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IMDb Name Page BETA OPT-IN
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Before launching IMDb’s redesigned Name Pages (coming soon!), we want to provide our valued users with a sneak peak, and extend an opportunity to provide feedback between July 22, 2002 and early August 2022.
We hope you enjoy these latest improvements, and thank you for continuing to make IMDb the world’s most trusted source for movie, TV, and entertainment content.
Thanks as always for all of your feedback – please feel free to post your questions or comments to this thread.
— The IMDb Website Team
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Michelle
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2 years ago
We want to extend a sincere thank you to everyone who has opted-in to the sneak peek and provided feedback on the new Name Page re-design.
Based on your feedback we have made the opt-out easier to find, made user ratings available across filmography types, fixed the expander button in the more details prompt, and corrected the ‘more’ link in filmography. We are planning to add a 'see all button', making it available across filmography as a whole and for categories. In addition, we will be correcting various spacing and click target bugs across the page, prioritizing fixes for data errors, and plan to shift editorial content to provide better visibility. We are also completing a deep dive into the reference view request with the goal of building a more compact view to make it easier to scan a person’s full filmography at a glance.
We will continue to review feedback and make iterative adjustments based on feedback.
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Michelle
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2 years ago
Hello IMDb fans!
Over the past week we have made a couple updates to the new Name page design based on feedback including (1) shrinking the overall filmography card display size and updating positioning/click target prominence of information within the cards; and (2) adding show all functionality across the entirety of a person credits as well as by category. We are also continuing to work on a design to allow for a more compact filmography view to make it easier to scan a person’s full filmography at a glance.
For those of you who have provided feedback, thank you! For those of you who haven’t checked out the sneak peek yet, please do so! The sneak peek will end tomorrow, August 9th at which time all users will be returned to the previous Name page experience. We will continue to iterate on our design based on feedback prior to launching the new Name page (coming soon!).
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bderoes
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2 years ago
So, do you need volunteers to opt-in?
If so, here's me: ur2875687
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Phnxgirl
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402 Points
2 years ago
I am not really happy with this change for desktop use. I'm not sure if the option will still be available, but I use the reference view at all times due to the fact that I like to be able to see at a single glance what productions a person has in. I don't want to have to make 2 additional clicks to see which episodes a person appears in.
And I don't like that you have to click and load each segment/category of appearances. Actor/Writer/Self, etc. The fact that the order of the categories jumps around depending on how you click is frankly confusing.
I do not like that the side pages are hidden up in "all topics" very tiny in the top corner or all the way down at the bottom. I care much more about those things than what lists and polls other random users have added someone to (which is what takes up the sidebars now).
The button to click to show more titles is a little small and innocuous so it's hard to see quickly that there are more titles below. And trailer buttons on each production entry just waste space. Maybe leave that under that first "more" click, but it doesn't need to be visible on the initial page load.
Maybe the page works great in the app or on touch screen devices, but I am NOT a fan when it comes to desktop usage. Please at the very least keep the Reference view available! I am one who learns/takes in information with words over pictures, so honestly, there is just too much visual stimulus on the page as you have it, it's distracting.
I've been using IMDb for almost 25 years, I've been registered with my account since 2000, and the reference type view is what I've loved since day one. I'm sorry this seems like nothing but a slam post, but I'm trying to give you my honest thoughts about these updates. Thank you for all you do!
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don_wood_5537932
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160 Points
2 years ago
I decided to take a peek at the new look so I clicked on it. Big mistake. Now I can't get rid of it. HATE IT. Need help!!! Problem is with a performer's list of credits. Can't get the old list style back. I read somewhere there is a current fix. What is it?
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Dinosauce
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62 Points
2 years ago
A two-column format, with pictures for each entry in someone's filmography, is not useful to me. A simple list is compact, information rich, highly readable, and highly usable. Sortability is nice -- kind of -- but NOT at the expense of broader utility. I don't need a bunch of pretty cards, I want to be able to quickly digest information about an actor or a project.
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bderoes
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2 years ago
To be clear about my previous post, when I need Show All, I need the episodes listed as well.
Think: The Metropolitan Opera HD Live.
I found how to view the episodes on the new format, but I'm looking throughout all the person's credits for 1 title, which may be a stand-alone title or a TV episode.
Is it me, or is there data missing on this page in the new format?
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1125732/
In the old format, she has
Agrippina, Empress of Rome / Lucette, know as Cendrillon / Adalgisa, a novice priestess / ...
I don't find them at all on the new format.
I only find her 17 additional credits for this series under Self (when she was Host).
I also tried this in an Incognito window, to make sure it wasn't an extension causing the lack.
Windows 11, Chrome 103.
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bderoes
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2 years ago
If we prefer to see credits classified by media type (TV vs movies vs video), will we have to invoke that on each Name, or will it pay attention to our preference as it does on the old page?
I like the fact that we can exclude genres!
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virtyaluk
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62 Points
2 years ago
Hello there!
How can I opt-in for this one?
Thanks.
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mbmb
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2 years ago
I think generally it looks good. After being used to new title pages after all this time, it's not that hard to embrace the change here now. I also liked the poster for every title.
I wonder if something is a bug, when you click on a category to include them on list (Self, Actor etc.) it says "Credits excluded. Update genres." for no reason (sometimes it takes a few switching between hide and show I think)
I click "Update genres." button and change between "Sort by" options then it's fixed. But why it's doing that, saying "Credits excluded" out of nowhere?
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DGraf
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170 Points
2 years ago
WHY? IT should not be changed! The new preview of the changes to Clelebs page SHOULD REMAIN TEXT NOT GRAPHICS, and it will become like most on the site now NOT very useful. Not all information here needs to be ties to a graphic... THE TEXT LISTING IS useful having to click add 30 add 30 add 30 to the list to see the whole list is wrong and can not be exported to a text file easily... THIS SITE is going to be less and less useful to us Cine people out here.
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DGraf
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2 years ago
No I do not like the upcoming changes to the NAME celeb pages.
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DGraf
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2 years ago
No, I do not care for or like the upcoming changes to the NAME celeb pages. Not useful as graphics.. Text list of all film will always be more useful.
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domsickles
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2 years ago
I like SOME of the new stuff, but the way you are listing an actor/actress credits; I'm not a fan of. I love the list view that you guys currently use. I would ask that you have a toggle button or switch in preferences that would give us the option to go back to the list view instead of the tile view you have in the beta version of the site.
I do like the new redesign of the header of the page, and basic info of said actor/actress.
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ddb_mnr
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2 years ago
I'm sorry, but I don't see why anyone would want to use imdb any more. I just followed the link for the proposed new "actor" pages and it will be just more of subpage after subpage we are already seeing elsewhere. To make a user hunt through many screens worth of useless commercials and trash to find the links to drill down to the "data" that used to be directly available usually with only one click is to my point of view worthless. Also, cross site scripting, etc., is already making the site excessively slow (I've had to wait up to 40 seconds to expand one "more info link" that should have had the data already in the page html). Amazon has their own site they should be fixing (very little there works correctly any more either) instead of making other sites unusable.
Again, I'm sorry, but I'd really like to see the contributors build a new site for their data along the lines of the way Col Needham had imdb about 1998 before Amazon came in and everything got messed up. With a video collection of about 50K titles and wish lists of hundreds of thousands of lines I'll attempt to continue using imdb, but it is really looking like in a couple of months this user will be gone for good.
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