I found out today that iMDB, which is owned by Amazon, is shutting down all of its message boards, due to trolls and not having substantial enough internet traffic to warrant keeping them open for all of the actors, directors, films, and TV shows. The official statement also includes saying that social media on the iMDB Facebook page and social media in general will act as a replacement. They pretty much say that social media rendered the message board obsolete.

Personally, I will miss the message boards, as I have used them to get news and updates about my favorite actors' new projects or work-in process films. I couldn't say that all the message boards were useful for updates, but the one that I liked the most was for Christian Bale. That one was probably one of the better ones, since they did a good job in keeping trolls out by reporting them and giving updates on whatever Bale was working on. I also liked checking discussions on films that had ambiguous endings or themes, like Blade Runner. It was also fun to see what funny or peculiar observations people make when they watch films on the boards.

The iMDB boards will be missed. My username for that site was similar to the one I have on here, which was RudieCantFail98.

I'm thankful that this is a great and friendly community and proper moderation has been enacted on this board. Also, I'm glad that past threads on here aren't deleted, since on iMDB, threads could be deleted, due to the site only allocating a limited amount of threads on some actors and movies.