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Comment by DarkCrusader2 | Hacker News Reader

Strongly agree here. Letterboxd is the best thing that has happened to me in recent past. It introduced me to almost endless list of absolutely fantastic movies I didn't knew existed especially non-english movies no one talks about. And I just logged my 700th movie yesterday.

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How do you use it for film discovery? I had a look and that use case wasn’t clear. I really want to find a good film discovery service though, so I’d love to know how to use it for that.

(When I looked it mainly seemed to be about rating movies I’d seen and making notes on them)

There are people with different tastes, and great lists you can discover, also they are sending newsletter called "Letterboxd Rushes for you" a weekly Letterboxd digest which mostly evolves with your activities on the website, and includes such as "new reviews by your friends", "popular films with your friends" etc. I like making archives, offline dvds, brochures, posters, and logging movies feels like a digital part of it, and Letterboxd kind of fits perfectly, similar to here actually; people, conversations and content has quality.

Lists work really well for me. Some popular lists like this[1] is a great place to start. Also on each film's page at the bottom, you can find lists it is on. So if you like a movie particularly well, you can find similar one in those lists. Most of the lists are not generic genre/actor/director based so I find really good stuff there.

[1] https://letterboxd.com/dave/list/official-top-250-narrative-...

I do the same thing on IMDb.

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