![]() ![]() In a previous update (Version 6.3), the Flixster app added a new widget for devices running Android 4.0 or higher that finds local movie showtimes. In addition, the new Movies by Flixster app update supports movie trailers in HD quality on Android devices running 4.3 or higher. And I don't know who the administrator that I dealt with was but, I would probably say something if I crossed paths with them today.Flixster has released an update for their app on the Android platform that brings several usability improvements including redesigned showtime and movie theater interfaces, enhancements to Netflix integration, notifications, and easier-to-follow reviews from critics and users. It was bought out, I heard, by Rotten Tomatoes, a far, FAR, far inferior website in my opinion at least based on how good Flixster was in its prime. And within another couple of months Flixster was dead. It was within a few months time that Flixter was merging with another website."Violet.". I don't know if any user actually had their profile deleted but, I had heard that many users' were fed up & deleted their own accounts and left on their own. And I wanted them to acknowledge that! So, I made the rounds on Flixster's forums' and I practically made an opera about my `crucifixion` and how I wanted an apology! I guess I was to late by the time I made my way over to the forums the drama had died down. Well, by this time, I had over 5000 movie reviews on Flixster (both ratings with just stars and full reviews) and I didn't want to just lose them all because I didn't want to let it go. When I told them about Generation Kill they said that it would be removed from the site, reiterating that if I kept making such requests my profile would be deleted. A very specific and direct threat, in fact. They responded by telling me that they don't allow mini-series on the site and that if I kept making requests for things that they don't allow on the site my profile and account would be deleted. I waited another month & requested it again. I felt like they were doing it on purpose. So, after about after 3 weeks, I made another request. It seems that most, & perhaps all, of these arguments, between admins & users, had apparently happened in the forums.Īnyway, I waited about a month & requested Cosmos again. Over what was sometimes referred to as petty disagreements. Cursing, threatening to delete user's profiles/accounts, for, what were described as, disagreements over Flixster policy, requests to make changes were met with outright hostility, some even called it rage. Starting arguments, being abusive, ugly stupid criticisms. Stories about the admins being argumentative. ![]() Some of them were direct allegations from the users that experienced them, themselves others were things talked about that were 2nd, 3rd, 4th & 5th-hand. It was around this time that I started hearing stories/rumors from some of the people/users that I was friends with on there. I informed them of the other mini-series that they allowed on the site & was ignored. I made a request for them to add Carl Sagan's Cosmos mini-series & they deemed it to be a television show because it was aired on television. (Such as "Generation Kill".) They made stupid exceptions for some reason(s). And I didn't really much care about that it's a stupid rule - but, whatever! Although, there were a couple of things that they did not like that were not television shows - mini-series and sometimes even movies that were made for television, including cable, etc and this is true even though they had some mini-series posted on the site. Television shows were heavily frowned upon. Because, death for a website, any website, is guaranteed when the frontline people that handle the day to day operations of the website are those kinds of people!Īs a movie website the one thing that they didn't want to do was allow postings for things that they deemed to be not movies. And, I am convinced, even if the demise of Flixster hadn't gone down like that, it would have taken even longer and been even uglier. They weren't the reason that the site ultimately died but, they definitely made it happen faster. Evidently, those admins were so stuck in the mud ignorant that they really hastened the demise of Flixster. From what I experienced, personally, and from what I read and was told, it suffered most from those administrators for probably about a year, maybe longer, leading up to the demise of the website. Flixster was a very well structured, at least at the beginning, movie ratings website that seemed to suffer most from its own administrators. ![]()
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