“We have decided to disable IMDb's message boards”
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Re: “We have decided to disable IMDb's message boards”
#2Makes sense. I don't see what the big deal is, surprised to see this at the top of the front page? I had to double check I wasn't looking at /new
Re: “We have decided to disable IMDb's message boards”
#3Makes sense. I don't see what the big deal is, surprised to see this at the top of the front page? I had to double check I wasn't looking at /new
What information are we going to lose when it's deleted? Will IMDB consider handing the data to the Internet Archive?
Re: “We have decided to disable IMDb's message boards”
#4Makes sense. I don't see what the big deal is, surprised to see this at the top of the front page? I had to double check I wasn't looking at /new
On the low-volume boards for not-so-popular movies, I've found some of the posts incredibly valuable, and all of that is now going to be out of the reach of search engines.
Re: “We have decided to disable IMDb's message boards”
#5And not much of value was lost. Those boards had terrible usability. IIRC not long ago you could only see one comment per page and had to click on every single comment to read the thread.
That changed a little while ago but you still have multi-pages for comments and it's hard to keep track of who replies to whom. They also have these weird signatures which are completely impossible to distinguish from the body of the comment unless the poster used a different color or something.
Not that the discussions were generally very insightful, mostly celebrity gossip and flamewars.
Re: “We have decided to disable IMDb's message boards”
#6Makes sense. I don't see what the big deal is, surprised to see this at the top of the front page? I had to double check I wasn't looking at /new
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.
Re: “We have decided to disable IMDb's message boards”
#7And not much of value was lost. Those boards had terrible usability. IIRC not long ago you could only see one comment per page and had to click on every single comment to read the thread. That changed a little while ago but you still have multi-pages for comments and it's hard to keep track of who replies to whom. They also have these weird signatures which are completely impossible to distinguish from the body of th…
Not a great loss, but it's amusing to read imdb's definition of "ample time" to backup anything of value.
Re: “We have decided to disable IMDb's message boards”
#8And not much of value was lost. Those boards had terrible usability. IIRC not long ago you could only see one comment per page and had to click on every single comment to read the thread. That changed a little while ago but you still have multi-pages for comments and it's hard to keep track of who replies to whom. They also have these weird signatures which are completely impossible to distinguish from the body of th…
>IIRC not long ago you could only see one comment per page and had to click on every single comment to read the thread
That's the case on medium.com right now for comment replies. I was surprised to see how nested comments and replies work there. It's terrible.
Re: “We have decided to disable IMDb's message boards”
#9Makes sense. I don't see what the big deal is, surprised to see this at the top of the front page? I had to double check I wasn't looking at /new
What information are we going to lose when it's deleted? Will IMDB consider handing the data to the Internet Archive?
I'd argue we won't lose anything. IMDB message boards aren't exactly a trustworthy source of information.
Re: “We have decided to disable IMDb's message boards”
#10Translation:
"We thought we would get a community of fans for free. We didn't realize that maintaining a community requires active engagement, setting rules for behavior and enforcing them. We really didn't think anyone would bother being a troll. This is all too expensive to do properly."