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ALERT!!! IMBD msg Boards shutting down Feb 20th


Read notice below. IMBD rationalizes shutting down message boards that only a small group participates as most have migrated to other social media (Facebook, twitter, etc). While in theory this is also true in practice. However, even with my musical enthusiast Facebook friends, the discussions on this topic do not have the same depth and quality as what I find here. Granted, there is little activity here and I only post / respond periodically throughout the year. However, when I do, it is very personally fulfilling. I do check on this boards often even though I don't always respond. I feel many are in the same position as myself. I am not sure what the solution is, but I am asking you to post your ideas in the next week. The best solution I can think of is to set up a Facebook group page with the regulars here as the initial members. Any other ideas or ideas to expand on this one? I would be willing to set up a Facebook group page and be an administrator, post the FB GROUP name HERE, then we can all find each other by joining. If any archival msgs needs to be saved and transferred to the FB site... we can discuss and do that as well as a group / or individually. Thoughts! Below is the announcement from IMDB:

IMDb Message Boards Announcement

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.

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The only free time I have for IMDB is down time at work - and we cannot get Facebook here.... so it's not going to do me any good... but I hope you can get some others on board!
It's breaking my heart to know these boards are going away. I have enjoyed them so much. I will be lost without them.






Just a guy in Texas who loves movies. 

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I set up a Facebook group page that is now open on Facebook. Feel free to join. It would be great if all here (mainly 10-15 that responded in the last month) joined. It is called:
Music Theatre and Film. Link below:

https://m.facebook.com/Music-Theatre-and-Film-1823521431222113/

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