Has moviechat become the default best alternative since IMDb shut down their boards? - General Discussion Discussion

... he asks the people whom chose this place.

My answer: yes

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[–] aavfreak (2975) 2 years ago

"... he asks the people whom chose this place."

LOL, fair play. I do so with the assumption that at least some users will have split their time with another alternative or at least have some experience elsewhere.

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[–] AnubisRaydeen (7897) 2 years ago

:)

I've heard a few here speak of other places they frequent but they usually say they prefer this place over them. Comfy here, right?

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[–] aavfreak (2975) 2 years ago

This feels like home. My post count may not be high compared to other users, but at 1400 posts obviously I've spent some effort here. LOL

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[–] samoanjoes (52959) 2 years ago

I didn't choose this place, this place chose me.

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[–] aavfreak (2975) 2 years ago

I wish we could post embedded reaction gifs here. :)

https://tenor.com/view/leonardo-dicaprio-toast-cheers-champagne-gif-12045649

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[–] rushington (735) 2 years ago

Same :) Now not a day goes by that I don't check the threads

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[–] Mustang (5267) 2 years ago

I think some people went to specific TV show fan sites or just stopped using forums. There are plenty of film boards around.

This site has the bonus of having the old IMDB set up as well as the old threads.

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[–] TexasJack (12515) 2 years ago

Yes, I think it's the best. Could be bigger/better but the owner has mostly disengaged.

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[–] aavfreak (2975) 2 years ago

That's unfortunate. If the owner abandons the site, I guess it will expire on its own eventually.

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[–] [deleted] 2 years ago

i wish he would find a new owner.

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[–] sslssg (30114) 2 years ago

I think that there are a few other sites which have more traffic. That would be good in some instances, but it also increases trolling. We have enough of that here already.

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[–] BillySlater (4126) 2 years ago

At the same time, you don´t have that many feeding the trolls here though.

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[–] aavfreak (2975) 2 years ago

Too many trolls can kill the discussion for sure. Sometimes making an entire movie's or show's board unusable.

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[–] BillySlater (4126) 2 years ago

The trick is to not reply to them though or put them on ignore. If you ignore them, eventually they go away. The whole point to trolling is to get a response from you.

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[–] aavfreak (2975) 2 years ago

Yes, ignore has always worked well for me. The traditional troll just looking for response or engagement is easily dealt with. As you said, just ignore them and they'll move on.

However, there was a special breed on IMDb (and now filmboards) that would post hundreds of off topic threads and respond all to each other in a battle of immaturity. That was okay if you had them all on ignore, you could see only the relevant threads, but when others visited the board (Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead were notorious for it) it was just pages and pages of nonsense. It killed the discussion and engagement at that point.

Those same clowns are still at it. For reference:

https://filmboards.com/board/11520211/

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[–] Kawada_Kira (7282) 2 years ago

Imagine having such a small and meaningless life to spend time doing something stupid like that, just to ruin a forum for everybody else.

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[–] OnanTheBarbarian (10899) 2 years ago

filmboards has more traffic on its General Discussion but they allow multiple 15-second socks. Frankly, they're held hostage by a clique of trolls.

But take any film or actor or topic here and compare its discussion board with the corresponding one on filmboards. There is more traffic on Movie Chat's individual boards and more in depth discussion about film. filmboards has more GD traffic with fart jokes and nonsensical trolling. 🤣

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[–] aavfreak (2975) 2 years ago

Man, I have no idea how those guys don't get tired of the same schtick over and over again. "wHo haS thE stInkIesT faRts On tHis BoaRd" and such.

They're not even trolling anyone at this point. They're just posting immature nonsense to each other in a big circle jerk. 🤣

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[–] OnanTheBarbarian (10899) 2 years ago

filmboards has great potential and the unfettered free speech concept is a great one. But they need to get professional and clean up the spamming and excessive trolling. It's not growing anymore. It's dying.

Having posted extensively on filmboards, I can tell you, I was shocked how much quality posts there are here. The individual movie boards are amazing and better than anything on filmboards.

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[–] aavfreak (2975) 2 years ago

I think most people are driven to the movie specific boards here because of the trending bar on the homepage. That's where I've always spent most of my time. And you're right, there is some high quality discussion.

After several years, I'm just now starting to take the time to check the general discussion.

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[–] [deleted] 2 years ago

MOVIECHAT IS MUCH BUSIER

MOVIECHAT - 1.2 MILLION VISITS THE PAST THREE MONTHS

https://www.similarweb.com/website/moviechat.org/#traffic

FILMBOARDS - 390,000

https://www.similarweb.com/website/filmboards.com/#traffic

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[–] aavfreak (2975) 2 years ago

Interesting stats. Thanks for posting. I wonder how it compares to IMDb when the boards were active there.

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[–] OnanTheBarbarian (10899) 2 years ago

Yup. And I was shocked when I left filmboards and began posting here and saw for myself.

I wish Nimda would look at the stats and clean it up. Seriously, 5 trolls run that forum, not Nimda.

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[–] TexasJack (12515) 2 years ago

FB appears to have more traffic on its GD board because they aggregate posts made anywhere on the site there, so it's an apples-to-oranges comparison. The apple-to-apples comparison would be FB's GD board and MovieChat's Latest Posts board - https://moviechat.org/latest

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[–] OnanTheBarbarian (10899) 2 years ago

I'd say FB's GD board and MovieChat's Latests Posts are evenly matched. And they both combine all posts on the boards. The difference is the number of throwaway socks on FB because you can register there without an email address. So some blowhard can make dozens of socks and make dozens of inane trolls posts.

But as Hownos stats show, there are more individual posters on Movie Chat. Filmboards just has a lot of disposable socks and trash posts.

And on Filmboards almost everything is centered on General Discussion. On MovieChat most the posts are about film and substantial topics.

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[–] Furienna (3330) 2 years ago

Really, I had never heard of Filmboards before.
But I don't think that I'm interested in going there.

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[–] AndyKing1967 (35027) 2 years ago

I went there once - I felt soiled.

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[–] OnanTheBarbarian (10899) 2 years ago

I went there and it smelled like urine and dried jizz stains.

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[–] AndyKing1967 (35027) 2 years ago

Pretty much.

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[–] BillHicksFan (10241) 2 years ago

Not the best, but another alternative. My favorite is the one with the most movie-talk and most traffic, so there's a ton of people who create some great threads. I think IMDB going down might have been a good thing, because it also spawned v2, but pro-boards has problems when you try to access it from another computer.

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[–] Whataboutyourmom (99) 2 years ago

This place is a lot better than snarky craphole Reddit. Its a lot less insanely moderated too.

What are the "alternatives" supposed to be..

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[–] OnanTheBarbarian (10899) 2 years ago

It's impossible to have a good one-on-one or even any type of group discussion on Reddit where a real dialog takes place. It's too big. And usually your posts get buried.

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[–] Stratego (29525) 2 years ago

The archived boards is what's best about this site. A lot of times you don't have anything specific to say yourself, but just want to read what others have said. No other site has a comparable collection of discussions on older and more obscure movies and series. Well, filmboards, but, you know...

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[–] aavfreak (2975) 2 years ago

This is a good point and one I hadn't given as much thought to. I'm at a point in life right now that my kids have grown and I have more time to watch some shows and movies I overlooked when they were younger, just because of time obligations.

It is nice to go back and review discussion when the show/movie was still new. For example: I'm just now catching up on the MCU. It has been nice to go back and see the thoughts of others as I wondered if anyone caught certain things or saw things the same way I did.

There is a lot of value in that. I hope moviechat doesn't unexpectedly disappear. It's a treasure.

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[–] Iffy762 (1331) 2 years ago

Totally agree.

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[–] [deleted] 2 years ago

I love the fact this site has archived chats from the old IMDB days. I enjoy reading some of those now decade old discussions.

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[–] MonStar (12036) 2 years ago

Unfortunately, IMDB deleted a lot of old posts a year or two before closing the forums, so those posts could not be archived to MovieChat.

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