Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

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

imdb.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

301–310 of 340 posts

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

#301

Post by alex_hitchins »

ransom1538 wrote: post #203
alex_hitchins wrote: post #201

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting to read your post. I had always thought running a forum would be hard work but somehow rewarding. What where some of the reasons you would get sued?

Not quickly responding to DMCA complaints[1], subpoenas[2], death threats [mainly just working with police], illegal content. With one forum, the owner sued saying that content was 'theirs' and wanted us to provide the mysqldump as a settlement. [1] http://www.dmca.com/FAQ/What-is-a-DMCA-Takedown [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doe_subpoena

Thanks for replying. I guess hosting something successful will result in these becoming a daily reality.

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

#302

Post by Markoff »

frik wrote: post #280

IMDb seems to be in low maintenance mode for years. I don't understand why Amazon doesn't invest more in it's valuable sister company. Every slight renovation of the old IMDb website design makes it worse. They should just modify they CSS if they don't understand their job. IMDb is the Wikipedia of movies, started as community mailing list (or usenet?) and became one of the first websites. The forum softwares never g…

actually TMDb is closer to Wikipedia, it can be literally edited by users plus they launched just yesterday discussions, feel free to replace it with closed sourced IMDb not honoring its long-term users

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

#303

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?

just to update you, in the end TMDb yesterday launched discussions, it's open website build by users since 2008

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

#304

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.

update - TMDb launched discussions yesterday, currently linked only from desktop, on mobile you have to add "discuss" at the end of URL or wait few hours until it will be implemented for mobile layout too

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

#305

Post by Markoff »

teach wrote: post #163
cdelsolar wrote: post #159

This is such a terrible idea. By far the main reason I go to IMDb is to see and participate in the discussions on the movie I just watched.

Really? By far the main reason I go to IMDb is to look up actors and movies. And when I did accidentally see a comment, it was usually pretty low-quality.

there are tons of alternatives if you just look for movies and actors without discussion - letterboxd, rotten tomatoes, metacritic, etc

TMDb would be one of them, plus now they launched discussions for each title, so i am moving there,i like the free concept managed by users like Wikipedia

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

#306

Post by Markoff »

cdelsolar wrote: post #159

This is such a terrible idea. By far the main reason I go to IMDb is to see and participate in the discussions on the movie I just watched.

feel free to move to TMDb, each movie had its own forum, it was just launched yesterday so don't expect years of collective wisdom but can hope it will get traction and people will start discussing there

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

#307

Post by Markoff »

Cyph0n wrote: post #202
electrichead wrote: post #195

I know that a lot of people don't frequent the boards so they might not see value in them, but I have a few experiences over the years that endeared this community to me. One was right after watching the second movie in the Matrix trilogy: the cliffhanger left so many open questions that the conversations around it were immensely interesting. I think actually that a few of the theories then (Zion in a zion and others…

Agreed. One of the only times I contributed to the board was on a thread discussing why time travel in Timecrimes[1] (superb movie!) was not consistent. Without spoiling it, we ended up discussing all sorts of alternate theories in an attempt to have it make sense. Another cool thing is visiting the boards of interesting movies or shows that are still far out from release. You usually find details about estimated rel…

yep, time crimes was very good, i remember very good discussions also in The Prestige board regarding teleportation

btw TMDb just launched discussions yesterday so feel free to participate there, of course don't expect years of comments, but feel free to copy interesting topics you made from IMDb

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

#308

Post by Markoff »

jimmydouglas wrote: post #217

Hi all! I am a co-founder of Trakt and I thought you would all like to know our thoughts on this. We are planning on significantly revamping our community engagement experience. In fact, it is our most significant project for 2017 and we sketched out the plan over a weekend last month. Trakt has a form of threaded discussion on our web app today. But of course, it has a long way to go before it can fill the shoes of…

trakt is cool, but it's more on side of sharing and social aspect, i was recommending your website until TMDb launched their discussions, since it's closest alternative to IMDb (plus as bonus pretty open platform), you have there movie and actors info plus you have proper discussions since yesterday

diversification and competition is healthy but too much fragmentation ain't good either

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

#309

Post by Markoff »

dirkg wrote: post #194

This is the worst news I've read. IMDB boards are where I always go to learn about a movie/tv show, there is decades worth of interesting threads and contributions from people who'd never use a 'social network', even with their stupid policy of deleting threads. Its an insult the way they're going about this. Pretending that the majority of their users would prefer to use the cancer that is FB/Twitter, which even if…

fully agree with you, importance of trolls is overstated

if you look for alternative check TMDb which just launched forum discussions for reach title so don't expect decades of collective wisdom available but at least it's somewhere to move on

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

#310

Post by Markoff »

gurkendoktor wrote: post #111

Sigh. I actually had hope that IMDb would eventually fix its social functionality. That's obviously never going to happen. There is (was?) a way to add friends on IMDb, but I found it ridiculously hard to find, and even now I can't see their movie ratings or watchlists. The message boards were stuck in the 90s, but at least they got the job done. Maybe I should write a script to migrate all my ratings to Letterboxd..…

check out TMDb, it has watchlists, ratings, API for apps and also discussions launched yesterday plus it's by no means some newcomer, they are around since 2008 as alternative to IMDb
Post reply on HN