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Follow other users and be notified of their ratings and other activities on IMDb
If we just can add our friends like facebook and share our movies and ratings together I think it would be more fun and useful :) And also we can compare our rating history and that would be very good for users :)





raza_hyder
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550 Points
7 years ago
Is there a way for IMDb members to be able to follow other IMDb members? Like, I am looking for a way to have my friends know what I have seen and for myself to see what they are watching too. If this isn’t a feature, I highly recommend it as there isn’t really a place that can offer this.
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Doctor_Phil
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252 Points
7 years ago
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erick_5ivf17f186m94
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7 years ago
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jasher_drake
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272 Points
7 years ago
Is there currently a way to see or follow other users IMDB accounts? I would love a feature to be able to follow my friends & family and see what they've been watching as well as what they've rated it.
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desy_mimi
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212 Points
6 years ago
Imdb is the most famous website to keep track of your watched movies and it can't miss this feature
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ororo_j
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202 Points
6 years ago
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erick_5ivf17f186m94
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1.2K Points
6 years ago
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dusty_bender
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714 Points
6 years ago
Does anyone know, if I can't find these features here where can I find them?
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alireza_nateghi
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6 years ago
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edwardhedelius1
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1K Points
3 years ago
1. IMDb already provides us a perfect way to compare ratings between accounts but this feature seems to be a whole lot harder to actually do.
If I am not mistaken you need to be first signed in to IMDb and then get the other persons url adress to their IMDb account to compare and discuss ratings between each other. My url follows: https://www.imdb.com/user/ur83615375/?ref_=_usr
Note that you can’t search for IMDb accounts on Advanced Search
2. Just imagine for a second that you could skip all the copy paste IMDb-url accounts from discord etc and instead search for specifik usernames through the Advanced Search system by clicking for example "IMDb user" and then search for their username.
3. Only this would be a whole lot of more fun as pointed out in paragraph 2 but now I would like to present the "dream scenario"
Imagine if you could befriend folks on IMDb and follow their ratings, reviews and so on.
IMDb´s opportunities when it comes to staying on the site and arguing about cinema, actors and what to watch provides a whole new level to the website. I am not suggesting that you should be able to chat on the site, just be closer to my friends recently watched movies and so on.
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YasminQuayyum
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70 Points
2 years ago
I know there's a follow option here at the IMDb community site, but why isn't there one at the main IMDb site? Could you not merge this site's functions with your main IMDb site's functions? Or if you can't merge sites, could you please introduce a similar follow option there?
A follow option at the main site would be useful for users to follow the reviews of people whose reviews they enjoy reading and would like to see more of in future. At the moment, there's no structural way of us doing that. It would also enable us to follow the lists of people whose reviews and ratings closely match our own, so that we have solid recommendations from people with similar tastes. You already have the functionality to show us how closely another person's ratings match our own, so it seems a shame to waste that data by not enabling us to follow those users.
Please consider. Thank you
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MyCatDuffyTookMyLaptop
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124K Points
2 years ago
If there's anyone on IMDb whose ratings/reviews you like you can give them a follow and be notified when they post something new. Same for GS!
Just an idea. Thanks. :)
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daniel_argo
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160 Points
2 years ago
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frogstar
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466 Points
2 years ago
This is going to sound like a rant, but honestly it's more of a wistful lament ...
Back in the day, I was a computer and information nerd so I really appreciate the value of a massive, monolithic, comprehensive database. I really do, in an almost visceral and tactile way. And that's what IMDb is - it's in the name. And I love IMDb: been using it since last century, I namedrop it in discussions about film, it's my first port of call when checking a title or credit, and IMDb ratings (with a pinch of salt) are my gold standard.
But that was back then, and the landscape has changed. The web isn't about computers and data any more: it's about shared experience. And *nothing* is shared in IMDb (except in the sense of public/private).
- Why doesn't it integrate with my social media accounts?
- How do I set up a group of my friends so I can see their ratings, lists and contributions?
- Where do I chat with them about films, or about their reviews (I miss the old public message boards, and now there are so many industry models of how to implement that functionality better, starting with groups)?
- I really don't care what the average rating of a film is for Germany or Canada: I want to see what it is among my friends. That's the best possible indication of whether I'd like it.
- When I open a film, I'd like to see how many of my friends have seen it. And how many have it on their wishlists. Then we could go see it together, or livestream it simultaneously, or just moan about missing it.
- Heck, I don't even seem to be able to set up a list of reviewers/contributors that I want to follow ...
There's no wheel to invent for this stuff - it's common functionality across a host of sites/platforms. So where is it in IMDb? Where's the roadmap? Where are the functional enhancements, rather than the endless tweaking of existing functionality and occasional removal of much loved features (cf message boards, or ratings by age/gender).
And if this kind of stuff is not added, then younger demographics will look elsewhere. They already do, tbh.
The majority of IMDb traffic is quick single-film checks (the *average* visit time is just a couple of minutes) and a lot of that traffic is driven by habit and inertia: people probably believe that more people have rated films on IMDb than on other platforms, even though that hasn't been true for a while. So the current user base may be very broad, but it's also very shallow.
I worry that if IMDb can't get people to stay on the site longer (i.e. to engage with and invest in the platform) then it'll become the web's Encyclopaedia Britannica - everyone's heard of it and it still exists, but hardly anyone actually uses it any more.
So please, start thinking beyond the database. Adding friend groups and giving us a place to see their [combined] ratings, wishlists and contributions would be a great first step (okay, first four steps).
Otherwise in a few years, it'll only be us old people using the platform.
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anoboycomru
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1 year ago
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