I miss them too. It's really a void now to enter imdb. I wonder what they say when they find out half their traffic is gone due to this.
Fun IMDB: The Site We Left Behind....
Janine The Barefoot
Wacky Norwegian Woman
I don't even go back for data on shows. It just feels wrong. So I Wiki stuff or Google it or whatever. It used to be home and now it's just an empty shell.
Janine The Barefoot
Wacky Norwegian Woman
What's VB DeJ? There are things I might check the archives for... maybe. But I wouldn't even know where to start on how to find them.
CoriSCapnSkip
Member: Rank 2
I visited their sad tired little Facebook page on several occasions, to state in no uncertain terms my opinion of their cursed corporation and its crappy conduct, and to repeatedly spam it with links to this and other alternative sites. One day I even earned a virtual prize for spamming them until I was temporarily banned from public posting. Their Facebook page is as lame as you suppose. Only they can start topics and of course all subjects are only the aspects of current actors and films they wish discussed, not what people really want to talk about. I OT'd the hell out of them!
IMDB facebook and Twitter are a joke. Nothing really great about them.
CoriSCapnSkip
Member: Rank 2
Skepticism engendered over the demise of the Internet Movie Database Message Boards has given rise to entertaining conspiracy theories. No one bought the lame and bogus excuse that troll posts were to blame. Sure, let the situation run rampant for years and then decide to pull the plug on practically no notice a week before the Academy Awards? The dimmest among observers could sense something extremely rotten in Denmark. Many said, Follow the Money, which proves true in 99% of all cases of just about everything. Theories were bandied about that actors, film studios, or powerful corporations were unhappy that unfavorable talk and ratings dimmed the luster of expensive and glitzy PR campaigns. Others went further afield, suggesting terrorists or other criminal gangs were somehow using the boards to communicate by code. Best is that Jeff Bezos, Col Needham, or both, were themselves involved in criminal activity (child sex trafficking was suggested, with or without pizza parlor involvement) and some of the movie boards (no one knows which, or exactly what was said) were being used by whistleblowers exposing their wicked, depraved, and vile corruption. Word has it that such activities on the part of Bezos were seriously harmed by Trump's travel restrictions cutting the supply of sweet innocent young refugee flesh, and the boards fell victim, sacrificed ere they expose his excesses. I offer no suggestions, only a sampling of the suppositions.
DeJoHnNiE
Member: Rank 4
This may be a bit overwhelming and complicated, but if you read it slow and steady you will get the idea of what a Virtual Box is.
The techniques and features that VirtualBox provides are useful for several scenarios:
- Running multiple operating systems simultaneously. VirtualBox allows you to run more than one operating system at a time. This way, you can run software written for one operating system on another (for example, Windows software on Linux or a Mac) without having to reboot to use it. Since you can configure what kinds of "virtual" hardware should be presented to each such operating system, you can install an old operating system such as DOS or OS/2 even if your real computer's hardware is no longer supported by that operating system.
- Easier software installations. Software vendors can use virtual machines to ship entire software configurations. For example, installing a complete mail server solution on a real machine can be a tedious task. With VirtualBox, such a complex setup (then often called an "appliance") can be packed into a virtual machine. Installing and running a mail server becomes as easy as importing such an appliance into VirtualBox.
- Testing and disaster recovery. Once installed, a virtual machine and its virtual hard disks can be considered a "container" that can be arbitrarily frozen, woken up, copied, backed up, and transported between hosts.
On top of that, with the use of another VirtualBox feature called "snapshots", one can save a particular state of a virtual machine and revert back to that state, if necessary. This way, one can freely experiment with a computing environment. If something goes wrong (e.g. after installing misbehaving software or infecting the guest with a virus), one can easily switch back to a previous snapshot and avoid the need of frequent backups and restores.
Any number of snapshots can be created, allowing you to travel back and forward in virtual machine time. You can delete snapshots while a VM is running to reclaim disk space.
- Infrastructure consolidation. Virtualization can significantly reduce hardware and electricity costs. Most of the time, computers today only use a fraction of their potential power and run with low average system loads. A lot of hardware resources as well as electricity is thereby wasted. So, instead of running many such physical computers that are only partially used, one can pack many virtual machines onto a few powerful hosts and balance the loads between them.
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox
To get to the archives you need to run software called: The Warrior.
The warrior is a virtual machine, so there is no risk to your computer. The warrior will only use your bandwidth and some of your disk space.
The warrior runs on Windows, OS X and Linux. You’ll need VirtualBox (recommended), VMware or a similar program to run the virtual machine.
Janine The Barefoot
Wacky Norwegian Woman
Already?
What is the problem with these people? It is too early to have been banned already. Even I usually need more than three months to get kicked of some places. :-) just kidding, but I just think that people have such boring lives that they need the excitement of creating chaos online. It is ridiculous.
duzit
Member: Rank 6
I come here to enjoy, have fun and relax, not to deal with other people's issues◆◆◆♡♡♡◆◆◆
DeJoHnNiE
Member: Rank 4
This is why there are three kinds of people on the internet when it comes to rules and behaviour.
One that follows the rules, one that breaks the rules and one that enforces the rules
Janine The Barefoot
Wacky Norwegian Woman
I'd like to add that I've had numerous conversations with CSM1 and all of them have been respectful, fun and funny! That's a member who's a "keeper" IMHO!
Janine The Barefoot
Wacky Norwegian Woman
And you, fearless leader, are the one the rest of us trust implicitly to keep that peace for us!One that follows the rules, one that breaks the rules and one that enforces the rules
chainsaw_metal1
Member: Rank 8
Aw, shucks. Thanks, Janine. Back at ya.
Janine The Barefoot
Wacky Norwegian Woman
Part of the problem was that most of us knew that "A" owned IMDb and that it wasn't about the money involved in keeping mods on the boards. Or the "problems" involved with the "trolls". It took about half a brain and 3/4 of a hot dog to figure out that "A" has big deals going with both broadcasting networks (their own as well), public networks and film studios all of whom have a very vested interest in keeping their "products" on the air. "A", for example, sells moves that are 20-40 years old to APMembers in a choice of SD or HD. Versions which start at about $15.99 (USD) a pretty fair amount of cash when you consider that you can buy the same film, with all the bells and whistles, in the HD, DVD format, WS with all the "extras" in "like new" condition, delivered to your door about 3-4 days from the day on which you make the purchase for about $7.00. None of which has anything to do with the mark-up on buying movies "new". All you have to do is take a look at any "Free with AP" list of films and you'll start to realize that AFTV is one brilliant, moneymaking sham! It's a TV Ponzi scheme that makes you feel good because you've "purchased" it and therefore now "own" what you want to see..... Not so oh wise and studied one.... The longer you have your FTV the more you realize that it's designed to mirror a Vegas slot machine. You keep putting $ in but you rarely get back out what you've paid in.
OK, so I'm getting a hard copy. If I want it add it to my "Amazon video library" I'll have to download it onto my laptop and then upload it onto my "A" cloud network". But it's there and it's mine. Important to note because the small print of a digital download is that "A" reserves the right to remove the digital copy from your library at any time and for any reason... usually because the studio involved, or the corporation that owns that studio has decided that they want to release a new version or reboot the franchise or whatever reason they can come up with that will add to their bottom line for whatever reason they decide is valid. And "A" will tell you this up front and also that there's nothing you can do about it except turn around and repurchase whatever new version they've come up with. So whatever you "buy" from them may disappear at any time, for any reason they choose. Unless you've bought the hard copy and actually own that. So think about it... I want to buy "In & Out", in digital form (a film released in 1984) and I've got to pay the full-ticket price for a movie that's about 40 years old just so I don't have to store the hard copy and want to buy digital instead and there's nothing I can do about it except pay what Amazon is asking.
Nothing, that is, except install KODI on my Fire TV Box where I can watch anything that can be posted online for free, which is almost everything. So suddenly, I don't need to buy from Amazon anymore and believe me, when they decided to shut down IMDb, I stopped buying from them.
Let's also remember that IMDb was one of the largest sites of it's kind online and that millions of people went there first to decide what to spend their hard-earned dollars on. So If, for example, the average person was trying to decide what movie to go watch over the week-end, maybe they'd check what was being said about it on IMDb first. Then, maybe, based on what was being said on the site, they decided not to go to the movies, that they'd wait for it to come out on DVD instead. How many millions do you suppose that cost the studios? If you look at it from that POV, you might start to wonder if shutting down IMDb was worth more money to "A" and the networks & studios regardless of what they might say to the viewing public.
I don't believe it was ever about "trolls" and/or the cost of mods. I think it was about the cost of free information and that the studios and networks had the ability to control that information and decided to act on it for their own financial gain... regardless of what they actually said to anyone about the whys and hows of it being done. If knowledge is power than the removal of that knowledge also serves to take the power out of the hands of the viewing public and put it back into the "machine" that puts movies on screens and shows on TV.
I believe, and always will, that that was the real reason behind the rude and abrupt exit of IMDb from the internet in the form it took years to build by film and TV lovers all over the world. We don't have that reservoir of knowledge anymore because it was costing them too much money out of their bottom line. So, in the words of Network: "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!".
But what the hell do I know? I'm just another average viewer who apparently was part of the problem and not their solution.
Wacky Norwegian Woman with a grudge signing off!
I use to like Yahoo groups, but sadly most are dead and have porn photos or ads all over them. I never went on their boards, I use to buy on the auctions years ago. Anyone remember Yahoo auctions?
I scoped out Chat.org but still don't know about it. There's a guy on FB that sent me a few messages about joining up on there. TCM boards look well dead at times.
I still like a uk board I been on for years. They had games you could play, and it was fun out playing others on the arcade games. It brought me back to playing games at the arcade with friends trying to get to that top spot and post ASS for a name. Fun times.
Also found this little article about different forums and IMD is on here
http://movietvforums.com/reviews-imdb-replacements/
I scoped out Chat.org but still don't know about it. There's a guy on FB that sent me a few messages about joining up on there. TCM boards look well dead at times.
I still like a uk board I been on for years. They had games you could play, and it was fun out playing others on the arcade games. It brought me back to playing games at the arcade with friends trying to get to that top spot and post ASS for a name. Fun times.
Also found this little article about different forums and IMD is on here
http://movietvforums.com/reviews-imdb-replacements/
Other than this board are there really decent ones out there? I just can't get over on Chat.org the message boards with the replied messages looking like a book. The other one is Movie DB and that one is also a trip to a degree. Sad to say it I just like keeping stuff simple and easy to follow.