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IMBD is disabling the boards 2/20

posted 8 years ago by kathykato
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I'm sure you all received this message, as well. Bummer.

"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."

[–] ktcat88 8 years ago

This is so sad! I don't post much but I read imdb boards every day. GG is my most frequented board, I know most of you guys by screen name. I'll miss reading all your posts so much :(

[–] FlyingTampon 8 years ago

seems like all the message boards/forums from my teen years have all closed down, been discontinued, etc. I've been on here for 15 years 😨😨😨 and I'm 29!

[–] yeamf-93422 8 years ago

Yeah, mine too. I started posting on the Pretty Little Liars boards in 2011 when I was 17. Honestly, people's reviews and questions and threads on these boards were much more influential than anything else. I enjoyed reading fan theories on the PLL board about who they thought A would turn out to be; enjoyed reading explanations about movies like Persona and Donnie Darko written by fans. I think IMDB contributed to so many people's love of film. It definitely did so for me.

But I sort of understand why this is happening. Especially now! With Americans basically divided in two and bickering at each other all the time. I had to delete my beloved account of 5 years because a troll on anther tv show's message board was harassing me. Why? Because I'm a liberal! That person went through my entire posting history and replied to all of my replies calling me names like special snowflake, etc.  Seriously, That person is dangerous. Someone who spends days going through thousands of posts just to bully someone is dangerous to humanity.

IMDB sadly has a lot of those around. I got sympathetic messages from other users, who were also attacked by that same person. No matter how many times we reported him, he kept coming back, so everyone just deleted their accounts,and never returned to those boards with new accounts. I think IMDB realized that their system doesn't work with these types of dangerous trolls. I mean the type with no life. So I get why this is happening...

It doesn't make it any less sucky, though.

[–] Jillian-533 8 years ago

Here is another site, which is titled IMDb v2,0! Check it out, it is growing fast 

http://imdb2.freeforums.net/

[–] jkm2010 8 years ago

This is really sad. :(

-Carry on.-

[–] melaniep-73085 8 years ago

Has anyone been on the Full House board people are mean there that's why I stopped posting there I mostly posted on Gilmore Girls, Friends, One Tree Hill boards.