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IMDb Name Page Redesign
We are excited to announce the launch of IMDb’s redesigned Name pages! These pages are meant to make your IMDb experience easier and more enjoyable by providing better access to photos and videos, an upgraded view of an individual’s credits, and improved mobile navigation making it easier to view IMDb features on the go. These enhancements reflect changes suggested by IMDb customers, as well as our own in-depth research designed to enhance entertainment content, discovery, and navigation. More information is available in the FAQ on the help page.
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.
— The IMDb Team
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simontedeschi
31 Messages
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508 Points
2 years ago
I've said it before (when the listings page changed), and I'll say it again. Keep both styles. The original www.imdb.com for everyone sane, and then use the m.imdb.com for the touchscreen experience that you are forcing upon everyone.
At the very least, do what you did with the listings page with the "reference" extension, and have something like 'plain' or basicview' tacked on.
This UX is abominable...
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tallgrassweeds
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72 Points
2 years ago
I have been a member of IMDb since you began; in fact, I am in your database.
And I think this new format is TERRIBLE!!!!!
It was so much better before, for research, continuity, easy on the eyes, etc. I'm sure you will be getting many complaints about this. Please, please return to the old format!!!! Now. Or at the very least, give me an option to do so, because I want very much to be able to do that -- to be able to see my credits in the old format, which preserved continuity with out having to punch a dozen buttons.
I have also made many contributions over the decades, but will find that so much more difficult to do now. In fact, I probably won't bother anymore. Your loss.
Please, please let me know how I can return to the old format. We need all that option!!
Also, why did my database entry change today, when you have a message below that is from 28 days ago?
THIS IS AN UNMITIGATED DISASTER!!! Shame on you.
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Peter_pbn
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14.1K Messages
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326.7K Points
2 years ago
On mobile, the text view link does not lead to the text view, it's just the same as the old All Filmography.
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DonMChristie
1 Message
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60 Points
2 years ago
YUCK.
The most obvious problems I noticed with the first few seconds:
Actors with 100's of credits have no paging capability; you just have to scroll and scroll and ...
If I try to select the name of a character, the page jumps to the movie that I'm trying select the character name from, so I'm unable to select any text.
IMO pages with flaws this obvious should still be in trial mode.
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Kenny61uk
2 Messages
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90 Points
2 years ago
Don't like the new look at all, bring back the way it was, it was far easier to navigate,
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DexteRNL
4 Messages
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92 Points
2 years ago
New design is garbage can't even see what movies are in my watch list now when looking at a actors page. Have to manually click each and every time separately.
I also dislike the UI change before that, on front page/movies. I still prefer the one from some years ago....
And that is not the same as the "Show reference view with full cast and crew (advanced view)" option .....
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ketpiano
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60 Points
2 years ago
I don't totally hate the new design. I think with time I'll get used to it. What I would love to see is the ability to resize the text, because there is A LOT of white space, particularly in the center. Or the option for a dark mode, so you can see the text in white with a dark background
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arlong_85
1 Message
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60 Points
2 years ago
For the love of God, please put it back to what it was. I've been using IMDB for over 20 years and I DETEST this new design. Confusing and just....confusing!!!
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espencer
8 Messages
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152 Points
2 years ago
To make IMDB usable on the computer, set "Show Reference View" in options, and create a rewrite rule using an extension like Redirector (Chrome) for the new Name Page (basically rewrite https://www.imdb.com/name/*/ to https://www.imdb.com/name/$1/filmotype) The only downside is that the text version of the Name Page completely ignores the setting of number of episodes of each series you select in the configuration, and shows all of them. Thanks again, IMDB.
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DigiFluid
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96 Points
2 years ago
I registered just now, specifically to comment on this issue. Skimming through the comments it seems every issue has been mentioned so I won't go into that, but rather just add my voice to the chorus:
This is singlehandedly one of the worst website redesigns I've ever seen. On some level I respect the bloody-minded determination that IMDb has, to make their website (both browser and mobile versions) as user-unfriendly as they possibly can, but my goodness, this one is spectacularly bad. I'm not even going to try to make revision suggestions, because the entire endeavour is so badly broken that it would be simpler to just start from scratch.
I'm not expecting a rollback, because it's universal corporate strategy to dig in even when really obvious mistakes have been made, but it's really what ought to be done here. Rolling back and saying "we made a mistake" is embarrassing, yes, but it's less embarrassing than having to present a catastrophically bad product on an ongoing basis.
Still, I hope that imdb will come to their senses and scrap this disaster of a project.
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ACT_1
8.2K Messages
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173K Points
2 years ago
@Bethanny 😀
??
How many of the 159,000,000 users voted for
__ Name Page Redesign
__ Keep the Old design
melanieabordo
Sat Nov 19 2022
https://www.imdb.com/user/ur159000000/
Col Needham
New
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1000000/
Old
http://web.archive.org/web/20210225014327/http://www.imdb.com/user/ur1000000/
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.imdb.com/user/ur1000000/
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phillip
123 Messages
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2.3K Points
2 years ago
There are several things wrong that people have touched on. One of course is the button you need to click to "expand" credits which as other have said should be an option. If you look any character actor this is just ill advised but by far the worst is the videos section being up top because it's typically displaying giant videos of people whose profile you aren't looking at which looks beyond stupid. If you look at Iron Eyes Cody, you now get this small picture of Iron Eyes Cody and a giant video/picture of Jim Varney because Cody did his movie. The same goes if you look up Andrew Duggan and now you see his picture and a giant video of a girl getting the blood drained. At the very least these giant video previews aren't needed and if somebody was interested they could go to the video section.
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PR_Man
3 Messages
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80 Points
2 years ago
If an actor appears in multiples episodes of a TV show, you can't scroll down to see all of the episodes. You click on the tv show, a black box (containing links to all of the episodes) appears, but you can't scroll down to see all of the episodes
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andreas_palmstr_m
65 Messages
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1.2K Points
2 years ago
It's messy and ugly. Can't we be allowed to use the old version if we want?
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ali_2726491
4 Messages
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448 Points
2 years ago
Hi,
Is there a way to fix the settings when you change the default credit display? Currently if I ask it to show, say, the 'Self' credit list, then go to the list and need to look up the films, it reverts to default after two navigations away. I'd like to ask it to expand the credits and keep them expanded, at least for teh duration of the session.
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