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Post by snsurone on Feb 20, 2017 0:49:04 GMT
Just thought I'd let you all know.
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Post by geode on Feb 20, 2017 0:55:57 GMT
Just thought I'd let you all know. Yup. |
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Post by femalefan on Feb 20, 2017 1:25:12 GMT
Sad that they shut it down early since it's still the 19th in some places.
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Post by jrdmln on Feb 20, 2017 1:38:09 GMT
They should have waited until at least after midnight pacific time to close the message boards. I always assumed that they were based in California. I live in Texas. The time zone listed in posts on IMDB was pacific time. For example a post from 2:00 AM central time would say it was from 12:00 AM pacific time. I left the Little House On The Prairie message board a little bit after 6:00 PM central time. I went to the IMDB page for Gone With The Wind. I noticed the button at the button of the page that goes to the message board was missing. I turned my computer off and logged back on. I thought that the page just needed to be refreshed. I got back on the IMDB page for Gone With The Wind and the button at the bottom of the page that goes to the message board was still gone. I realized at that point that they had closed the message boards earlier. At least I checked the message boards that I wanted to read one more time earlier today. I was going to check them one more time this evening. I wish that they were specific about what time they planned on closing the message boards.
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Post by darkpast on Feb 20, 2017 1:41:08 GMT
RIP IMDB
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Post by Daisy on Feb 20, 2017 2:00:37 GMT
Yes, I was surprised too. I went to check it one last time and it was already deleted saying they closed it on the 20th and it is still the 19th here also.  |
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Post by Slam Evil on Feb 20, 2017 2:02:21 GMT
Best way.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2017 2:03:15 GMT
The end of an era. Sigh... I still remember my first day as a user on there.
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Post by joekiddlouischama on Feb 20, 2017 3:42:06 GMT
They shut down by around 8:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, February 19, 2017 ... so much for shutting down on "February 20." I was hoping that they would go by Pacific Standard Time, as I was trying to save and archive some material, and they never even waited for February 20 on the East Coast, instead closing down at least four hours early.
What?
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Post by joekiddlouischama on Feb 20, 2017 3:43:25 GMT
They should have waited until at least after midnight pacific time to close the message boards. I always assumed that they were based in California. I live in Texas. The time zone listed in posts on IMDB was pacific time. For example a post from 2:00 AM central time would say it was from 12:00 AM pacific time. I left the Little House On The Prairie message board a little bit after 6:00 PM central time. I went to the IMDB page for Gone With The Wind. I noticed the button at the button of the page that goes to the message board was missing. I turned my computer off and logged back on. I thought that the page just needed to be refreshed. I got back on the IMDB page for Gone With The Wind and the button at the bottom of the page that goes to the message board was still gone. I realized at that point that they had closed the message boards earlier. At least I checked the message boards that I wanted to read one more time earlier today. I was going to check them one more time this evening. I wish that they were specific about what time they planned on closing the message boards. See my previous post; they did not even wait until February 20 on the East Coast! What a joke ... |
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Post by jeffersoncody on Feb 20, 2017 5:18:20 GMT
Just thought I'd let you all know. I think we are all aware of that snurrie. |
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Post by naterdawg on Feb 20, 2017 5:34:18 GMT
Gone...but certainly not forgotten~!
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Post by GlennME on Feb 20, 2017 10:24:44 GMT
They shut down by around 8:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, February 19, 2017 ... so much for shutting down on "February 20." I was hoping that they would go by Pacific Standard Time, as I was trying to save and archive some material, and they never even waited for February 20 on the East Coast, instead closing down at least four hours early. What? I was involved in a running thread with spiderwort on the Classic Film Board about when the boards would close. I figured they would use U.S. pacific time, the time stamp on all our threads, but no-one knew for sure. I jokingly posted a minute after midnight Australian eastern daylight saving time, proclaiming "we're still here, so they're not using Australian time." I got some sleep and resumed posting seven hours later. The next major timezone up for grabs was Greenwich Mean Time, just four hours away. At a minute past midnight GMT, I posted "still here, so they're not using GMT. Next stop U.S. eastern standard time." Fourteen minutes later, the message boards were wiped out. They had used GMT as their time reference. Had they used U.S. pacific time, the boards would have been up for another eight hours. |
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Post by Noddy Comet on Feb 20, 2017 10:40:11 GMT
Just like that, huh?
It would have been nice if they could have at least kept the boards in a read-only state; there were a lot of interesting discussions and useful info on those boards. That's a lot of hours of effort and passion for a lot of individuals just wiped out in a blink of an eye. Cultural vandalism at its most insidious.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2017 10:44:08 GMT
Doesnt matter now. Move on soldiers
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Post by bondfan90 on Feb 20, 2017 11:14:26 GMT
The IMDB boards may be gone, but at least we can come on here to talk about film related topics.
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Post by GlennME on Feb 20, 2017 11:33:55 GMT
Just like that, huh? It would have been nice if they could have at least kept the boards in a read-only state; there were a lot of interesting discussions and useful info on those boards. That's a lot of hours of effort and passion for a lot of individuals just wiped out in a blink of an eye. Cultural vandalism at its most insidious. Someone downloaded all the IMDb Movie, TV show, and cast and crew message boards and put them on another website. www.moviechat.org/You can read through them without registering, and it looks like you can add to the existing posts if you're a member. |
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Post by Noddy Comet on Feb 20, 2017 11:53:12 GMT
Just like that, huh? It would have been nice if they could have at least kept the boards in a read-only state; there were a lot of interesting discussions and useful info on those boards. That's a lot of hours of effort and passion for a lot of individuals just wiped out in a blink of an eye. Cultural vandalism at its most insidious. Someone downloaded all the IMDb Movie, TV show, and cast and crew message boards and put them on another website. www.moviechat.org/You can read through them without registering, and it looks like you can add to the existing posts if you're a member. Good to hear. Thanks for the info. |
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Post by alexhurricanehiggins on Feb 20, 2017 13:34:06 GMT
Sad that they shut it down early since it's still the 19th in some places. I think because Col Needham is British and lives in Britain they went by that time. |
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Post by femalefan on Feb 20, 2017 21:38:28 GMT
Sad that they shut it down early since it's still the 19th in some places. I think because Col Needham is British and lives in Britain they went by that time. That must be the reason. |
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