I will either start a new thread, or respond to an existing thread or post. In those cases, I don't even think it matters that I responded to one that's years or months old, because someone coming there after me will at least see that there is a new post, and might post too.
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