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Well it was nice knowing you all - Stupid IMDb


From IMDb

IMDb is the world’s most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content. 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.

Increasingly, IMDb customers have migrated to IMDb’s social media accounts as the primary place they choose to post comments and communicate with IMDb’s editors and one another. IMDb’s Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/imdb) and official Twitter account (https://twitter.com/imdb) have an audience of more than 10 million engaged fans. IMDb also maintains official accounts on Snapchat (https://www.snapchat.com/add/imdblive), Pinterest (https://www.pinterest.com/imdbofficial/), YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/imdb), and Tumblr (http://imdb.tumblr.com/).

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.

IMDb is passionately committed to providing innovative ways for our hundreds of millions of users to engage and communicate with one another. We will continue to enhance our current offerings and launch new features in 2017 and beyond that will help our customers communicate and express themselves in meaningful ways while leveraging emerging technologies and opportunities.

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It was nice knowing you all! What interesting times we've had, eh. 

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Everyone needs to contact IMDb and complain about them shutting down the boards. Hopefully if enough people complain they'll keep them going.

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Wow! Can't believe this! I've often been given a rough ride on this message-board and shed-loads of abuse have been thrown at me - but I would never want to see the whole shebang closed down. Yes, I'll miss you.

Does anyone support this? I suppose that, if I were playing devil's advocate, I could think of a number of reasons as to why this is a good idea.

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I can understand why they're doing it with all the abuse that goes on on some of the boards, but it seems more like cutting off their nose to spite their face at this point.

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I bet some celebs complained about what was written about them. It would only take a few of the "glitterati" hierarchy grousing to make a site like this cow-tow.

I will miss you guys and this board! Really depend on you all for latest news and great links!

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As far as I know most celebs don't read the boards. Sometimes production people read them for shows though.

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Looks like the private messaging is already down. I've clicked on some names and there is no place to contact.

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As far as I can make out, the private messaging is still working for me. I'll try to send you a message, broughps, and see what happens.

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