Film site IMDb to shut down message boards

[Scrumptious]

Film information site IMDb has announced that it is shutting down its message boards.

The site, which gets 250 million visitors per month, said the chat areas of the site were "no longer" proving useful to users.

Most users now preferred to talk about films and actors on IMDb'S social networks, it said.

One media commentator said the boards were "terrible" and deserved to be shut down.

IMDb said the decision to close the message boards had been made after "in-depth discussion" about them. It concluded that the amount of talk on the boards and the topics they covered were not a "positive, useful experience" for the majority of its users.

Users have been warned they have two weeks to archive material they want to save.

Originally Published: Mon, 06 Feb 2017 12:49:59 GMT
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[Sid]

tbh I can only recall ever posting there twice, but I often read the comments after I'd watched something.

I didn't even know they had a Facebook page, and I cannot imagine how 10 million people can meaningfully discuss hundreds of thousands of different movies/tv shows in the single threaded model Fb provides. [And I'll not be checking Fb to find out, because I avoid it like the plague.]

[Moe]

Like every other news or media site shutting down discussion forums, they don't want to bother with maintaining and moderating them.

[joew771]

I noticed that just today when I went there.

I liked the message boards, they would talk about things that you won't get on twitter or whatever else they are offering instead, but they were pretty nonsensical a lot of the time, and it was a lot of the same people posting, but I'll miss it anyway. I wish they would have kept it.