IMDb Redesigns Name Full Credits

@Robb356​ I will hope along with you that it's just a bug...

@mark12345​ Please see above; the view has been moved to a more visible spot on the main name page in response to customer feedback.

The text-only list of credits consisted of the discipline headings (listed once) with the titles and  episodes shown under each discipline - visible, in words - on one side of the page. Your eyes followed along with the scrolling down. It was fast and easy.

The new "design" requires a lot of reading for each credit (a photos, ratings, discipline for each listing plus seeing only the number of episodes instead of the actual episodes (yet another click). I'm finding my eyes are stressing 

At least for me, I find the new design very difficult, very stressful for my eyes. Before, I could research for long periods of time. I can't even finish investigating one person's credits without feeling tension in my eyes.

Continuing my comments: What about giving users the option of choosing between the old and new designs? 

@Col_Needham​ Hi. I keep seeing you saying "please see above" and mentioning a link on the main name page but cannot find anything. Clearly not "more visible"

If you mean "all credits" - that's not the text view - that a load of info that's impossible to copy out (to dump into a spreadsheet). I'm updating someone that has featured in about 1500 TV shows and 100s of radio/podcasts. Analysing that information is not manageable using that new view.

@ChiefTuftyClubMember​  Thanks for describing the use case and the spreadsheet export.   Since this is a different use case for the /name/ page we have split one of your other posts over to a new idea thread at https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/imdbcom/add-a-contributor-text-view-for-name-credits/66a02b1e79828c791e7a0f6e?commentId=66a02cd39ab2194ecb03b89c where customers can comment and vote upon the idea.  

@davy​ Please see above; the view has been moved to a more visible spot on the main name page in response to customer feedback.

@Col_Needham Please expand on your above "Please see above; the view has been moved ..." comment.  I can no longer find anywhere on name pages a link to "text only" pages.  The moving of the "All Credits" outside the pop-up no longer goes to the text page.  Those of us looking for name/title data are likely not to be interested in "Social Media" page designs (although I think the new still for me poorly formatted pages are better than they were for those that want to wade through pictures, videos, ads and other not necessarily relevant junk).  Thanks.

@ddb_mnr​ I cannot find a link anywhere on the Name Pages to the old Full Credits (Text Only) pages either. I find that very frustrating, as the old Full Credits (Text Only) pages were much more user-friendly than the New Name Page. And given how many people use the Full Credits (Text Only) pages (I personally know of no one who uses the New Name Pages), I think it would be foolish for IMDB to do away with them. I am begging IMDB to keep the Full Credits (Text Only) pages. Given a choice between using IMDB's New Name page and using another source for filmographies, I'll simply use another source.

It seems that the way to get text only is the way it was before IMDB started "improving" the site. Click "All topics" and select "All credits". There is the text only information. If you want the format with the pictures, just scroll down on the home page for the individual. 

As long as nothing else changes, I'm fine with this.

@davy​ This is what they are talking about, that old feature is going away, 50% of users no longer have that and soon 100% won't.

@davy​  Nope, the only view is a long form one with images - the text version has gone.

I can access the text only view via all topics - just like it was/is before the "revisions".

@davy​ I think a lot of us have been flipped to the new view. When i use the link for what used to be the text version (saved to my browser) it goes to the completely useless one with images and an overview. VERY hard to use.

@ddb_mnr​ To quickly access all of a person's credits please click the "All credits" link at the top of their filmography as shown in the post at the start this announcement thread. 

If you have a specific use case for seeing everything as text (vs. simply not liking the design) then please provide details of your requirements over on the new Idea thread at https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/imdbcom/add-a-contributor-text-view-for-name-credits/66a02b1e79828c791e7a0f6e 

@alex_hartsell​ Please see above; the view has been moved to a more visible spot on the main name page in response to customer feedback.

@Col_Needham​ Thank you and now I understand now.

What he said.

The view with images in it is unusable for anyone making edits. Look at the "all credits" view on here and tell me how to work with it.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0139743/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1 

@ChiefTuftyClubMember​ Now covered separately at https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/imdbcom/add-a-contributor-text-view-for-name-credits/66a02b1e79828c791e7a0f6e 

Please keep both versions (text only and text with images). It's easier and measureably faster to scroll through text only than wade through text and images, especially if you don't know the name and show. The images are fine if you're casually browsing, but for research it's become a slog.

@Col_Needham​  Not sure what this means but I no longer have the text view...are you going to restore it?? Thx

@ChiefTuftyClubMember​ No, however, we are interested in collecting requirements for another view if there is enough customer support and interest.  Please see https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/imdbcom/add-a-contributor-text-view-for-name-credits/66a02b1e79828c791e7a0f6e 

@davy​ To quickly access all of a person's credits please click the "All credits" link at the top of their filmography as shown in the post at the start this announcement thread. 

If you have a specific use case for seeing everything as text (vs. simply not liking the design) then please provide details of your requirements over on the new Idea thread at https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/imdbcom/add-a-contributor-text-view-for-name-credits/66a02b1e79828c791e7a0f6e 

Will it be available on Safari (desktop) soon?

@patrick_gordon_brown​ To quickly access all of a person's credits please click the "All credits" link at the top of their filmography as shown in the post at the start this announcement thread. 

If you have a specific use case for seeing everything as text (vs. simply not liking the design) then please provide details of your requirements over on the new Idea thread at https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/imdbcom/add-a-contributor-text-view-for-name-credits/66a02b1e79828c791e7a0f6e 

@Atp00​ To quickly access all of a person's credits please click the "All credits" link at the top of their filmography as shown in the post at the start this announcement thread. 

If you have a specific use case for seeing everything as text (vs. simply not liking the design) then please provide details of your requirements over on the new Idea thread at https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/imdbcom/add-a-contributor-text-view-for-name-credits/66a02b1e79828c791e7a0f6e 

@terence_towles_canote​ To quickly access all of a person's credits please click the "All credits" link at the top of their filmography as shown in the post at the start this announcement thread. 

If you have a specific use case for seeing everything as text (vs. simply not liking the design) then please provide details of your requirements over on the new Idea thread at https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/imdbcom/add-a-contributor-text-view-for-name-credits/66a02b1e79828c791e7a0f6e 

@davy​ This is the old view which is still in testing and is only visible to 50% of customers at the moment.  You are in the group for which none of the new changes have been launched.  Depending upon the results of this multi-week test, you will be switched to the view as announced at the top of this announcement along with everyone else or everyone will be switched back to the old view while we address any of the issues with the new test view. 

From your comments earlier in the thread, you appear to have previously been in the test group yet are no longer in it — this can happen if you switch browsers / clear cookies / logout of IMDb.  We recommend holding your comments until one of the outcomes in the previous paragraph. 

BTW “Expand below” in the old view does not expand all credits, which is the problem we are solving via the update in testing.  “Expand below” only expands credits in the (at most) three credit categories which are shown by default.  While you are still in the old view, to emulate the equivalent of “All credits” in the new view, you have to (unintuitively) click the three “X” check-marks in the (up to) three credit categories which are shown by default. Our research on this method mistakenly indicated this was a universally understood UI concept, sorry, and hence the switch under testing now to a more explicit “All credits” link in the new version.  George Clooney is a good test case since he has so many credit categories. 

Hope this helps.