It's a really great place for communication but most movies barely get any traffic unless they are involved in some sort of controversy. And it's sad, there is so much we could talk about and analyze there are just not that many users on here.
shareYes. I’m surprised not many people sit here. Sometimes it feels like its the same few people. I keep bumping in them.
When its such good place to discuss all movies and tv shows. Are there place anywhere else to read people opinions? Or do people just stopped discussing shows. I know reddit has pages. But some shows dont get many comments there too.
I want to watch movie/ show and see what other people think of it. Sometimes even comments under trailers and reviews on Youtue are more helpful.
Just recommend this site whenever you see people who like to talk about movies and shows. Put link, say its a good site. Maybe some people would join.
I feel like many people simply dont know about its existence.
I do that sometimes and it used to work, but it seems like that site's growth majorly slowed down this year. It used to be more dynamic.
shareIMDb was great because there were always a bunch of people who would post and reply about even the most obscure movies or shows. And there were some damn funny trolls. The crappy trolls never bothered me because I really am not affected by the opinions of anonymous people on an internet message board.
shareYep. I learned so much reading old and new posts from people who had first-hand knowledge or theories about popular and obscure movies and shows. And possibly my favorite aspect: movies I'd likely never have heard of discovered because one or two users were passionate enough about them to mention them. Mostly spent time in the horror board and individual film boards.
And agreed, the only trolls who really bothered me were the ones who deliberately spoiled movies, especially in the subject lines. The rest were entertaining or ignorable.
Yes. A lot of the boards are basically dead. Even new/ongoing shows & new movies don't get that many post if any.
shareI wonder if "social media" is just inherently flawed
that is....the more people who know about a site, the more chance there is for trolls n crap
website is small
people wish more people went on the website
website grows
website has more users inc trolls
website becomes unmanageable (un moderateable)
website closes
sequence begins again
Yeah I do, sometimes questions go completely unanswered.
How many members does this place have anyway? Does anyone know?
I collected these stats about active users a year ago. There could be ten times more registered users lurking around. Someone guessed 10k registered users.
day ~270
week ~670
month ~1200
year 3500 estimated
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Those 670 weekly posters are spread over ~1100 boards so activity per board is low.
I wish it was more popular with movie fans, filmbuffs and cinephiles, but no more poltical know-nothings with unearned certitude.
sharePages of politicians should not be among "trending" on first pages. Let them live in Political section.
So tired of Trump and Biden there. Its site about movies.
It was cool back on the IMDb boards that if you asked a question you could log in two days later and have 5 or 10 replies like clockwork.
Some posts on this site go unreplied, that never happened to me back on IMDb (I wasn't as active on there as I am here though, so could be sampling bias).
The only downside to becoming more popular is the userbase would become more diluted. There are several known personalities on here, that didn't occur for me back on IMDb, I never connected with another user on a nearly personal level. It was just an endless stream of different usernames and random internet users. Smaller communities are more intimate.
The other possibility would be a greater influx of politically motivated posts which would dwarf the movie discussions, this is already something of a problem on this site (and the internet as a whole), it could get even worse if the wrong sorts of users migrated here.
>The other possibility would be a greater influx of politically motivated posts which would dwarf the movie discussions, this is already something of a problem on this site (and the internet as a whole), it could get even worse if the wrong sorts of users migrated here.
Lmao, yeah because moviechat doesn't have that problem right now lol
This place is already completely overloaded with partisans to the point where growing it wouldn't change anything