Divtal-1 — 9 years ago(February 03, 2017 12:59 PM)

The entertainment paper,
Variety
has released the story.
Look at the last paragraph, which says that IMDb plans to launch an alternative means of communication, sometime in 2017.
That wasn't in the message to posters.
I don't know what it means, exactly. But, it sounds hopeful.
http://variety.com/2017/digital/news/imdb-message-boards-shut-down-1201977581/