I absolutely know where you're coming from. I've felt a sort of hesitance to come to any of the regular forums I frequent here over the last few days, because there's sort of this sense of futility, if it's all going to be deleted soon; combined with a lot of the discussion about the closure itself sometimes seeming to overshadow the discussion of any of the main topics.
Plus there's a preponderance of alternative options, and all of them with their share of good and bad. You've got the IMDB v2 board. I just saw through another board here that there's http://thegotboard.com/, which is not only another board inspired by the closure to stick it to IMDB, but the second I saw it, I recognized it as another Proboards based board; though somehow they've been able to use a more unique URL. But now there are two competing and virtually identical boards designed as a migration/replacement setting. And in both cases, there's going to be a lot of competition to get special recognition for a particular sub-forum, like Buffy, but if you split the users between the two options, it's going to be harder to show that support. Plus I found that, while it acknowledges that you're logged in for another Proboard forum, you still have to register separately for each one.
Another user posted a link to this site, https://www.themoviedb.org, which apparently an alternate (dare I say, knock-off) IMDB; complete with show and movie info, plus forums for each entry. That might seem like a really good option, and an even bigger f-you to IMDB, but the main drawback I see so far with the forums is that the text formatting isn't any better than IMDB's. In fact it's closer to what it was a few years ago, before IMBD implemented the mark-up buttons; and the mark-ups at themoviedb are more like HTML mark-ups, so it'd require learning new mark-up tags for some people....
Basically, this seriously blows....
"You can lead a hearse to water, but you can't make it sink." The Cat
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