IMDb Name Page BETA OPT-IN

I don't know if in other languages, but in Portuguese the biographies of actors do not show the ones written by the fans, just a generic description of the person.

As someone who works in television and uses the site regularly to maintain my credits so that future employers can easily look up my work history and to look up credits of others I may hire or work with, I find the new design incredibly unhelpful.

I want words, not pictures, and I want them to be easily grasped in one view with minimal clicking.  Now there's too much space, too many graphics, too much going on.  There is a reason why most people want resumes clean, simple, and on only one page; we get tired and irritated flipping around. We want everything at a glance and now that's gone. It would be more helpful to send someone to a LinkdIn page than this.

Now every page looks the same. Someone with 600 credits looks just as impressive as someone with 6. And no one has the time or patience to look at pop ups for a list of their episodes under a television title.

The graphics are fine under the "known for" section, but when it comes to the meat of someone's career, you really just want a list so you can really take in all that they've done.  It no longer looks user friendly and two columns seriously muddies the timeline.  People read lists either left to right or top to bottom, not a mix of the two.

Side Note for all versions of this site - How are the "Known For" credits chosen on either the old or new? There seems to literally be no metric for it. The titles under my name are old, random, and not in any way what I am "known for" working on.

I usually don't leave feedback, I disliked the new homepage a couple of years back but kept quiet just made sure to never visit it ever again by entering through title pages only, as for most other things you can get used to them eventually. Amazon recently merged Comixology with it's main site and broke it so bad it did not work at all for around 3 months, a time in which I forgot about the site and have never used it since, I'm only assuming it's functional nowaday. So these 'great ideas' don't always work out.

Now I get to this, got the beta last week before this thread even existed (I looked for it to see if people were as horrified as I was, I just caught up now), I lasted 5 minutes of exploring before my eyes started to feel like I could no longer focus them on the messy page I was looking at, it's just a pure chore to look at, I knew we were getting this no matter what, my contributing ground to almost a stop I was so downhearted, but at least I can use it as a reason to greatly reduce or completely retire from contributing, already my friends and family have all ditched IMDb in favour of easier to look at pages like Google & Wikipedia (people want simple) and I don't know who I'm even doing this for anymore, seems like advert money for a corporation rather than for the people who like to look up Film & TV.

Sorry to be negative but I just despise it completely and had to say so, if you never see me again, this was the reason why. All the best to the great staff who helped me out over the years and the accurate contributors who care(d) about the site.

I wanted to give feedback about trying their new IMDb format  when I quickly  went back to the old version  I HATE the new format   I don't need to see the pictures of  each movie the actor was in.   wastes  way too much  data  and screen space  making it much harder and longer to look up older roles  etc.     Personally I think this new format is a step back  instead of an improvement.   

Just my two cents: No.

When I check out a person's profile I like to get the information in one glance without distraction. This new design basically screams "look here" and "click here". Also, in the old version the credits were basically presented like a list, with one credit per line. This was practical and effective. In the new design, there are now two credits, so you are constantly jumping from left to right. In addition, due to its size limitation, the posters are more irritating than a help.

Sorry, like with the title redesign a few years back, this is just wrong. I understand that the technical backbone needs to be updated, but this design change is just unnecessary. The new design, once again, looks like some UX agency went haywire.

As others have said: ask the members and get feedback on what they like/don't like before you make radical changes like this.

The New page is NOT as easy when looking at previous credits. The existing page is easy to visually skim previous credits. The new look is clumsy and distracting. Leave well enough alone please - or - give me an option to keep the current look.

Thank you,

M Paliobeis

Is this a "database" or a game where we have to hunt and peck for the information we are looking for?  What is wrong with a simple list, IMDB?  Why do you seem intent on destroying one of the greatest resources on the web for movie lovers? 

Not everyone is looking up information on a phone.  Some of the world still uses computers FFS.  Why is everything made for a mobile interface with a touch screen.  You have the money, do like a proper web designer and make a mobile version that is separate from the actual web version.   Stop cutting corners that make this site unusable for people that actually want to still use their computers and an actual physical keyboard. 

Why is everything truncated, hidden, and in a drop down list now?  What happened to web design? 

If it isn't broken, stop trying to "fix" it.  Worked fine before, now it's an ugly, clunky mess to navigate through, just to find the information that was so easily accessible before.  

I have been an IMDb zero for over 25 years. In fact, I am retired from shore business and value the information that IMDb has consistently provided over the years. But I absolutely hate, loath this new format for the actor credit pages. It used to be you could see all of an actors credits in a list view by just scrolling down and clicking on the bio information for more details. This new format makes everything harder to see, particularly on a phone or an iPad and it’s basically “information clutter.“ I don’t need the poster of the film or TV show next to every credit. If I wanted more detailed information I would go to the page for said film or TV show. All this new format does is make everything harder to access and more complicated to find. Please give us the option to revert back to the old page view.  

In the new format of IMDb the age calculator seems to calculate all ages by subtracting birth year from this year or year of death in the case of individuals who are deceased.  This means that if we haven't reached the subjects birthday yet this year his or her age is presented as a year older than it is.  Ditto if the person died before his or her birthday in the year of death.  The old format didn't have this problem.  

The redesign has destroyed IMDB as a quick, research tool.  Those responsible apparently never used it to look up all the movie credits of a performer.  For example, finding the acting credits of David Canary on the TV series Bonanza which would take seconds are now impossible to find. Shame on you!  

@Col_Needham​ I'm very confused. All of your responses have merely responded to specific issues such as how many credits are shown without a clickthrough. Why aren't you addressing the huge underlying issue of why IMDb's developers have changed not only the code base but also the user interface?

Why is the previous "Name" UX--which suits the needs of both casual users and your essential contributors--being abandoned? If there's a reason for that, those of us on this forum certainly can't see it. The whole point of modern software platforms is that they offer flexibility in how information is presented; we're long past the days when hand-coded HTML restricted our design choices.

You started IMDb because you saw that people appreciated having a way to reference (and cross-reference) actors, directors, movies, TV shows, etc. And you welcomed other Usenet users to contribute to that effort. Shouldn't it still be the mission of IMDb to make it easy for fans to both add information to and retrieve information from the system??

Just given this a try but it's not very intuitive. 

It needs an option to view everything as a list, similar to what it's currently like. I can't easily see the projects I'm looking for on a paritcular page, especially as it's not even in chronioligical order. It would be handy to options for a 'compressed view' which can still have posters but is presented more like a list, and an option to change the order of the titles; either by release date or alphapbetically for instance.

@Col_Needham​ 😀

Have You and the Staff looked at the episodes lists on New View ??

Maurice Benard
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001939/

Actor: TV (13 credits)
General Hospital (TV Series)
Sonny Corinthos
Show all 2,935 episodes

New version
https://www.imdb.com/preferences/beta-control/?e=name&t=1&u=/name/nm0001939/

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Victoria Wyndham
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0943920/

Actress: TV (4 credits)
Another World (TV Series)
Rachel Davis Cory
Show all 2,757 episodes

New version
https://www.imdb.com/preferences/beta-control/?e=name&t=1&u=/name/nm0943920/

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https://www.imdb.com/preferences/beta-control/?e=name&t=0&u=/name/nm0943920/

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Frances Reid 
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0717265/

Actress: TV (48 credits)
Days of Our Lives (TV Series)
Alice Horton
Show all 3,016 episodes

New version
https://www.imdb.com/preferences/beta-control/?e=name&t=1&u=/name/nm0717265/

   See More \/

Go Back
https://www.imdb.com/preferences/beta-control/?e=name&t=0&u=/name/nm0717265/

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ACT_1
Mon, Jun 15, 2020
[ Staff: Add episode count ? ? ]

Add episode count to total 'Actor: TV credits' not just count TV shows
This would be more accurate account of the actor's work
like ?
Actor: TV (79 TV shows,  ___ episodes)

https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/imdbcom/staff-add-episode-count/5f4a7ca18815453dba0cffe6

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Please, Please, somehow allow the other format as an alternate! Looking up the Acting credentials of someone who has appeared in 250 TV shows and Movies used to be so easy and with the new format it's insane! Even if the old format was 12 years old, it was working just fine, and the new format does not. On a scale of 1 to 10, Old format, 9, new format, less than 1.

The two-column, image-heavy way of presenting credits is abysmal. I come here to do research, not to browse. Lists provide information densely at a glance; with the new format one needs to cover much more ground going back and forth in terms of screen space. To my mind, an option to toggle between list-view and image-view (and a preferences option so as to get one's preferred view as default) is absolutely vital.

Having to click several times to completely load longer filmographies makes it worse. An "always show all" preference is needed.

I do like the option to choose which roles (director, writer, etc.) are to be displayed. That cleans up the page considerably. I would love an option to choose roles and then display all of the selected credits chronologically (e.g. I tell the site to show writer, director and producer credits and then I'll get a list that goes: 1977 [writer credit], 1978 [director credit], 1979 [writer credit], 1980 [producer credit]).

I also like that single episodes from a series don't bloat the filmography anymore, as long as they remain just one click away.