Welcome to MovieChat.org

Thank you so much, Jim!! A really super great thing you've done here......
Three cheers for Jim!! Hip hip hooraaay!!
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Thank you, Jim. You saved the day! So glad the old posts won't be lost forever.

Thanks Jim for this great site

Thank you Jim for making these forums. I had never posted on the old iMDB boards but was a longtime lurker. I knew that if I ever had a question about some plot point of any movie or TV show, there would always be someone who had already asked it and someone who had already answered it. I didn't even know the boards were closing, until I finished watching something tonight and went to go look something up. I saw the discussion threads missing, so I googled and found out they had just been deleted today, and then found the link to here. I am so glad you were able to back up what iMDB so thoughtlessly threw in the trash- years and years of so many people's thoughtful and detailed discussions. Was there trolling, of course that is inevitable! But there was great value as well.

If I could make just a couple suggestions:
When registering there is no where to enter your email. This might sound good at first, but if you ever forget your password then you have no way to get it back.
And the registration form also only has one box for password, instead of the usual 2 boxes. ( making people enter it twice will catch typos and spelling errors). By having only one box (where the letters don't even show, all you see is dots), I think people are quite likely to hit a wrong key and then that misspelled word becomes their password (but it's not what they think it is), so next time they try to log in on another device, they can't. And they can't retrieve the password or change it, so they'd just have to make another new account.
And also if you ever want to add private messaging or email notifications, having member's emails will be needed.
Anyway this might all be coming in time, I am sure you are very busy with many suggestions and requests.

Thank you for the idea and the effort, Jim! It is really wonderful of you to keep this place going.

Not a complaint, just a technical observation - I have to log in every time I open a new topic. Is it supposed to be this way?

@bluehex: Nope, you shouldn't have to log in each time. But I've been doing frequent updates, and every time I do an update it logs everyone out, so that may be what's happening.

Jim, I was wondering what you know about Archive Team's archive of the IMDb boards? While they were in the archiving process, I monitored their progress using their tracker, and they downloaded nearly 4 terabytes of data.

http://tracker.archiveteam.org/imdb/

From what I've gathered, it seems that they uploaded their collection of IMDb message board data (or at least parts of it) in huge chunks here:

https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_imdb

I do you know of any way that their archive can be used?

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