IMDB, I love you, but I’m moving on.

You were, perhaps, my favorite site of all time. A movie lover’s wet dream. So central to the lives of myself and my friends that it came to be known simply as “the database.

We shared good times and bad. The lists we made and the bets won. (The actor/actress whose career plummeted the most from a stellar beginning? Diane Keaton.) The countless games of “Six Degrees.” You were the oracle for all our “who is that guy” questions.

I’d like to pretend that it’s not you, it’s me, but that would be a lie — it really is you.

In this age of iPhones and Android, you have no mobile version. If I want to find out what else Zooey Deschanel has been in, I have to go to your home page, wait for tons of poorly designed imagery to load, carefully enlarge the page without accidentally clicking on something, highlight the search box, type “Zooey,” wait for the search results page to load, carefully enlarge it, carefully click the correct link, wait for Zooey’s page to load, carefully enlarge it…

It’s too much, IMDB. Mobile Wikipedia can tell me what I need to know. It won’t be the same, but Mobile Wikipedia knows how to treat me right.

I’ll still visit you occasionally, IMDB. You just won’t be the database any more.

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