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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday February 08 2017, @03:53PM   Printer-friendly
from the that's-a-wrap dept.

Claiming they're "no longer providing a positive, useful experience" for the vast majority of its users, IMDB has announced that as of February 20, 2017, their message boards will be no more:

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.

[...] 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.

Variety, BBC, TheWrap.


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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Hyperturtle on Wednesday February 08 2017, @04:18PM

    by Hyperturtle (2824) on Wednesday February 08 2017, @04:18PM (#464586)

    Internet Movie Database
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Movie_Database [wikipedia.org]

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Hyperturtle on Wednesday February 08 2017, @05:34PM

    by Hyperturtle (2824) on Wednesday February 08 2017, @05:34PM (#464626)

    sorry guys, i don't really read the reviews from poisoned wells unless they are phenomally bad or entertaining. Might have landeded there a few times. I mean -- I am not going to look up the reviews of star wars. I think I get the idea already.

    Anyway, my outlook was shaped on previous Internet Behaviors: Once upon a time I entered data into the CDDB database, many many albums, hundreds, typing them in with each CD I ripped into that new MP3 format that came out. CDDB was awesome, play an unknown CD and IT PULLS THE NAMES FROM THE INTERNET! This is too cool! Then they went private and locked us contributors out and started charging for access to the data people like me gave them. For free.

    This taught me something. After that I stopped paying attention to these internet databases of media stuff that takes public contributions. Too tempting to repeat mistakes. It also seems they tend to become hostile to their users after a while.