4 ms·
Makes sense. I don't see what the big deal is, surprised to see this at the top of the front page? I had to double check I wasn't looking at /new
by roryisok 10y ago
Makes sense. I don't see what the big deal is, surprised to see this at the top of the front page? I had to double check I wasn't looking at /new
- voltagex_ 10y agoWhat information are we going to lose when it's deleted? Will IMDB consider handing the data to the Internet Archive?
- onion2k 10y agoI'd argue we won't lose anything. IMDB message boards aren't exactly a trustworthy source of information.
- sgift 10y agoNeither is HN for that matter, would you be as indifferent if HN decided to delete all comments?
- onion2k 10y agoI wouldn't be indifferent, but also I wouldn't defend keeping them in terms of having value outside of my sentimental affection for what I've written that's been up-voted.
- obj-g 10y agoWhat does being 'trustworthy' have to do with anything in this context?
- buyx 10y agoSince they had rolling expiry of messages, based on what I've seen, a couple of years of forum posts for less popular movies, and a few months worth for more popular ones.
- joepie91_ 10y agoThis seems unlikely. IMDB has always been extremely possessive of their dataset. Even in the shutdown notice, they take the effort to explicitly state "for personal use".
- ivank 10y agoOn the low-volume boards for not-so-popular movies, I've found some of the posts incredibly valuable, and all of that is now going to be out of the reach of search engines.
- lucideer 10y agoIMDb is one of the biggest websites in the world, and they're deleting a large percentage of the content on their site. Seems front-page-worthy if only for the scale of the content being lost, whatever your view of the value of that content.
- hyperbovine 10y agoMessages are a tiny fraction of the content on their site.
- Markoff 10y agotheir boards are pretty much only unique feature they offered, if i wanna information about movie, rate something or create my watchlist i have plenty of options if i wanna discuss ANY movie i watched, i have ONE option which is being shut down in two weeks which also means after shutting down boards i have no more reason to use their site and not switch to competition which i am already doing since i learned this news (deciding between TMDb and Trakt.tv at the moment, the latter one has even thread comments for each movie or TV show)
- roryisok 10y agoOk, that's fair