IMDb Name Page Redesign

Don't you remember the transition from the previous IMDb home page design to the current one? It's the same situation. (Likewise with the IMDb title page redesign.)

@snake77​ We assume you are in the subset of customers on the new name pages, but let us know if not.  

All the features of the old name pages (and more) are available on the new ones and you can still sort any filmography by rating.  

The easiest way is to click the “All topics” menu in the upper right of the page and you can access the sort by rating from there:

Or you can use the blue filter menu directly under the “Credits” section further down the page, see the “See also” section:

For example from https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0428065/, see https://www.imdb.com/filmosearch/?sort=user_rating&explore=title_type&role=nm0428065&ref_=nm_flmg_shw_rtg_ql

For more information on the new pages, please see the FAQ at https://help.imdb.com/article/issues/GMWASETVPLJYXEZE/

Hope this helps.

@mirza_umair​ Please see the announcement at the top of this thread — the new design is being gradually launched so will not yet appear to all customers on all browsers. 

For more information see https://help.imdb.com/article/issues/GMWASETVPLJYXEZE/

@pawq​ Thanks for the feedback.  

Above all, in the list of credits, why in the heavens are personal and global ratings and watchlist status not shown alongside the titles or next to the posters, like in the mobile app?

Personally, I agree and these were two of my favourite new features in the version we beta tested over the summer.  Unfortunately, the customer feedback at the time showed that overall there were too many changes for people to handle at once.  The version you see now is a compromise and we will keep monitoring the feedback as the new design settles in and hopefully they can return.

Curiously watchlist status is shown instead of the poster for unreleased titles... really it should be watchlist icon next to the poster for all titles.

This mirrors the apps and it is because, more often than not, posters are not available yet for these titles.  We are looking at an intermediate split of possibly a “Coming Soon” section where the posters are likely to be available; again this depends upon feedback so your comments here are useful, thanks. 

Ideally there should be a toggle between normal and compact view - the view with mini-posters and character names works for short credit lists, but try scrolling through that for a person with 200 or 300 credits... The compact view should be like before - just a tightly-spaced table with titles and years of release (and ratings and watchlist icon!!, which take no vertical space at all).

Ah, please try the “Text view of credits” link which you can find in the filter menu pop-up via the blue symbol directly under the “Credits” heading:

Hope this helps. 

@Col_Needham​ Thanks a lot for your response.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the ratings return then, because this is my single biggest issue with IMDb at the moment. The first thing I want to see at a glance when visiting an artist's page is which of their works I've seen (and secondarily how highly I rated them), and for those that I haven't - which ones I've already watchlisted and how highly rated the others are. I'm currently relying on an extension for this :(

Regarding the watchlist icon and poster - in the mobile app (Android at least) the poster is shown for all titles, including the unreleased ones, with a small watchlist icon in the corner. This is perfect and it would be great to have it mirrored in the web app :)

The text view might be handy, but really only if it's properly integrated into the page, and not a completely separate page. Also, well hidden!

@pawq​ 

I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the ratings return then, because this is my single biggest issue with IMDb at the moment. The first thing I want to see at a glance when visiting an artist's page is which of their works I've seen (and secondarily how highly I rated them), and for those that I haven't - which ones I've already watchlisted and how highly rated the others are.

Same here! These are also my top reasons for visiting any filmmaker's page on IMDb. 

It turns out that this stuff is still there on the new design, but it's kind of hidden. You have to look in the top right hand corner, find and click the button labeled "All topics," then find Credits - "by Rating."  I really don't understand why IMDb makes it hard to find and navigate to this info, but at least it's still there.

The design seems be transitioned roughly every six years. In my opinion, this is too fast. Kind of reminds me of the problem with smartphones, laptop computers and video game consoles, in the way that companies purposefully treat non-obsolete characteristics as if they are obsolete. Often times, it turns out that the newer engineers are being hired who have no understanding whatsoever of the older systems. How can that even be? Some kind of cascading zeitgeist effect across various technologies, making Gordon Moore's law seem irrelevant even if it isn't.

I should clarify, inclusion of new features isn't mainly what triggers backlash, but the removal of classic ones, no matter how niche.

@jeorj_euler​ 

The design seems be transitioned roughly every six years. In my opinion, this is too fast.

FWIW, the name pages were last updated 12 years ago in 2010 since which time the design has fallen behind in terms of functionality, localisation, device independence, accessibility, maintainability and look.  Hence the changes. 

Right, but the remnants of the design from the generation before last (back when we had character pages and a distinction between "combined" view and "reference" view) only went offline after 2017. Overall, numerous features have been lost in the years following the closure of the IMDb·Com message boards.

@MykolaYeriomin​ Thanks for the feedback.  We have only added things to the new pages and they are much more powerful and flexible than before.  To easily access all categories and open them, see the FAQ at https://help.imdb.com/article/issues/GMWASETVPLJYXEZE/

and then to include episodes, see the “Text view of credits” link as shown above at https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/imdbcom/imdb-name-page-redesign/6351563ae7100d725d54c0bb?commentId=635bd47d232e4267b003d395&replyId=635bf578232e4267b003d404

If you can be more specific about the Cyrillic AKA titles with examples, we can take a look at any issues, thanks. 

Hope this helps. 

@Col_Needham​ Great thanks! Just tried text only mode and it works well for me. I do, however, agree with people that it could have used more accesibility, although typing out "/filmotype" is easy enough for me. Also, adjusting to the new layout took way less time than I thought which makes me wonder whether most redesign problems comes down to the fact that people are creatures of habit. 

As for the Cyrillic titles: when I looked at my filmography before redesign it parsed my location (I assume) and used Ukrainian Cyrillic titles, which makes sense. It is also an effect preserved in text only mode (as seen in the upper picture attached), however this seems to be absent in the redesign (lower picture attached). The third title in the second picture is the same title that you see in the upper picture, but displayed under its current original title. 

@MykolaYeriomin​  Ah, is this the only impacted title? This is actually a data error due to it having two local AKA titles; a correction has been submitted to address this:

The (new title) is redundant and seems to be confusing the display here. 

@MykolaYeriomin​  The AKA edits have been processed now and it looks like this is now working as expected (with Content settings of Ukraine / Ukrainian):

@Col_Needham​ That would've explained it, but no, I'm still having original title on name pages and Cyrillic on text mode and title pages. 

@MykolaYeriomin​ Sorry about that -- what are your settings on https://www.imdb.com/preferences/general 

@frederic_allain​ Thanks for the feedback.  Yes, all of these sorts are still supported. We have also added more sorting and filtering options.  Please see the reply above at https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/imdbcom/imdb-name-page-redesign/6351563ae7100d725d54c0bb?commentId=6358cfc5ef90664918a5bd64&replyId=6358e79b232e4267b00341c6 

@MykolaYeriomin​  Thanks for reporting this.  The new name pages are behaving correctly with regards to hiding non-public lists.  The page you reference is the (same) old technology name list subpage and this is a longstanding bug which you are the first to report.  We have opened a ticket with the appropriate team. 

@Col_Needham​ Glad to be of any help!

@jabrenner​  This is independent of the new name pages; please see our reply on your separate post.