IMDb Redesigns List-Like Pages

I've been a member since 2008 and extremely active on IMDb (contributing various data, making polls, administrating polls, etc) for ten years. All of the changes I've encountered seem less organized and certainly less user friendly. My usage and contributions have already gone down significantly. I hate to complain but I've heard that you're looking for feedback so this is my two cents. Thanks!

My list https://www.imdb.com/list/ls086167196/?ref_=uspf_t_1 had had steady views for years (at least over 100 views per week), but in the recent 2 weeks (eversince the new interface was official) the view count reduce noticeably (under 50, then under 10). I realised my list could no longer be found by google search (it was first or second search result before), even when using quotation search of the list title. Even when I google "best gay couples and storylines in tv series imdb" now the results do not include my list.

It's not that views are everything to me. I would still work on my lists no matter what. But I do feel kinda sad when I can't search my list and wonder what the reason is.

When I downloaded my ratings list in January 2024, there was one field named "Title" that, if it was a TV episode, added the TV show title to the start of the episode name. When I downloaded my current rating list (05/29/2024), there is a column named "Title", and a new column named "Original Title." Neither one has the TV show title, only the episode title.
I would like to have the TV show title restored as before, or a new field with just the TV show title, or a workaround so I can get both fields.
Thank you.

Hello!
In the past the watchlist section had an option to show only the films which haven't been watched by choosing 'not rated by you' or sth similar. So the link to the list could look like 
https://www.imdb.com/user/ur56223/watchlist?mode=grid&page=1&my_ratings=exclude&licb=0.4122120644039031&sort=list_order%2Casc&ref_=login

Now I can't find this option anymore, the link doesn't work either. How can I sort my watchlist by excluding the watched ones? It was so convenient to navigate through the list when you could sort it that way. Now I'm totally lost - I can't find what I was going to watch as some of them had been added so much time before the website changed.

Could you help me to get the way to navigate correctly?

I have discovered a couple of other strange idiosyncrasies that I didn't expect.

1. With the previous version, when I sorted a list by IMDb rating (which I do frequently) they were initially displayed in top-down (best to worst) sequence. Now they are initially displayed in bottom-up (worst to best) sequence, which is useful sometimes but generally not as useful as top-down. Also, the bottom-up sequence is not the exact reverse (as one would expect) of the top-down sequence, because the tie breaker for movies with the same IMDb rating (popularity, I understand) is in the same sequence regardless of which way the rating is sorted (making the list far less useful when sorted in bottom-up sequence because worst to best is not the opposite of best to worst).

To clarify: When the IMDb rating is sorted top-down, movies with the same IMDb rating are sorted from most to least popular (both rating and tie breaker are sorted from best to worst), but when the IMDb rating is sorted bottom-up, movies with the same IMDb rating are still sorted from most to least popular (the rating is sorted from worst to best but the tie breaker is sorted from best to worst). This is what causes the bottom-up sort to not be the exact reverse of the top-down sort.

2. The Genre filters don't work as I expected them to because they are And-ed instead of Or-ed. If I select Thriller, Crime, Mystery, and Film-Noir (because I have a general idea of what I want to watch), instead of displaying movies that specify ANY of those genres, it only displays movies that specify ALL of those genres. (If I am in the mood to watch Sci-Fi / Fantasy, a list of movies that specify either Sci-Fi or Fantasy is generally more useful than a list of only those movies that specify both Sci-Fi and Fantasy.)

I'm confused, how do I switch back to a compact layout? The smallest is currently more than twice as big as it used to be, I must be missing something?

Hi! After the recent change in the data export process, the "Year" (of release) in the exported csv file with my ratings is determined in a different way than what was there before and what is shown on the movies' pages on IMDb - e.g. several movies I watched on festivals in 2023 are shown as released in 2024 in the file (but not on IMDb). Here are a few examples:

Anatomy of a Fall, tt17009710
Blaga's Lessons, tt27996716
Bonnard: Pierre & Marthe, tt23004264
Jeanne du Barry, tt17277414
Poor Things, tt14230458
The Beast, tt14407336
The Taste of Things, tt19760052

For following movie, there is no "Year" in the export, although it is shown as released in 1956 on IMDb: The Kreutzer Sonata, tt0209335.

I hope that this can be fixed, so that the "Year" in the exported file matches again with the official year of release, as stated on IMDb.

Hi,

The new export format of the notes has now apparently been localized to the set language.This leads to the problem that the first release date of a film is no longer displayed, but rather the date of the selected country.All names are missing in the Director column.

In a list's grid view, I see that "watch options" is a button under some titles.  I dislike this button, because I have to click to see a pop-up with its options.  Before the redesign, a list displayed titles with streaming options without requiring me to click (I could click if I wanted to see more than one option).

I've exported my list of movies (~1200 titles) today and noticed that the directors column in the .csv still exists, but is not filled anymore. Is this a bug or is there a setting I can change?

I just discovered another odd problem. If my Description field contains a link and I click on it,

it takes me into edit mode for my Description field briefly before following the link.

This occurs when using either Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge.

Bring back 'Date Created'
Combine 
Created   January 9 2016 : 8 years ago
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https://www.imdb.com/user/ur1000000/lists

Watchlist (TV)
261 titles Public
Modified Jun 04, 2024
Created 8 years ago • Modified 6 days ago
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Wayback Machine
March 1 2023
https://web.archive.org/web/20230301193750/https://www.imdb.com/user/ur1000000/lists

Watchlist (TV)
193 titles | Public
Modified 27 February 2023 | Created 9 January 2016

I like the exporting of the lists that provides the original title and the title in the country of choice.  Would it be possible to change the release date to match the original premiere date since that better coincides with the information that most users would want?  I'd prefer to know when a movie premiered (e.g., at Cannes), than when it was released in my home country.

Hi - noticed that when I export ratings now, the title of the episode is the same as the original title, which should be the name of the show.  It makes it difficult to consolidate all of the ratings for the same show.

Hi, for years I have been using a URL of the following format

https://www.imdb.com/list/lsxxxxxxxxx/export

and command line tools like "curl" or "wget" to automatically export my lists to local csv files. The "xxxxxxxxx" would be the unique list id number found in the URL of each list. It appears that of today this no longer works (it gives a 404 not found error).

I was wondering if this was done on purpose and why would you remove an easy way to export lists, and is there some other URL that I can access that will do the same thing. Currently all I see available is a manual multi-step process using something call "Your exports". I have 6 lists plus watchlist and ratings and this is a really inefficient way to get everything down to my computer.

Please reconsider and add back *some* way to programmatically export lists. I have spent years creating and maintaining some of my lists and ratings and I would like to be able to back them up regularly plus I use the csv data for some of the lists for other things I do on my computer that can't be done on the website.

Regards