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IMDb Redesigns Images Subpages
We are excited to announce the launch of IMDb’s redesigned Images subpages! These pages are meant to make your IMDb experience easier and more enjoyable by providing a modern, clean presentation of information with upgraded filtering support 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.
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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@Michelle , Employee 😁
Sample links??
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viivalabamf
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2 months ago
I noticed that the photos page has changed. It seems the list of the tags to the right has been removed and replaced with these awful filters at the top. Is anyone else frustrated by this unnecessary and clunky change? I'm not sure where else to post feedback or get others' opinions, so hopefully this is the place to do it.
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sai_arun_muthusamy
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2 months ago
I can appreciate the galleries having larger preview images. But sorting between stills/posters/celebrities was simpler before.
And this feels like a format too fit for a cellphone rather than a desktop. There should be a way to balance formats for both devices.
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Justanotheruser_1138
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2 months ago
I am another user who feels the images page redesign is less useful than the older design. My primary issue is the old gallery main page had a very convenient grid of 48 (?) thumbnails that were very easy and fast to navigate through, particularly when the gallery has a large number of photos, whereas the new design only allows scrolling through the whole gallery, inconvenient for a large gallery, or filtering, not ideal if you're just browsing. The gallery icon is even suggestive of a grid. I can understand if the new design is possibly better for mobile (maybe) but I would appreciate it if there was some way to get to the previous grid view.
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Peter_pbn
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2 months ago
Last year you changed the "photos" links on title and name pages to link to the first image rather than the gallery (mentioned here, though there was at least one other post). I thought the intention might be to bypass the gallery in the old design. Now that the subpage is redesigned, will you reconsider those links?
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Col_Needham
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2 months ago
A quick update ... the title filters have been restored on the name galleries. For example, Felicity Jones / still frames / Rogue One (2016) -> https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0428065/mediaindex/?contentTypes=still_frame&relatedTitles=tt3748528
There are still two smaller issues still in progress ... the "&relatedTitles" parameter in the URL is not set when you update the title filters, so the links are cannot yet be easily saved / bookmarked. We are also investigating why a small number of photos are not included in the filters.
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Irony58
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2 months ago
I often use the Photos section of an actor's page to find out where I've seen them before. IMDB has recently changed the layout a couple times for the worse (for me anyway).
First, a couple months ago they changed it so that when you clicked on the "Photos" section it gets you to the actor's first photo. It used to go to a grid of some number of photos, plus a link to go to "next page". Going to the first photo isn't really useful, unless the actor only has a couple photos. I'm not going to scroll through 150 photos if the actor is popular. So I go to the grid button, which is easy enough, but seems dumb. Bringing back the grid view as the first view is more useful.
In the most recent change, going to that grid view brings up a single page of a complete collection of larger pictures. That's more scrolling, but not horrible. What I miss from the previous format is the info I would get when hovering the cursor over each picture. It would pop up the where that photo came from and the date. I found that pretty useful and miss it.
Anyway, that's my "feedback" to the IMDB powers that be. They don't seem to have another vehicle for feedback on their website itself.
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Pencho15
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2 months ago
In the last days I have got a new format in the photo galleries, with the hated infinite scrolling and with photos shown at different sizes making it harder to go through all images.
I suppose this is another mobile friendly change that destroys the desktop experience, but in any case I'll ask, is there any way to see the galleries in a user friendly square grid as before?
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Tonio_Fraga
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2 months ago
So now, instead of a succession of 48 equal thumbnails per page, we have all the images in any gallery, regardless of their quantity, lumped together in one single page and shown in different sizes and configurations.
The problem: the classification of the images is gone (posters, publicity, product/box art, still frames, etc.) and I want it back.
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Peter_pbn
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2 months ago
As you say, it is possible to filter by more than one person (or title), but it isn't very clear whether it is OR or AND.
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hgra
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2 months ago
I dislike, like practically all previous Imdb redesigns (the most recent one being the way Export works).
The new gallery features infinite scroll, no pagination, too-large images...
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ACT_1
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1 month ago
@Michelle 😁
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On main Title page - offer choice
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Mediaindex - Large images
Small images & Text
with Mouse-over for names and Pages for 590 photos
Use the "&ref_=" to count the visits??
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Peter_pbn
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1 month ago
In title galleries I thought the list of persons in the filters was recently a complete list (or a search field?), but now there's a dropdown with only a partial list. That is no substitute for a full list.
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Irony58
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4 hours ago
First, I want to reiterate what others have already said elsewhere - The "new" layout of the actor Photos section is not an improvement over the old design. The old layout, where we would get pages of pictures in a grid layout was much easier to scan through on actors with many pictures if I was looking for something more specific than just "next, next, next, ...". Scrolling through hundreds of pictures is annoying. OK, now to the subject...
When scrolling through photos, I will often stop to click on one and then hit the "Back" button to continue. But that Back function often doesn't take me back to where I left off. Sometimes it goes back up the scroll and sometimes it jumps ahead. It seems random.
As for incomplete information, with the old layout, hovering my mouse over a picture brought up a line of text showing the actor, the show the photo was taken from, and the year. The new layout gives nothing.
When you click on a photo, it does show the above info, but some of it is incomplete. I saw one today that just said "Episode 15", but not the actual show it was from. I don't think the previous layout gave the episode of a show, but at least you got the show, which is more important anyway.
It seems the beta test for this layout wasn't super thorough.
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