I'm home-based on TMDb (but like now and then also visiting here, for the general discussion topics). My favourite genres are Silent and Pre-Code eras films; on TMDb I'm steadily posting on boards for movies of those eras, and also on a number of later (1930s through 1950s) films' boards, and certain t.v. series', and certain actors'/actresses' boards. It all takes time, and TMDb users started just three weeks ago with completely empty boards, and many proactive users there are actively daily significantly working on remedying the initial deficit. So check back in there, from time to time, and the expanse of what vintage movies, and their stars, and t.v. series, are being posted about will steadily grow, and the actual discussions expand. It's all an active work currently and ongoingly in progress.
TMDb continues to gain more new members every day (also, presumably, does Movie Chat), so more new users chime in, and create new threads, all the time. It takes a lot of ongoing work and time to go from zero to 100. But daily things do grow and grow. Here they also do. But I'm making this reply to this thread's OP, who stated that posting about old titles isn't happening on TMDb. It truly is. At least it has been since during the last 2-1/2 weeks (and particularly since during the last couple of weeks - and especially during the last week). Admittedly a majority of TMDb posting so far continues to be regarding current and recent years movies, t.v. series, and stars. But I'm more and more discovering more TMDb members who clearly are - like myself - seriously interested in the old b&w Classic films.
Realize that this post is entirely nicely and pleasantly meant, and in no way hostilely or aggressively intended: I come fully in peace. :) If you're not interested in anything I've mentioned about TMDb, that's fine, and all's well and good. We're all in this IMDb exile situation together - even if not all home-based in the same place. We all have options; the dust hasn't entirely finished settling yet, and we don't know what the coming months may hold. May IMDb re-introduce archived boards content to their site and demand that it be removed from the sites presently posting it? If so, will all of your new movies/t.v./stars posting go out the window at that time? Where would that leave Movie Chat, if so? I invite you to please keep a truly open mind. I think TMDb and Movie Chat members, and our two individual sites, seem to probably have the most generally in common regarding what we're about and what we want of all the various sites alternatives to IMDb. I think we mutually view one another as friend, not foe - as healthy competition, not as one another's dastardly nemesis. BOTH sites are very good, credible, and pleasant places to be. I very much like both sites. For me, TMDb simply fits my needs by far best.
I don't know why, but though I'm definitely signed up to receive Movie Chat reply notifications, I never, ever do receive any. So if anyone responds to this, realize I won't at all be informed via notification e-mail, therefore that it may be quite some time before I eventually realize your response was posted.
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Catbookss (13664)
7 years ago
Nice post, from someone who's made TMDb their main home, and visits here :)
Your post came off in no way as hostile, aggressive, or competitive, only as explaining your preference and why, and updating some info. There have been several discussions here about other sites, and MC, just some comparisons and explaining why someone prefers one or the other, and what each has to offer. I completely agree that there's absolutely no reason for any alternative site to regard another as nemesis or foe or anything like that (and as far as I know, neither MC or tMDb's owners have done anything like that).
Some people are going to prefer one site over another (even outside of tMDb and MC), and that's just fine.
The owner of tMDb did something to tweak the boards a week or more ago so I can no longer see the first inch or two of any thread names or the posts in it, so I stopped visiting for that reason. Probably just a browser issue, but since I use Safari for everything, and I don't feel like using another one just to visit tMDb, it's another deterrent for me now, even to visit :/. I would like to visit there, at least occasionally. Just don't feel like launching another browser only to do so.
Don't know why you're not getting the email notifications. I've received them from the beginning. There was only a day or two when they didn't arrive. Have you checked your spam folder?
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genplant29 (89)
7 years ago
Hi, Cat! Yes: I still never receive e-mail notifications. And I've definitely even reset my mail settings here, thinking that maybe if I'd unclick the receive e-mail notifications option, then re-click it, then resave, it would maybe remedy the situation. But it didn't. And I even tried doing that with a complete log-out, then log back in, in the middle of the process. Again/still, no luck. (Yes: I regularly check my spam folder, and no Movie Chat notification e-mails have gone there.)
Thanks for "getting" my post, above, and how it was meant. I appreciate that, as I hoped that's how it would be correctly taken, but wasn't sure that it would be. As someone once told me, sometimes perception is more relevant and important than actuality, if you know what you meant, and how it was meant to be taken, but the audience takes it some entirely different other way, and is convinced that how THEY took your words was DEFINITELY how you meant them, whether you insist and swear on your life to otherwise or not. lol. So I'm glad that what I wrote was "got" as intended. :)
I'm not sure what you're referring to in your 4th paragraph above, as I've had no issue with cut-off parts of boards/pages, and how everything appeared three weeks ago is still how it does, for me. I'm on a desktop computer, and don't know whether accessing TMDb via a device of any other kind might have a different look. Consider popping back by TMDb sometime in the coming days, just to check, and perhaps the issue you mentioned in your paragraph 4 may now be resolved. I daily glance over all the new Technical Support forum threads there, and don't recall seeing the sort of issue mentioned there that you refer to. I have a feeling that it's probably been resolved, since it would probably have an active forum thread if it weren't.
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Catbookss (13664)
7 years ago
Hi Gen!
I greatly appreciate your gentle and kind evaluation of both sites, and so forth. Very nice to hear :)
I don't know what the problem is with the notifications here. Did you get a notification when I responded to your post? You responded fairly quickly, so it seems you may have gotten one.
I've gotten the notifications from the beginning, although granted I only signed up perhaps two weeks after this site opened, and I believe getting notifications was the default then, but isn't now (no idea when that started). If you unclicked and reclicked, and then saved, getting notifications, I have no idea what the problem is. For me it's worked great right from the beginning, except for a day or so recently when I received no notifications at all. I figured it was a glitch of some kind.
My sense is that the default, to begin with, is that notifications were sent, and sometime after that you had to opt in, but as you've already opted in, I have no idea what the problem is. You can write directly to Jim @ [email protected] and see what the problem is. Jim is very accessible and responsive, in my experience, as well may be the owner of tMDb. I have no personal experience of the owner of tMDb, but you may well and he, or she, may well be equally responsive :)
Absolutely, I get your post, and much appreciate it. There really is no reason for any "board wars." We've all felt displaced and it's not an easy time, especially if we were a regular poster on any of the boards. IMDB was like a daily home for many of us. Even those who were lurkers now feel the loss. I'm happy to see many of them delurking here, and probably doing the same over there.
I'm assuming you mean you're not seeing a problem with the layout of tMDb on your browser, as I am. Someone here posted they were having a problem seeing this site using Chrome, which I haven't used to access it, because Safari is my preferred preference. I'm not criticizing tMDb, only saying for me viewing it is a problem because I can't view the first 1.5 inches of any thread or posts. This may be cleared up if I used a second browser (Chrome, for instance), but I haven't tried and don't, personally, have any compelling reason to try, because I use Safari for everything else, without any problem. I too am on a desktop. I will give tMDb another try, even though I feel as at home here as you do there. Peace, and thanks for your kind and well-thought-out post :)
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genplant29 (89)
7 years ago
It's 5:19a.m. here now, and I am sooo exhausted. If you hear a loud thump, know that it's my head crashing atop the desk as I fall fast asleep sitting up. lol ;)
No notification e-mail was received about your new response post above. But the red bell did show I had gotten two messages, which yours was one of them. Curiously, the other week, when I first signed up for notifications, I did, on solely that one day, received two automatic notification e-mails. But those were the only, and the final two, ever. Yet the bell lights up red when someone has responded. I never know if there's a reply unless I actively go onto Movie Chat and see the red bell (and need to be actively logged in). When I am actively on a thread, I proactively look for responses to my comments, so usually respond by sight, even before I ever get around to noticing whether the bell has turned red.
Time for me to catch some serious zzzz's now. I'm still wondering how the East Coast winter storm is going to effect my area. Currently there's heavy rain, though may wind up changing over to snow. I'm in the MidAtlantic region, which depending on portion thereof determines whether rain or snow will predominate.
On that note, I bid you adieu until we meet again, hopefully sometime soon, my friend. :)
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Catbookss (13664)
7 years ago
Hi again Gen, it's earlier here, but I'm pretty tired myself, so there may be two loud thumps, one not too long after the other.
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Zzzzz.
Uh, whut?
You're probably sound asleep by now, while I'm only mostly comatose, yet close to being sound asleep myself. Soon, soon.
Anyway, I can't figure out why you're not getting the email notifications here, and it's even more mystifying that the red bell shows you that you've gotten responses, yet no email notification (I thought they were related).
I never signed up for the notifications, but have received them ever since Jim posted that they were instigated here. Since I like them, I've never opted out, or changed anything in my preferences since I arrived and have, unfortunately, no help or explanation for your experience here.
At least the bell is working right for you (as is mine), and I wish I could help you with the notifications.
Time for me to catch some real zzzs as well, and may you make it through the wind and snow all right :)
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kspkaps (37)
7 years ago
Cat, as to your problem regarding the following:
"The owner of tMDb did something to tweak the boards a week or more ago so I can no longer see the first inch or two of any thread names or the posts in it, so I stopped visiting for that reason."
Strange? I also use Safari on an iPad. I'm not having the problem you are seeing (or not seeing). I wish I had an answer for you.
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