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Updates to Characters
Today we are modifying the display of Characters across IMDb.
After in-depth discussion and examination, we have decided to simplify the display of Characters on IMDb, focusing our on-going efforts towards title specific character details. While in concept, we love the idea of character data spanning across all titles, in practice we do not feel our past experience lived up to expectations. The majority of our previous character pages were dead ends, without any related content, providing a confusing and disjointed experience. The filmography credits were often unusable, and the bios many times were inconsistent given numerous disparate story lines. While the previous experience had drawbacks, we truly appreciate all the hard work of everyonewho contributed to characters over the years. That said, as of today, we are simplifying the experience, allowing us to retain the character concept while building a foundation for future growth.
With today’s release we have begun this transition. Our new character experience will support title specific images, quotes, and keywords. Moving forward we will no longer support character filmography, biographies, videos, character lists or polls. To aid in this transition, we are temporarily retaining our prior character experience until Dec 6th. This will provide our users time to archive any character lists, polls or biographies which they previously created or contributed towards. If you wish to migrate any character lists or polls, we recommend rebuilding the content with an image list. Existing character lists can also be archived by selecting the “Export this list” option. During this transition, we have temporarily retained the character search option, but will suspend support after Dec 6th. In the coming months, we plan to re-enable character search based on our new experience.
We understand this is a significant change which was made only after careful consideration. We appreciate your understanding.
Here is an example of the new experience
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080684/characters/nm0000148
Nic
After in-depth discussion and examination, we have decided to simplify the display of Characters on IMDb, focusing our on-going efforts towards title specific character details. While in concept, we love the idea of character data spanning across all titles, in practice we do not feel our past experience lived up to expectations. The majority of our previous character pages were dead ends, without any related content, providing a confusing and disjointed experience. The filmography credits were often unusable, and the bios many times were inconsistent given numerous disparate story lines. While the previous experience had drawbacks, we truly appreciate all the hard work of everyonewho contributed to characters over the years. That said, as of today, we are simplifying the experience, allowing us to retain the character concept while building a foundation for future growth.
With today’s release we have begun this transition. Our new character experience will support title specific images, quotes, and keywords. Moving forward we will no longer support character filmography, biographies, videos, character lists or polls. To aid in this transition, we are temporarily retaining our prior character experience until Dec 6th. This will provide our users time to archive any character lists, polls or biographies which they previously created or contributed towards. If you wish to migrate any character lists or polls, we recommend rebuilding the content with an image list. Existing character lists can also be archived by selecting the “Export this list” option. During this transition, we have temporarily retained the character search option, but will suspend support after Dec 6th. In the coming months, we plan to re-enable character search based on our new experience.
We understand this is a significant change which was made only after careful consideration. We appreciate your understanding.
Here is an example of the new experience
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080684/characters/nm0000148
Nic
stefano_stefano
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6 years ago
That said I hope to have back pages about significant characters who spanned multiple works, such as D'Artagnan, the Popes, the POTUSes, Robinson Crusoe etc.
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karine_boulanger
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william_james_m
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6 years ago
I was using these character lists to know which episodes of particular shows had the character my daughter likes in them. Like, which episodes of The Lion Guard have Simba? Stuff like that. And now I cant. I don't really see how I am getting any satisfaction from any of this.
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christian_mcintire
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6 years ago
As this destruction continues, I will spread the word against the site and encourage a boycott through my contacts in the film and television industry. Shame on you for spoiling this once great resource.
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cabel_john_gribben
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rubyfruit76
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6 years ago
Thank you.
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vhavnal
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cyber_turnip
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6 years ago
A character filmography for The Joker from the Batman franchise, for example, can often be rendered somewhat useless due to the hundreds of fan-films listed on IMDb alongside all of the "real" movies where the character has been played. It would be great if the option existed to filter between the two.
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jacek_bogucki
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6 years ago
what happened to them? how we're supposed to see all Sherlock Holmes versions now or compare Batmans?
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andy277
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6 years ago
Hello, let's say I want to search every "cowboy" character, where do I go to search it on imdb so I can have a whole list of movies with cowboy in it ???
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er_kfr
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6 years ago
when i check my lists and i cant fin my character list what happened ? i want them back what can i do ?
thanks...
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CuriousUserX90
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bderoes
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6 years ago
Any chance you'll be announcing functionality and timeframes for new character pages soon? If so, can you please add it to the original announcement? Even though this thread is "only" 3 pages long, I still didn't want to read through it to see if anything good had been said about character filmographies.
I didn't use them often, but today I had 2 uses:
Not a world-peace level issue (then again, what if a world leader gets cranky because of changes here, and, and, ... ), but it would be nice to know what the future likely holds.
Or are character filmographies officially not on any foreseeable horizon?
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michael_schlesinger
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6 years ago
My main peeve is the loss of "character" linking. It was easy to look up how many times a character had been used, or how many actors had played him/her (and how many times). Now no longer possible. :-(
Note: This conversation was created from a reply on: Upcoming changes to several IMDb features.
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ryan_jedidiah_freeman
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6 years ago
Just found out this has disappeared just as I was trying to find out which actor replaced another actor in a TV Series...
i.e. Game of Thrones changed the actor that played "Daario Naharis" played by "Ed Skrein" replaced by "Michiel Huisman"
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