"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"
Ohhh, what's that mean? That too many people are being too mean towards movies and arguing? Shutting down dialogue is the way to go now?
I think it's more about the fact that the forums are mostly empty these days. When you're spending money to host content for a handful of users who are notorious on the internet for being rude, why should you do something nice for them? It's not a "dialogue," it's just a cesspit of bullies.
That's completely ridiculous. I'm not sure which of the boards you were on, but I've seen and participated in some fantastic discussion on that site.
Those sites may have gotten a lot of major pieces of media, but it missed most of the obscure stuff (and the LMW typically tends to deal with the obscure stuff). For instance, I just tried this movie as a test, since I remembered from an older discussion on here that there were multiple forum posts about it, regarding the confusion of another movie with the same title, and also when this one is actually going to come out. Moviechat doesn't have any of the threads, and neither does Wayback Machine (though it does have the main page archived so I can see there were threads there).
That was why I was doing a big push for people to back up stuff they care about by themselves, because Wayback Machine's auto-crawler doesn't usually pick up every page of a website, only the frequently used ones, or the ones it feels like. Of the 4 pieces of lost media that I archived threads for, none of them had any archives on there before I made them, and Moviechat only archived the threads for Cube (and each one cuts off after the first 9 messages). And now that I'm checking, it seems like even the ones I saved myself aren't working, which REALLY pisses me off, since I triple-checked everything at the time.
