Sad misplaced people.....

I know what you mean! Keep seeing all of these mini-communities that sprung up on individual boards and their sad goodbyes. And I yell at the screen "It's all still here. Come baaaaaack!!!"

I actually found this place through hackernews, having specifically searched to see if anyone had attempted what Jim accomplished -- an archive of the imdb boards.

I found it via a quick Google search, but it was still months after the shutdown.

I just followed the crowd at chow time

I learned about this site while still at IMDB, and was fortunate enough to frequent threads where the link was dropped, along with some other sites.

I recall reading all of the sad goodbye threads, and then creating a post telling these very people of a site that contained almost all of the complete archives, and all that they had to do was to meet up there the next day, and carry on as usual. No one replied to those threads, and suspect that not many of them read them either, because almost none of them showed up. I grew frustrated and just faced palmed it, and hoped for the best.

In the Final Days I was mostly posting on the Politics board..which was primarily a CESSPOOL, by the way! But there were a FEW of us who were sane there...and one of them, who I actually didn't even know that well, pm-ed me something like "I'll miss your commentary, but there's this new site opening up I hope I'll see you at."

They didn't want to put it on the main boards were the swine would see it. I think someone had pm-ed the moviechat link to her in the same way.

I was extremely flattered, and I'm very grateful they tipped me off : ) And it was great to be able to stumble over here immediately, reeling from the shock of old boards closing a day early.
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I don't remember how I found this board. I just know I required a board to have individual boards for each film/actor/director/key grip, and this board fit the bill. I've spent, maybe, a grand total of fifteen minutes combined on the plethora of alternative sites.

I think I saw a post from Jim on the IMDb Politics board. Unfortunately many users had already settled in to the countless other boards as Jim was a bit late getting in to the game.

I was on the final chapter boards before they close them.One of the members....I don't recall his name...posts a link with this site and that's how I joined here😉