Apparently, it has disappeared. Shame, it was a nice resource.
Oh man, I saw the redirect yesterday and hoped it was just some kind of glitch. BOM has its defects, including really clunky, decade-old architecture, but it’s still better and more reliable content than IMDb.
This is just … awful.
BOM was a nice, concise, easy to use site. A “Just the facts, ma’am.” kind of place. Easy to click to get to most any chart I wanted to see.
They did fairly rapid postings of results. I doubt IMDb will be anywhere as timely.
They have a link to a god-awful, terribly formated, hard to read in my browser, twitter page.
Twitter.
Idiots.
I wonder if there will be a good replacement that pops up.
BOM has stopped tweeting, as has @raysubers, though he sent this out before two final, innocuous tweets:
@raysubers: Raymond and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
I’ll bet the next place we see it resurrected is behind the IMDb paywall.
Dammit, I loved that site.
Amazon bought it some time ago. Looks like for now they are planning to fold it into IMDB which they also own. Maybe make it a pay site for historical data?
While IMDb is indeed a subsidiary of Amazon, IMDb is actually the company that purchased BOM way back when. Since then there’s always been a weak linkage between the two sites, as though they were trying to pull them together in a half-ass way. As I mentioned above, subsuming BOM into IMDb’s already-existing paywall option (IMDb Pro) seems most likely.
Phew! All better now.
Huh. Anyone know what happened?