What's this gay shit?First the message board, and now I can't even read reviews?
>>220039583Bezos strikes again.
Wait this is new?
>>220039583Saw this pop up the other day and laughed. I'm not going to make an account I'll just find an alternative, retards.
please show your ID before reading user reviews
>>220041435what's the alternative anon? everything is web 3.0 hell
i haven't been able to search Flickr for two weeks.
I WARNED YOU DAYS AGO AND YOU DIDN'T LISTENNOW ENJOY NO MORE REVIEWS WITHOUT LOGIN, YOU FAGGOTS
>>220041519It's not like we could do anything about it.
>>220039583>google my imdb username>two different imdb message board archivesI didn't consent to this
>>220039583They realized users hate the garbage being made.
phew, the parents guides are safe. i can still see which of my kinos have tits + gore.
>>220041638you quite possibly actually did.>tfw in a semi-famous bash.org post>tfw bash.org goes down out of nowhere>tfw users archive it all somehow anywayjust some teenage cringe, i was happy when i thought it was gone forever ;_;
>>220041566you could have been angry several days before
>>220039583Every fucking website now requires you to sign in with your social media accounts and give your ID and scan your faceThe internet is fucking SHIT now
>>220039583They took away my lists too
>>220039583Why are social media websites today just allergic to forums? Why aren't there threads and forums on Letterboxd? Why did IMDB remove theirs? Why do I have to use 4chan or fucking Gamefaqs in order to have this?
>>220041945remember how insane moot looked for making 4chan 2 require Facebook Connect?
>>220039583https://moviechat.org/
>>220041493I haven't looked in depth yet, but the internet has become absolute garbage so it'll probably be hard to find.
>>220041992The narrative must be controlled
>>220041992They want to consolidate the internet to a few websites. It's crazy how shitty it's gotta.
>>220041992forums needed moderators and caused legal issues
>>220041992The entire reason for consolidating the internet into a few sites was to control discourse.
>>220039583I miss the message boards.
>>220041992i never thought we'd take fucking FORUMS for granted. they were just...there. they've gone the way of guestbooks. 'forums' as a concept are now Reddit/Discord.
>>220041992not worth the upkeep and it's easier to bury unfavorable reviews. them locking this shit down buries them further, they KNOW the general public won't make accounts. the average person isn't clicking into all the reviews.
I wonder if this is meant to cover up the recent demographic skew on imdb.
>>220041992Rateyourmusic still has a pretty active forum
>>220041945I never really thought I'd say this, but I'm quickly coming to terms with just cancelling my internet connection at home. There's almost zero point outside of shitposting here.
as much as I hate this shithole and want it to die asap and all its users get testicular torsion I have to admit that somehow it's the last bastion of free internet and it's the thing that I presume keeps all of us retards stuck here unable to move onthink about itno login bullshit such as >verify your email >we will send you a code >please verify your age>access from another device/location detected please confirm loginand most importantly no bullshit such as infinite scroll or algorithms that just keep you staring at garbage all day because the golem must be bombarded all day every day with ads and demoralization AI slopthere's just too much friction going on, I just want to discuss games/movies with likeminded individuals and call faggot retards those who have a different opinion than mine (I don't do this often I swear) because that's effectively all that internet isI weep for gen alpha, I was born and had a brief moment of PC/Internet experience before the advent of iphone and twitter, one day you will tell a kid that there was a time in the past when you could just post on some website with random credentials withing flashing your ID and they would look at you as if you just dropped from the moon or some shitand the worst thing yet is that people are perfectly conscious of this or they just pretend not to care/think about it, everyone realizes perfectly that governments spy on you and that your data is how you pay to stare at AI slop content on the web for free, but it seems that letting go of AI slop content is just impossible and they are totally ok with that, dragging everyone else down with them (because unless you live in the fucking woods at the edge of some remote location you just can't escape it)
>>220042974> bullshit such as infinite scroll this actually breaks web browsing. the back button no longer works as intended, and a 'web page' ceases to be the page of content that a URL points to. instead it's some JavaScript-required mess that actually maxes out your CPU, just to render a few posts on the screen.we decided shit like Flash and Java were too NON STANDARD yet this is what we shifted towards? fuck the internet. it's been dead for a long time, AI slop was just the final nail in the coffin.
>>220042974I only use 4chan because there's no alternative. I cannot go anywhere else to talk about the things I'm interested in in a forum like this. There's reddit but all the users there are faggots.
>>220042768This but downloading media and sadly nowdays at russian video places because they are shutting down all my old blogs and forums for old movie shit
Those were the good ol days.
>>220043349I miss when Brendan Fraser replied in the forum at the critics, and nowdays he's an oscar winner
>>220041992Silencing dissent
00s to early 10s internet was wildeverything was free, articles, site sections, little to no ads - because the internet was thought as complimentary to real lifenow ads are fucking everywhere and everything is paywalled
>>220046012And moderated strictly and run with shitty algorithms. >grape>unalive >self delete>young human>corn
>>220041493LetterboxdAlthough why read reviews from people anyway until after
>>220046012> little to no ads - because the internet was thought as complimentary to real lifenah you are kidding. flashing banner ads, pop-ups, etc. proper adblockers took WAY too long to arrive. Google used to be considered 'the good guys' because their ads were just tiny little blocks of text, and they were rolling in money from that.but yeah, imagine telling our past selves there'd be actual video adverts, even inside other videos. 30+ seconds of someone talking about a product. that's some dystopian shit you'd invent for a story: 'to browse the web in the future, users have to watch a Pepsi commercial first.'
>>220039583Nepo cunt cara destroyed imdb boards
>>220041992because it makes everything a lot easier to track down, control, and farm for LLMs
I don't even know when breaking news happens until like a week later because every website has cloudflare blocks or they mandate signing up and showing ID. fuck that
>>220046126Letterboxd is literally the Twitter of movie review sites and that is not a compliment. It's a mobile first platform that attracts a mobile first userbase.
>>220042768True. Maybe have some kind of concession where you have access to the modern-day equivalent of an internet cafe from 1996 where surfing the web was a deliberate activity, except you'd just go there to shitpost on 4chan while drinking your coffee and then go about the rest of your day with no other internet access
>>220039583AI scrapers are raping website servers every second. That's why.
>>220039583Everything bought out by the tech giants goes to shit. It was gearing towards a centrally micromanaged "society".
>>220050316Same AI that allows Amazon et al to lay off 10% staff at minimum. Problem reaction solution, sure.
>>220049069more like the BlueSky of movie reviews in this timeline now
>>220046012>>220043202>>220043098>>220042974It's such a goddamn shame
Pitchfork did the same thing and it's insanethey can't possibly make enough money that it's worth alienating a userbase
>>220041435This.
>>220039583this is bullshit
>>220041992Because forums and message boards are places of discussion & conversation. And that sort of person-to-person discourse needs to be tightly controlled, otherwise it can become a practical breeding-ground for thoughts & opinions that The Powers That Be do not personally approve of. They need every platform policed as heavy-handedly AND one-sidedly as places like Reddit.However, exerting and maintaining that level of censorship and control over a platform is a very big investment of time and effort. It's much, much easier for them to simply maintain that level of censorship and control over one or two places than it is for them to do that over a dozen or more platforms. So the more that number of total still-viable platforms allowing actual doscussion gets whittled-down, the better things are for them and their agenda.
>>220041992It costs money to moderate. BUT people can also bash movies or actors which is bad for business since IMDb is owned by Amazon, which is a website basically set up to sell DVDs.
>>220039583They want you tracked at all times.
>>220042191I don't remember this.
>>220041945The entire internet is coke and ketamine addicted Gen Xer tech bros lording over an army of retarded Indian coders setting up systems to benefit Indian engagement farmers. It's hell. A stinky, rapey, brown hell.
>>220041729HAHA DISREGARD THAT, I SUCK COCKS
>>220055057KYS racist retard
>>220039583people were using the review feature to actually review movies. that's very dangerous for advertizers.
>>220041519We didnt listen!!
>>220041992they want everything to be top-down and not organic at all. like how tiktok just feeds you videos. this has been happening gradually for years. instagram changing from chronological post feed to some other shit. youtube focusing less and less on the whole subscription feed and pushing people more towards just using the home page. they hate any freedom
>>2200460122000s internet was great and a bastion of creativity. Smartphones took a little while to take off since it wasn't until 4G became more widespread that they really became popular and that was the early 2010s. Totally coincidentally, that's when more normalfags started using the internet and when it started going to shit. Thirdies getting 5G and cheap Chinese smartphones was the killing blow.Notice how most of the actual great 4chan content is basically from the 2000s or very early 2010s (pre-mass smartphone adoption by normalags) and since then all that's been created is endless jak and frog variants?
>>220041992No algo on forum, you see the thread list and voila, no infite scroll
>>220042974Great post. The "internet" will soon all be some kind of all-encompassing mega-Reddit. I cannot tell you how much I miss places like Forumplanet. Or how much I miss the time when connecting to the Internet took a modicum of intelligence. A time before the global south gained access and treated it all like their own personal shitting street.I am also convinced that I will be retroactively criminally charged for all the stuff I've wrote on this site throughout the years. The old Internet will be mined for evidence of thought-crime and the guilty put before a zoomer court.
>>220039583>This extra step helps us keep IMDb's reviews a space for genuine, human voicesReading reviews compromises that? They would have a (bad) point if it was just for writing reviews, but that makes no sense at all
>>220056764>A time before the global south gained access and treated it all like their own personal shitting street.Most of them don't know English, your Indian derangement syndrome doesn't apply to American corporations censoring forums and social media to make them more ad friendly for advertisers, or Western governments aggresively pushing age verification in order to censor dissent.
>>220056276>Notice how most of the actual great 4chan content is basically from the 2000s or very early 2010sYou can keep telling them this, but they’ll never believe it. They can’t conceive of pre-2016 4chan because they were never here. Pre-2008 quality would fry their brains.
>>220042654>I wonder if this is meant to cover up the recent demographic skew on imdb.???What did I miss?
Honestly if smartphones were banned society would improve 300%. Restrict the internet to actual computers and it will all fix itself.
>>220043349Ugh gay. That was the beginning of the end.
>>220046197???
