If the IMDb message boards were reinstated

Yeah. I'd go back. The IMDb message boards were the place to discuss film and television.

As someone who isn't very mainstream, it was always particularly useful. Of course, it was only ever a small percentage of IMDb users who wanted to talk about the kind of films I happen to enjoy... but because everyone went there, the raw numbers meant you could always find like-minded people to talk about your own niche interests.

Chances of stumbling across someone who has seen the films of, I dunno, Jacques Rivette in real life? Next to zero. Chances of finding them on the IMDb message boards? Virtual certainty.

That made it valuable. That's why I still miss it.

It depends on how they implemented it, but most likely, I would hang out on both.

Possibly because of the numbers, but we really need to get those numbers over here.

If people have other accounts on Reddit, for example, they need to drag people over here, we need a critical mass of people.

Quality people too, like thoughtful and insightful cineasts, not more TLDR retards and obnoxious trolls like Kowalski who try to spoil as many boards as they can with narcissistic all-caps drivel everywhere.

R/Truefilm on Reddit has the kind of minds we need over here.

I'd do both. There was an IMDb message board community for a British period drama I was a part of for a while. The members were so tightly knit that when one of the Scottish members unexpectedly passed away, several members from around the world flew to her funeral. They also scheduled meet-ups that members would also travel from far to attend. When the boards were announced to be on the chopping block, there was a horrible sadness over the impending lost connection. I'm not sure they ever found another place to land intact with each other.

I'll forever loathe the person/people who destroyed the IMDb boards. They threw the baby (individual movie and TV show boards that were veritable archives) out with the bathwater (Politics and other free-for-all boards that the mods didn't want to deal with anymore).

No.

I cannot see them having the same level of freedom of speech as this board has.

I can not say a lot about IMDb, I only know what I have read here about it. However, I guess I would do both.

Yes, I would go back to IMDb for activity alone. They had millions of posters from allover the world. I love MovieChat but we just don't have the volume of IMDb.

I guess one of the reasons I started this thread was to see if MovieChat could survive IMDb coming back. It would be kind of like a little stream flowing back into a big ocean and everyone being separated. I hope people would consider doing both.