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IMDb seems to be entirely dead. I would imagine communities of people discussing the amazing details of each movie and giving points of view I didn’t consider and tidbits I didn’t know, but instead it’s … a list of movies, directors and actors, wrapped in megabytes of ads.

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The clue is in the name, its a database not social media.

Despite the name, it used to be a great social website with discussions and lists and so on, until the new owners eventually shut that down.

I for one am glad they removed that. When I visit a database of information, all I want to see is lists of that information. I dont care what other people think of the thing I am looking up, social media is the place for discussing that.

User reviews is 98% of the reason I went on IMDB. For metadata purposes, Wikipedia and other sources are more convenient.

If you want user reviews go to Rotten Tomatoes or Metacritic, you know actual community review sites instead of a database.

Running a website with comments and "social" elements became much harder the longer time went on, can't really blame them for shutting it down.

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