So glad to see this place thriving
 

Wow ... what a trip. It's been years since logging in, but after seeing an Oscar Pick email from admin, I thought I'd give it a look.

Glad to see some familiar users around here as well.

Looking forward to getting back into the conversation!

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Hey, good to see you again! :)

Yeah, I send out an email or two each year (usually about the Oscars), but a lot of the emails were getting blocked and I just tweaked some server stuff, so I imagine a lot of longtime users are hearing from us for the first time in awhile this morning. Neat. :)

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Welcome back! :)

welcome back even tho i havent talked to u before :D

Good to see you! Why not join in our foreign language film countdown.

Welcome back!

Time to party

We Party Here.
We Party Big.
We Party Now.

Welcome home! Actually think this place is thriving more now than any other time since ive been here.

Time for a high-thrive I think

:highfive:

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This places is dead compared to a few years ago.

Yeah, a few years ago we weren’t all locked up at home with no where to go, so I highly doubt that

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We've yet to have a year where somebody doesn't say it was busier/better/whatever a few years ago. So it goes.

I’m just going by the review section really. A couple of years ago and that was a very popular and busy section. I was looking through a few before and barely anyone posts anymore on there.

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Yeah, I think this is actually a great example on why this is such a popular refrain, year after year: people use the site differently over time. People starting their own review threads was one of the primary ways people used the site a few years ago, for sure, but now they tend to post reviews wherever and don't house them in dedicated threads as often. Probably because the Reviews section has grown a lot (almost 13,000 now), so it matters less and less where reviews go on the forums since we pluck them out and highlight them from wherever.

We used to have more games, too, and I'm sure at some point someone came by and saw that the kinds of games that used to be so busy weren't any more, and came to the same conclusion, even though people were just playing different games.

I don't take offense to it or anything, but it's just a constant in the life of any forum, that people use it differently and the only version that feels good/right/active/whatever to someone is the way it was used when they first got into it.

Join us in the shoutbox! It’s almost always bumping in there.

Cue the techno music

The review section isn't the 'thing' it use to be, I don't hardly do reviews on my review thread (I should work on it more though). Gideon is still pumping out reviews and the Rate the Last Movie You Saw thread is going strong. Recently we got a big influx of members from another movie board that closed...The HoFs, the big MoFo Top 100 Countdowns are all going strong!

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We're #3!!!!

https://blog.feedspot.com/movie_forums/

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Neat. Who compiles that/how is it compiled?

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Jeez, second only to a forum that apparently talks a lot of TV shows with their movies, and then mainly equipment... and friggin' Reddit?!...

... that's some going.

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We already knew we were awesome. Time the rest of the internet knew ;)

EDIT: Maybe that's why this place has been crawling of late?

I'm guessing domain authority and SEO is a big factor. Pretty amazing for this site to be up there with the likes of Reddit.

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I'm ashamed to say I've never heard of any of the top five :blush:

Clicking on the about this list gives this.

Feedspot has a team of over 50 experts whose goal is to discover, rank and categorise popular blogs and podcasts. We have curated over 250,000 popular blogs and categorised them in more than 5,000 niche categories and industries. With millions of blogs on the web, finding influential, authority and trustworthy bloggers in a niche industry is a hard problem to address. Our experience leads us to believe that a thoughtful combination of both algorithmic and human editing offers the best means of curation.

There are several ways we discover new feeds.

Publishers submit their blogs, podcasts or youtube channels on Feedspot using the 'Submit' form at the top of this page.
We have a research team who does extensive research on google and social media platforms to discover new influencers.
Feedspot has in-house media monitoring tools for discovering bloggers in several niche categories.
Our expert editorial team reviews each blog before adding them to relevant category list.



Ranking is based on

Relevancy
Industry blogs (those not favoring a specific brand) are given higher rank than blogs by individual brands(who often tend to promote their own products).
Blog post frequency(freshness)
Social media follower counts and engagements
Domain authority
Age of a blog
Alexa Web Traffic Rank and many other parameters.
We routinely remove inactive blogs and those which are no longer relevant to a given list. List is updated as we receive new blog submissions and re-ranked every few weeks. We also take direct feedback from users to make changes to the lists.

If you have any feedback or would like to get in touch with our editorial team, you can email us at [email protected]

No idea who these "experts" are... :p

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Yeah, hundreds of words to say "sorry we're not actually telling you how this is done."

The drive for the top spot begins now