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It was nice knowing you all

posted 7 years ago by sens_death
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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.

[–] cybermastah 7 years ago

Wait, what?

Oh my God, of all the retarded nonsense IMDB wants to do, this is one of them?!

[–] sens_death 7 years ago

They'll lose $hitload of traffic over this decision. Who the F even goes to discuss movies/tv shows through Facebook or Twitter? When I want to discuss some movie, I search up it's name here, and visit the message board.. now I'll need to wait for them to post about the movie on their lame-ass Facebook page which I could not care less about.. only so I can comment under it.

This is pure $hit, looks like I'll have to stick with Reddit until IMDb regrets this decision and brings back message boards.

[–] mveliz 7 years ago

Who the F even goes to discuss movies/tv shows through Facebook or Twitter?

When you have a president that handles foreign policy relations through twitter discussions... (by several orders of magnitude more important things - in theory - than movie talk) why can't IMDB do the same!? (said some top exec in IMDB.com)

;)

[–] jayoungr 7 years ago

Part of a wider trend; Wizards of the Coast shut down their message boards too. But as you say, nice knowing you.

[–] Leklor 7 years ago

It WAS indeed fun to come here and talk movies and *beep*
I had fun speculating what aspects of Warcraft the Game would make it into the movie.
I didn't have that much fun getting The Force Awakens spoiled from start to finish three months prior to release. (And that way I'll avoid spoilers of The Last Jedi.)

It's a weird decision but I can live without IMDB.

As you did say: It was nice knowing you all.

[–] sens_death 7 years ago

I can live without IMDb too, but it was my top and only site, aside from reddit.com/r/movies which I used to discuss movies and $hit.

[–] Leklor 7 years ago

I, for sure, will spend a lot less time speaking about movies on the Internet outside of my already existing "social circle".
I do visit Reddit from time to time but I don't post there, the usual communities I've witnessed there (*cough* Star Wars The Old Republic or "If you even remotely enjoy the game you're EA's bitch" *Cough*) have managed to ward me off of it.
What I find curious with IMDB's decision is that it's literally the main reason people still come here, of the few people I know who visit the site. Maybe its on the way out and they're just trying to be elegant about it, shutting down more and more over the months?

[–] wielderofspoons 7 years ago

Surely not, isn't this pretty much the definitive film site on the web?

[–] Leklor 7 years ago

I don't really know. It's just a theory I've read somewhere else. In any case, I can't really understand the decision.

[–] DrNarud 7 years ago

Oh wonderful, and I haven't even been here that long. Sens_death, would you like to exchange contact information with me, so that we can remain in contact?

[–] arnez88-237-649302 7 years ago

I miss you all guys, any cinephile out there. Even the trolls who gave me a good laugh in here!

[–] VickeViking 7 years ago

Rock on!

[–] ericcarrf 7 years ago

Really depressing news. Well, RIP IMDb for me

nice knowing you all...