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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 »

xena wrote: post #76
Markoff wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

same here, been user for 14 years. since there was no alternative everyone headed to IMDb boards to discuss movie so you could always find someone, now after destroying the boards not sure where to go, since everyone will try to find some place to discuss movies, though there is none really with critical mass of users i am thinking about trakt.tv though it's just threaded comments, but better than nothing since rotte…

4chan has a television and film board, it's less 4chan than the other boards.

it has board created already for every single obscure movie?

i think better option would be enable forums on TMDb as they discuss here

https://www.themoviedb.org/talk/5894e6e0c3a368089b000e1e?pag...

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

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Post by Markoff »

ptrptr wrote: post #33

This just shows how Amazon is only interested in selling movies, not building communities. Can someone recommend any other movie forum with similiar scale?

nothing with such scale at moment, can only hope that TMDb takes this opportunity, you can write them here

https://www.themoviedb.org/talk/5894e6e0c3a368089b000e1e?pag...

other than that only place to discuss movies are comments in trakt.tv but they are pretty dead

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

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Post by Markoff »

pgrote wrote: post #87
ptrptr wrote: post #33

This just shows how Amazon is only interested in selling movies, not building communities. Can someone recommend any other movie forum with similiar scale?

Since the announcement I've looked and haven't found anything. This is a huge bummer since the value in the comments were discussions outside of the larger movies. I've learned many things about movies I've enjoyed and appreciated the other takes of movies I hadn't thought of. If you do come across something, please let us know.

check trakt.tv comments and support this feature in TMDb discussion

https://www.themoviedb.org/talk/5894e6e0c3a368089b000e1e?pag...

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

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Post by gdulli »

r721 wrote: post #109

Interesting comment on reddit (by Manhattan_Writer): "This is no surprise whatsoever. I've worked at IMDb (the worst and most discouraging experience of my professional life ) and believe me, the company is a soulless, empty corporate shell that has one goal: to sell advertising. It's not about movies, TV, or being 'guardians of data' - everything is about making money. The entire site is setup to sell advertising, a…

"Forget it Jake, it's Amazon."

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

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Post by [deleted] »

Anthony-G wrote: post #75

Another nail in the coffin for the open web! As I mentioned in another comment [1], I read the discussion threads but have never actually contributed to them. I can easily click a link to view all past discussion related to the film I'm interested in without having to sign up and become a member. This would be impossible in Facebook or Twitter where discussion is ephemeral, not conducive to thoughtful expression and…

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

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Post by coffeeCashew »

Markoff wrote: post #60
pcarolan wrote: post #46

This would be a good opportunity for someone to build an independent message board layer similar to gitter or genius. Its been tried before unsuccessfully but sooner or later someone will get it right. As the web becomes more closed, this could be a platform for more open discussion.

the thing is it must have already big database of movies and enough users, only other sites meeting this are rotten tomatoes (disabled read only forums so apparently not interested), TMDb (nothing, seem they are not interested in this opportunity judging by discussion in their forum), Metacritic (nothing), Letterboxd (nothing and too few users) and trakt.tv (has threaded comments for specific movies, but also not tha…

I think the PP is referring to an independent, content agnostic system for layering discourse and messaging on top of third-party content systems.

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

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Post by blubb-fish »

Narretz wrote: post #132
amatix wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Head to https://letterboxd.com — besides looking and working beautifully, it's designed from the ground up as a social movie site to find, review, track and share great (and awful) watches. The list functionality is superb — Best car chases? Submarine films? Movies where white people solve racism? Got it.

This looks interesting, as I use imdb mainly for lists, and they are too inconsistent to me - there's a watchlist, but no watched-list, for example. Or I haven't found it, because the ui is so inconsistent. Does Letterboxd have the option to export your activity / lists?

the watched list is the list with your ratings.
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