Add a thumbnail view to image galleries

@Pencho15​ Is this after applying the appropriate filters?  The filter can help you quickly locate specific images across a variety of criteria. 

@Col_Needham​ Sometimes the filters won't help. For example, I might be looking for an image not of a particular person but of something specific like a car chase, a sunset, some character doing an specific action but caring about the action, not the person portraying it (this is something we do when making image list for polls).

Before I could just look at the thumbnails and quickly find of there was something useful before moving to another page, with the infinite scrolling and the different sizes of images that I am unable to opt out from I have to scroll a lot and get a lot less visual information than before on each screen, so finding this things that may be hidden in the farther part of the images is tiresome and annoying.

TV series may have thousands of images, scrolling all to try to find something is incredibly hard and it is much slower than with pagination, not mentioning that opening an image and closing it forces you to start back at the beginning and scroll all the way back to where you were before (Yes, I know you can open the image in a different tag, I often do, but when you forget and just click is terrible)

@Pencho15​ Thanks for the feedback.  We will pass this along to the photos team. 

@Col_Needham​ This remains an issue is there any update? For example, I'm currently trying to find images featuring the Seine river, no filter helps to find this.

When I look at a gallery to find still frames I get this:

Only one image and a third of another one in each screen, instead of looking at thirty thumbnails at a time which allowed me to quickly find this kind of things. I just have to scroll, and scroll and scroll to look at everything time consuming and tiring, and if by mistake I click on an image to open it, then it's back to number one thanks to the infinite scrolling.

If mobile users like this kind of things, isn't it possible to have a view for them and a normal and easy to navigate view for desktop users? 

Of course images in galleries with hundreds of images have become virtually impossible to find. I can't remember a chage that I have disliked as much as this one.

@Pencho15​ Thanks for the follow-up.  Your comments seem to imply that the new design is only for mobile users, whereas it has actually been designed, built, and tested with a wide range of screensizes in mind.  Our detailed research on the old interface showed that the thumbnails were considered too small by most customers; and also not being able to see all images on the same page led to flip-floping between screens of these small images when trying to locate specific ones (even though your own experience is different).  On the other hand, the new interface fixes both of these major problems and has less friction for most customers.  While we acknowledge that some care is needed to open an image in a new tab to avoid losing your place, in general the number of times a full size view is required ought to have decreased given the larger image sizes. 

Given the success of the new page and the increased engagement with the new layout, we are not planning any further changes, sorry.   However, we will split this part of the thread into a separate Idea thread such that other customers can vote and comment upon the desire for an additional (vs. replacement) thumbnail view. If there is significant demand, this will assist in future prioritisation of the view. 

Finally, we refer you back to this section of the latest annual contributor's letter at https://contribute.imdb.com/czone/top_msg:

As we have always done, IMDb needs to adapt and grow to remain relevant to entertainment audiences in 2024 and well beyond. We want today’s new entertainment fans to benefit from IMDb as they start to discover titles, people, and stories - hopefully we will be their constant entertainment companion throughout their lives, just as IMDb has always been for me.

We have a responsibility to ensure the fruits of previous hard work and data contributions are accessible to a worldwide audience for the next 33 (and more) years. This does require the acceptance of change and an appreciation that the presentation of information online is always evolving. What once worked fine when technology was simpler, when expectations were lower, and when the content types IMDb covered were smaller, will not always work as well today. We are heading into the final stages of a multi-year rebuild of IMDb which will see us long into a future where: we grow data types to match the changing entertainment landscape; we cover more languages as entertainment becomes more globally accessible; we support more ways to discover then watch/listen/consume entertainment; and we are more consistent/accessible across a growing range of devices. It is an exciting challenge for us.

Thank you for your understanding. 

@Pencho15  This is the new idea thread with the posts from the main announcement moved over.  We took the liberty of including some of your later comments in the main idea. 

Hello everybody, I am a top contributor (over 200,000). All contributions were made manually, one by one, no robots were used. I work on my desktop computer. I do not use a mobile except to use it as a phone. I am old school. 

I like the new photo gallery design very much, but I would appreciate an alternate  way, a second way to visualize the images (even if it were a DEVELOPER MODE only). I loved the old design: 50 images per page, all the same size. In any design, showing the description of the image while roving the mouse pointer over the thumbnail/photo would be fantastic.

Thanks.