what is the point of this site

what is the point of this site
by nothimme
Joined on August 6, 2018
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This is the only IMDb Message Board now
IMDb had many others
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Message Boards started May 7 1999
New Message Boards started Aug 6 2002
about 266,164,000 messages were posted Aug 6 2002 ... Feb 20 2017

IMDb Message Boards Announcement:
We have decided to disable IMDb's message boards on February 20, 2017.

https://www.imdb.com/pressroom/stats/
Feb 20 2017
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each Movie had message board
TV shows had 1 board for each title  not episodes
Each Name of cast n crew had a board
Users: 73,070,000 - not all posted messages on the boards

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