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Sunday, November 1st, 2020 2:17 PM

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Anybody else feels the old recommendation system was more useful?

Several years ago the recommendation system was updated, but while I didn't notice any improvement I noticed that: A lot of bugs started happening (I sometimes find movies already rated or rec.s related to movies which I only visited the page of started appearing, even if they're not on my watchlist, check-in or rated in any way) The recommendations are just a few, when it was previously virtually infinite, and the best recommendations I got usually were in the later pages, and we had more choice anyway, different moods, different kinds of movies watched in the past, and this is the thing I miss the most about recommendations on my profile page. And previously you could see what movies you rated, those recommendations were related to, on the desktop version of the website The previous version of the recs was a reason more to visit the website and rate movies to me, with the new ones it feels like personalized recommendations are not that big of a thing anymore on imdb (no reason to update a thing not broken if you don't care about it much anymore imo).  Now these are the things that I noticed are worse, if you noticed any improvement during the update to the recommendations you can tell me because I didn't. What I'm suggesting is to restore the old system or if impossible even only extending the number of recommendations to virtually infinite like it was, people at imdb know how, we had that before.  If anyone else feels this way too please show your support so it will be taken more into consideration by imdb's developing team Thanks

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To be fair, the main thing I liked about the older one was that the listing of recommendations for a given title had its own subpath URL thus it could be viewed without switching to Title Standard View so as to view the main/root path URL of a title entry. I'm not sure how differently the new one actually functions from the old old. Long ago, back when the older system was retired, I did express my support for it. At the time, I didn't articulate the same points as I have now, so that could've been a factor in Col Needham not really taking an interest in the feedback. I used to try to fight with him over this kind of stuff too, but obviously doing is not a good idea at all. Haha.

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Hi jeorj_euler, thank you for responding, I'm not sure about what you mean: you mean the recommendations of a given movie on its title page had a link so you could see the recommendations to it without having to load the whole title page of the movie?

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Hi, Mirko Mancini. You asked, "you mean the recommendations of a given movie on its title page had a link so you could see the recommendations to it without having to load the whole title page of the movie?" Yes, that is exactly what I mean. Your continued feedback is appreciated. Thank you.

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Your continued feedback too is appreciated, thank you. The sad thing is that it feels like people forgot about the old system, when it was just being changed I made another thread asking why they were making things worse and a lot of people was supporting the cause asking to have the old things back, now either the users don't care anymore or the forum is way less populated since the devs don't care about people's requests (again for imdb's community standard there were many people at the time showing unsatisfaction for the new system but they kept on going anyway, they even said that in a couple of months they would have implement the new recommendations system with the improvements we asked but later they disappeared, so my guess is that they put their hands into something that was better left untouched and now they don't know how to solve the problems anymore, there are even always brand new bugs appearing). Anyway as much as I love imdb, if there will be a new movie rating website with a better recommendations system I'll move there since it's the main reason for me to rate the movies I watch on a website in the first place, otherwise I could even just use a google spreadsheet to remember how much I appreciated them.