{"id":197413,"date":"2017-02-06T10:27:57","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T08:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=197413"},"modified":"2017-02-06T10:30:14","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T08:30:14","slug":"imdb-shutting-down-its-forums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/197413-imdb-shutting-down-its-forums.html","title":{"rendered":"IMDb shutting down its forums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/board\/announcement\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is shutting down<\/strong><\/a> its popular message boards, including the platform\u2019s private message system.<\/p>\n<p>IMDb is the world&#8217;s most popular source for movie and TV ratings and reviews.<\/p>\n<p>The company said to\u00a0enhance the customer experience on IMDb, it decided to disable the message boards and PM system on 20 February.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have concluded that IMDb&#8217;s message boards are no longer providing a positive, useful experience for the vast majority of our more than 250 million monthly users,\u201d said IMDb.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe decision to retire a long-standing feature was made only after careful consideration and was based on data and traffic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>IMDb said its customers have increasingly migrated to IMDb&#8217;s social media accounts as the primary place to post comments and communicate with editors and one another.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/163580-10-worst-movies-ever-made.html\">10 worst movies ever made<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Internet Movie Database is shutting down its popular message boards, including the platform\u2019s Private Message system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":197415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[34427],"class_list":["post-197413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-imdb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197469,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197413\/revisions\/197469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}