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Thursday, October 20th, 2022 2:07 PM

IMDb Name Page Redesign

IMDb Name Page Redesign

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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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70 Points

2 years ago

Please can you help me. Since page redesign I can't expand credits menu in edge or chrome browsers in regular mode, just in private mode. 

Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled problem with expanding credits

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@janeveleski​ Please see https://help.imdb.com/article/imdb/general-information/why-is-imdb-displaying-differently-on-my-browser/GF2ZAR69V859XLHF ... it is likely a plug-in such as an ad-blocker is incorrectly blocking the page content.  Please let us know if this solves the problem. 

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2 years ago

I've noticed that with the new format, the IMDB will show the birth date of people, but will no longer show where they were born.  For example, Yolonda Ross at https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0743931 shows that she was born on August 4, 1968 and doesn't list the place of birth.  But in her biography section at https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0743931/bio it not only doesn't show that, it also doesn't show her place of birth which is Omaha, Nebraska.  I know it is still in the database because when I checked her DOB when I tried to edit, the information was there.

Was this an intentional change to no longer show the place of birth or is it an error?

Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled The places of birth are no longer showing up on IMDB biographies.

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@justin_6415368​ 

For example, Yolonda Ross at https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0743931 shows that she was born on August 4, 1968 and doesn't list the place of birth.

Places of birth (and death if applicable) are in the Personal Details section, further down the page:

Our testing showed it was better to keep the display of the dates more simple at the top of the page, plus there are other considerations in the placement.  The birth location can always be included in the mini-biography text where interesting, and all automatically generated biographies include it where known, as is also the case with Yolonda Ross: 

Hope this helps. 

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2 years ago

Hate the new format.  Can't find what I'm looking for.  Rapidly getting off of the imdb habit!  And also don't appreciate the difficulties thrown at me as I've tried to criticize the new format.  Don't blame you for making it difficult, though.  I imagine you're getting mostly bad reviews!

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2 years ago

Not a fan of the new web design, but there are plenty of threads about that.

What I don't understand is why "Self" credits remain second-class credits here. A person with 20 "Self" credits and one "thanks" credit has the "thanks" credit as the main entry on their page, with users needing to click the tiny "Self" button to see those credits.

Why doesn't the category with the most credits get treated as the default category for any given person?

Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled Why are "Self" credits still treated as the lowest of the low on IMDb?

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2 years ago

New web design is terrible. Credit lists should be visible by default, at least for the category or two with the most credits. The buttons for hidden credits are so small, it's easy to miss them.

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2 years ago

I want to see movies vs TV shows rather than everything in a row

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@SteveG​ 

You can do that now. Click the blue down-arrow for Filter options, which begin with an option to sort by Project Type.

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2 years ago

Name pages do NOT separate TV and Film despite that being the Setting I have selected.

Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled Name pages do NOT separate TV and Film

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Hi, Eric Simpson. You're right, and it is due to the migration to a new software platform. Hopefully this problem will be resolved in the future. For the time, being you'll have to manually adjust the display of credits every single time you visit or reload an IMDb name page.

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The way to separate the credits on the new format is to use the blue down-arrow at the top of the credits, and select sorting by Project Type.

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2 years ago

The new design absolutely SUCKS!  Go back to the old format and we will forget about this abomination that is the current IMDb design.

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2 years ago

At this point, my only issue with the new name page is that the thumbnails and lists could be in a larger font/size. It looks like it was meant for viewing on a cellphone, and while it may be okay to zoom/squint with a cellphone viewing on a desktop doesn't and shouldn't allow for that. 

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The view on a smartphone has a different default scaling of the images and textual regions, in such a way as not to have a need to zoom in, which kind of has two meanings in regards to the Web and HTML. I don't exactly know how to explain it. I suppose that I should consider saving a screen shot and sharing it here.

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@Baybo​ 

The credit is there:

You do have to expand his acting credits to see it.
Oddly, in this Nov snapshot of his page, I don't find Mad About You at all.

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@bderoes​  Thanks for answering ... 

Oddly, in this Nov snapshot of his page, I don't find Mad About You at all.

It is there, but it looks like the archive.org crawler accessed via Finland in this case:

See the Finland AKA ->

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103484/releaseinfo

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@bderoes​ 

Aha! I originally saw it listed among 1992s, but it moved to where I suppose it belongs--2019.

Thank you.

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2 years ago

Quick thoughts I have after a glimpse at the new design:

Bad thing: still lacks dark theme.

Good thing: Actor/Director/Writer/etc. sections finally have poster pictures preview on them and thank Khala these lists made it to the final release as single-column lists, not a multi-column as they were in earlier versions. It's a bit annoying that you need to press "See all" to see them all, but I guess it's for optimization reasons and also not every user is like me and not every user wants to see a long list of all celebrity's works, so I guess it's kind of fine.

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2 years ago

I've just realized that the films with the "Announced" status do not show up anywhere on a person's IMDb page in the desktop version. Neither in the credits, nor in the sidebar section for projects in development. 

Here's an example from my own IMDb page. My announced feature film Pure doesn't show up in my directing credits (only my post-production film We Put the World to Sleep is shown in the "Upcoming" section), nor in the "Projects In Development" side section (where only 3 films with statuses "pitch" and "turnaround" are shown). It is only seen in my "Known for" section, but only by chance because it happened to be among the post popular ones. 

By default Pure is only shown on my IMDb Pro page and the IMDb mobile app. 

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@AdrianTofei​ Thanks for the problem report.  This is a (new) bug and it has been reported to the appropriate team. 

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@AdrianTofei​  Thanks again for the problem report. This bug has now been fixed.  Sorry for the inconvenience. 

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@Col_Needham​ wow, that was fast, thank you!

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2 years ago

I don't like that the first page of a person's page, doesn't have the short bio with the Read More link AND Their BIRTH DATE AND DEATH If they have.  Keep their Birthday and death on the FIRST PAGE!  I DON'T WANT TO CLICK ON IT TO SEE IF THEY ARE DEAD!

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@kitty74​ 

I see the birth/death dates (in 2 places!) and the minibio near the top of the page without clicking anything:

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I didn't see that.  I have a sight issue so moving it to the right of the screen, instead of underneath the bio, threw me off.    I don't like when they change things.  Especially when it has been the same for many many years.  It is more difficult for me because of my sight issues.  Thanks for letting me know.

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On the mobile version, the DOB and DOD are below the mini-bio sample.

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2 years ago

IMDB used to be simple and functional.  I don't want or need the poster for every film title, along with all of that extra space it takes.  Just a simple list, PLEASE.  And don't make me have to click on a new box for every type of credit.  Just list them all as you used to years ago.  Every one of your "improvements" makes this site much more difficult to use.  Not long ago, I used IMDB every day, but the redesign now makes me frankly scared of visiting again.  I only encounter frustration now, so why bother?

Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled Redesign is terrible

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2 years ago

Complete rubbish. Have you ever heard from Shakespeare "brevity is the soul of wit"????  or from Thoreau  "simplify, simplify"

Everytime you "improve" your website it gets more complicated, busy with pop ups and unrequested videos, and MUCH harder to use.  You changed things around a few years ago, and that was bad......these changes are even worse. Take a lesson from Wikapedia, a site both ordered and informative without all the un-neccesary clutter.