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“We have decided to disable IMDb's message boards”

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Re: “We have decided to disable IMDb's message boards”

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Post by Markoff »

Markoff wrote: post #55
numerlo wrote: post #24

The younger generation or even people newer at the internet never learned how valuable those boards where. IMDb failed with the newer generation and that's why they are shuting them down (the fact that they have to spend resources to keep them up doesn't help either). The comments here (up until now at least) are a representation of their failure as everyone states that nothing of value was lost and most didn't bothe…

project on HN apparently don't watch movie or search superhero crap and other sophisticated stuff, otherwise it's hard to understand why would anyone agree with shutting boards where movie fans discuss movies, especially those less known and especially since there is ZERO alternative to easily find discussion board for some obscure movie you just watched where would anyone head

people... watch...

can't edit my comment in my HN client

Re: “We have decided to disable IMDb's message boards”

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Post by Notre1 »

myf01d wrote: post #50

I can't understand, is storing pure text too expensive for IMDB which is owned by Amazon which runs half the servers of the planet? Why don't they keep the threads while disabling new discussions?

There is a comment on Reddit saying that the ArchiveTeam is working on archiving them:

https://www.reddit.com/r/scifi/comments/5s0iiv/slug/ddbugy5

Re: “We have decided to disable IMDb's message boards”

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Post by awinder »

yoodenvranx wrote: post #37
roryisok wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree. Keeping archives of decade old arguments between random strangers seems like a waste of digital resources. It's like taking and storing minutes for the water cooler conversations in your office. I wonder how many petabytes of forum content there is out there on the web

> seems like a waste of digital resources Yes, that's exactly the same what Sumerians did say back a few 1000 years ago. Why keep all these clay tables about ordering wine? Who is gonna be interested in that kind of stuff in 10 years? Don't you think that such an archive would offer a nice glimpse into our current culture a few hundred years in the future?

For a certain definition of "nice", possibly. It's a little bit of a depressing thought that some future culture might find only our online comments and study our culture through that.

Re: “We have decided to disable IMDb's message boards”

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Post by Markoff »

hyperbovine wrote: post #20
lucideer wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IMDb is one of the biggest websites in the world, and they're deleting a large percentage of the content on their site. Seems front-page-worthy if only for the scale of the content being lost, whatever your view of the value of that content.

Messages are a tiny fraction of the content on their site.

their boards are pretty much only unique feature they offered, if i wanna information about movie, rate something or create my watchlist i have plenty of options

if i wanna discuss ANY movie i watched, i have ONE option which is being shut down in two weeks

which also means after shutting down boards i have no more reason to use their site and not switch to competition which i am already doing since i learned this news (deciding between TMDb and Trakt.tv at the moment, the latter one has even thread comments for each movie or TV show)

Re: “We have decided to disable IMDb's message boards”

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Post by yoodenvranx »

awinder wrote: post #63
yoodenvranx wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> seems like a waste of digital resources Yes, that's exactly the same what Sumerians did say back a few 1000 years ago. Why keep all these clay tables about ordering wine? Who is gonna be interested in that kind of stuff in 10 years? Don't you think that such an archive would offer a nice glimpse into our current culture a few hundred years in the future?

For a certain definition of "nice", possibly. It's a little bit of a depressing thought that some future culture might find only our online comments and study our culture through that.

What else should they find of our current culture? Our books are written on very cheap paper which will not survive the next 100 years.

Re: “We have decided to disable IMDb's message boards”

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Post by bluedino »

exodust wrote: post #42

Thumbs down to whoever decided to close the boards. I'll miss being able to argue about why a movie is rubbish with someone who thinks it's fantastic, or vice-versa. There's some great discussions on some of the movie boards where people talk about the stories and motivations of characters etc. Sure it gets heated sometimes, but that's life. You just navigate around that stuff and find things worth responding to. Sen…

The sad part is it's due to a very small amount of trolls that did a lot of damage. I can't help but be disgusted that these guys are now laughing about IMDB shutting the whole thing down because of their actions.

Re: “We have decided to disable IMDb's message boards”

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Post by bogomipz »

They seem to be adopting the same public comment that NPR did when they shutdown comments - "we aren't shutting it down but rather we are simply 'migrating' community engagement to Twitter(and perhaps other social media outlets.)"

I find relegating community engagement to Twitter creates an uneven experience in that I have to go "out of band" to participate when I am already on the IMDB site. Also discussing movies(or any art form for that matter) via 140 characters is hard for me personally to take seriously.

I wish they had provided numbers for the volume that uses the comments section vs Twitter as it would have been interesting.

Maybe this change will create an opportunity for an alternate movie site?

Re: “We have decided to disable IMDb's message boards”

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Post by Anthony-G »

song wrote: post #21

It's a pity, the boards of not popular movies sometimes had very interesting discussions. I got in the habit always check the message boards after watching a movie. I've never really posted though, just been a lurker. I hope the Internet Archive archives this in some form.

It's the same for me. I've never posted because usually other contributors have already provided interesting observations or interpretations. If I have a question, odds are someone else in the past two decades has already asked the same question. While, I've noticed the quality of the discussion in inversely proportional to the popularity of the film, even for mainstream films you can identify the useless threads quickly enough or back away if/when they get derailed.
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