milo bloom

The site owners just announced on Facebook that they're moving the site to a new server and they recommend downloading a copy of your collection.

Choose My Collection in the upper left, and the bottom option is Export collection.

coyoteblue

Done. It's woefully out of date, but even so...

milo bloom

I have not been able to reach the site for a couple days.
I’m still not clear if the mean to bring it back in some fashion or not.

I may try to put my exported data into a spreadsheet going forward and just keep my wishlist in Notes on my iPhone.

milo bloom

They've confirmed on Facebook that Aficionado is dead.

This isn't how the internet was supposed to work. It was supposed to be for the people, the communities could take care of each other. All our work over the years is gone.

flansered

Honestly I'm surprised that it lasted as long as it did. I exported my collection prior to the shut down, but really I will probably never use it and I kind of dread the thought of importing my collection into a new database.

JordanGLC

Sad to see it's official. I spent a lot of time contributing new titles and updating existing ones, trying to do my part to keep it worthy of maintaining. There's gotta be someone out there that can appreciate what it is and has the resources and ability to bring it back.

coyoteblue

This is a rerun of dvdspot, though it stings a lot less.

b2net

This could be another opportunity for DVDTalk to capture the functionality of that site and integrate it here. This increasing the value of this site to more users.

JordanGLC

Seconded!

milo bloom

How do we get the attention of the right people?

JordanGLC

I used the 'Contact Us' below to suggest they acquire it. Maybe the more that do that the better.

milo bloom

Done, and I'm going to change my signature to suggest others do the same.

JordanGLC

Do you have a Facebook account? It might be good idea to go to to the filmaf Facebook page and ask people there to do the same. I don't have an account otherwise I'd do it.

milo bloom

I put a message in their Facebook page.

PhantomStranger

What I think happened is that no one wanted to pay the server costs anymore for the site and the guy's sudden death didn't give them much time for planning another solution. The web domain is already gone and up for sale.

I agree losing the site entirely is terrible since there was so much well-catalogued media data on it.

JordanGLC

There's a new post on the FB page if you haven't seen it yet. Basically offering it up to anyone who is interested in taking it over. C'mon DVDTalk!!!!!!!!

story

Pass it up the line, IBJoel !

b2net

IBJoel This would be excellent !

Josh-da-man

This day and age, wouldn't cataloging be better suited to an app than a website?

Are there any apps out there that do that?

b2net

Collectorz has a PC App, Smartphone (Android or Apple) App, and Website.

LorenzoL

I have been using this site "competitor" app for the longest time with no complaints. For a free app, it's great.

JordanGLC

The thing about filmaf is their data. It is an incredible resource worth preserving.

b2net

Here's to hope that DVD Talk will aquire it

And there is a thread here to provide your endorsement.

https://forum.dvdtalk.com/forum-feed...part-site.html

Gobear

I've been using DVDProfiler from Invelos.com to catalog my movies for years. It's a one-time paid app.

milo bloom

The folks that have the data are looking for someone to host the data, about 170 GB.
Anybody know how much web hosting for that kind of space costs?