Can this year get anymore insane? (don't answer that)

I was just on FilmAf this past weekend updating my DVD collection and even submitted missing titles, no where on the website was there any information about what has transpired, but apparently on Tuesday (August 4th) the site simply went offline.

There's a pair of disturbingly vague posts on the official FaceBook page for the website, the latest of which was posted on Sunday, that reads.:


And prior to that post, this was the previous vague posting made on July 24th.:


For those not aware, last year the founder of Film Aficionado, which in previous years had been named "DVD Aficionado", was going to shut down the website last year and the owner of another website (DVD Compare) instead acquired it from him to keep it alive. Since then, and I was unaware of this until visiting the FaceBook page minutes ago, that new owner died early last month! His site staff only mentions that they will continue to keep the DVDCompare website alive in his memory, but zero mention of FilmAf is made.

There were no e-mails concerning this shut down. There was no mention on the FilmAf website itself concerning this shut down. It simply happened, and for those who weren't even aware that the website had a FaceBook page, as I only vaguely recalled, to them this is likely just being shrugged off as being a technical difficulty issue.

Direct link to the FilmAficionado FaceBook page for anyone interested in seeing the posts and comments for themselves.:
https://www.facebook.com/filmafi

Well, uh, sh!t.

Although I can't be too upset about it since my account had fallen to some serious neglect after I started buying blu-ray and I had another collection listed there. I'm pretty sure my filmaf collection still had quite a few titles I didn't even own anymore, so if a new website does crop up, I'd have to do it from scratch but I'd also no longer have nonexistent entries haunting the subcategories.

Still, it was the only website where I had all the DVDs I own listed.

This kind of thing will only happen again and again and again. A DVD lasts 1000 years but you need a new website to catalog them every time the guy looses interest or passes away or gets bought out by someone. Some kind of Wiki is the only way around it.

I only catalog LD and PC Engine. For everything else I have a system called “a shelf”. What I have is on the shelf and what I don’t have isn’t. If I owned 10,000 DVDs I’d use Excel and keep that same database for the rest of my life.

LDDB is unique because it’s more about defining what every LD is as much as ones own collection. If Amazon has a SKU for something then you don’t need LDDB level detective work.