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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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8 months ago

Please revise the standard Name page settings AWAY from the default 3-or-less categories "selected" to display. This makes it look as if everyone / anyone on IMDb has only worked in at most 3 categories. The default view should be to show ALL categories containing credits, and users could then be able de-select whichever job categories they do not want to see. Literally every name page I land on, I have to go through the process of scrolling (too far) down the page to find credits, de-selecting all pre-selected groups (Click, Click, Click) which releases all categories to be shown, and then I have to click Collapse Below in order to see a full list of credits by category. I don't know what kind of dumbed-down version of the internet the IMDb Gods decided they had to offer the public, but I thought IMDb has always been about delivering full and accurate information, not some algorithmically truncated slice of the pie. Truly hoping the Powers That Be here give us back the full strength of this database sometime soon. In the meantime, I will keep perusing the various competitor sites to see if anyone else gets it right first. 

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7 months ago

The Personal Details section on name pages includes birth dates, but the edit link next to it leads to a selection of data types that doesn't include birth date.

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5 months ago

In "Known for" and on IMDbPro, occupations with company names of the type "visual effects editor: RISE" are displayed as "visual effects editor (RISE)".

Perhaps that is why I am starting to see more examples of the company being entered as an attribute instead of in the occupation field.

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4 months ago

(Not sure if this has been discussed among the 16 pages of posts here.)

Why is the attribute (uncredited) not visible on the primary page? You can see it when clicking on the info (i) icon, but why not include it up front?

Here are 2 presentations of an extreme example:

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0868177/

versus

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0868177/fullcredits

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@bderoes​ 

This must be a new change.

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@Peter_pbn​ & @bderoes This is indeed a bug, sorry (this page was fine back in June -> https://web.archive.org/web/20230606111311/https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0868177/).  We have opened a ticket with the appropriate team (ticket reference #D911299480). 

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@Peter_pbn​ & @bderoes 

I much prefer to view the Full Credits (text only) page as the default Name Page.  Mainly because I don’t always know which title a person is given credit when they have multiple roles associated with a project. 

Is there a link to that page or do you have to manually add /fullcredits at the end of every Name Page url?

@Col_Needham, any thoughts or suggestions? 

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@devans00​ 

There are links ("All credits") in the All Topics menu and also under Credits if you click on the blue filter button.

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Thanks @Peter_pbn​ 

@devans00 from earlier in this thread …

Taken from a longer update here, for those people seeking a quick route to view all credits, please see the "All credits" link in the "All topics" menu as shown in this screen-grab (see red highlight to activate the menu and yellow highlight to access the all credits link):

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Why doesn't the "All topics" button show up on series-type title pages?

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@jeorj_euler​ This is the thread for the /name/ page redesign, but please provide the URL of an example “series-type title page” and we will attempt to answer. 

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I can infer from that the feature is supposed to show up, Col. So, upon further investigation, I see that the widget glyph corresponding "All topics" is there but the actual words "All topics" isn't. Due to the "night mode" setting of the particular browser that I was using, some components of web pages are completely invisible to me. Still, this begs the question of why the meaning of the glyph isn't expressed. Is there not enough screen space for it?

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@Col_Needham​ “people seeking a quick route to view all credits, please see the "All credits" link in the "All topics" menu as shown in this screen-grab”

Thanks C. Very helpful. 

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4 months ago

Hi, I recently had my first additional crew credit and it's coming up as

'Credits excluded. Update filter selections.'

And I want to fix it so it can be seen- how do I do this?

this is my page here: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm14001223/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_1_nm_7_q_Amie%2520Page 

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@amieeeA4​ Sorry about that; this will be a timing issue which should fix itself within 24-48 hours. 

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@amieeeA4​ ... and indeed it did clear-up, plus we are launching a longer-term fix today to reduce the chances of this happening again. 

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4 months ago

Most of my ratings of titles vanish after returning to the name page using the browser's Back feature (back mouse button) at this page in the Actor section:

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000354/

Initial "text-align: center;">

After returning from a title I had not rated:
Similar results from this page:
Using Chrome 115 on Windows 11.
Also happens to the same 2 titles with the coloring extension turned off.

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@bderoes​ Thanks for the problem report.  We can reproduce the same issue.  This is a new experimental treatment to re-include the votes again (as in the 2022 beta).  We have opened a ticket with the appropriate team (reference #P95913939). 

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4 months ago

I think this is a glitch but name pages no longer display uncredited status. The title pages indicate whether an actor or crew member was uncredited but their name pages no longer do so. I would like to think this was not intentional and will need fixing.

Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled Name pages no longer display uncredited status

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3 months ago

This is TERRIBLE! I can’t believe that imdb thinks it is a good idea to summarize people’s credits! When foreign film folks apply for a US artist visa (O1), visa officers look at our imdb pages! They need to see all credits at once without digging through to find them. Do you know why? BECAUSE THEY WON’T! They don’t know that some of the credits are hidden and they need to filter things. They’re not gonna know how to navigate it and they’ll reject applications or ask for more evidence. It took ME several correspondences with the customer service to find my hidden credits and I have been on imdb for years, how are the officers gonna even try to figure out this “new” feature?!!! Do you know how many visa applications you’re going to ruin and how much time and money you’re gonna cost to visa applicants! DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY DREAMS YOU’RE GONNA CRUSH?!!!! This is terrible, terrible terrible terrible… This is “I’m expecting lawsuits” level terrible…

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Another thing is that the transition is happening so slowly that the transition to the next generation will be happening right shortly after the previous generation is completely eliminated, say, four years from now, and then there will just be even more JavaScript bloat and probably some new digital rights managment concoction, ¿HTML5.1?, or whatever Google (the Source) decides to force into the Chromium engine that so many Web browsers use, maybe some non-fungible token nonsense.

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2 months ago

Hello,

I have a decent credit list in IMDB, and often my list is used by other professionals to look me up. I noticed that the credits list now contains a rating. This is a really bad idea, because that now gives the impression that THAT rating is a reflection of the quality of my work. For example, the movie Torque, had excellent sound work done for it, but the movie overall was not a good one - it is rated a 4.1... but, it now looks like I did a 4.1 quality sound job on it... and it VERY much looks like a black eye on my credit list... even though it is not... it was a sound job that I want on my credits list... because it was much better than the 4.1

If you are going to put a rating in the credits list, then we need to be able to hide certain ones from the public, because rating is not necessarily reflective of the quality of our specific work.

This rating in the list is a HUGE detriment to us, and weakens my desire to use IMDB to show my credits list to my clients. I personally feel that ratings have no business being in the database to begin with.

Can you please respond to this.

Thomas Brewer

Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled Ratings in Credits list is bad