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IMDb Redesigns Profile Pages

We're excited to unveil our redesigned IMDb Profile pages! Your profile now serves as a comprehensive archive of your activity, including your curated lists, ratings, reviews, and check-ins. With a refreshed interface, you'll have an easier time revisiting your entertainment experiences and personalizing your profile. While web users have always been able to edit their image, bio, and username, we're thrilled to announce that, for the first time ever, our mobile app users can now make these changes directly within the app! This update brings greater flexibility and control to all our users, allowing you to keep your profile current and personalized, whether you're at your desk or on the go. Please Note: To access badges, ratings breakdowns, and polls, you can click the link at the top of your new profile page. For more details about the new Profile pages, please review the "Your Profile" FAQ and Community Guidelines. Our team is constantly working to make our technology faster, more efficient, and more scalable. We hope you'll enjoy these enhancements as we continue our mission to improve your experience. Your feedback is invaluable to us – we encourage you to share your thoughts and questions in this thread. Thank you for being part of the IMDb community and for your continued support in making IMDb the go-to destination for entertainment enthusiasts worldwide. — The IMDb Team

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@Michelle 😁 Your Profile page?? Col Needham 😎 IMDb member since October 1990 Founder and CEO of IMDb. https://www.imdb.com/user/ur1000000/ https://www.imdb.com/user/ur1000000/legacy/ Redesign 193,000,000 Profile pages!! Why?? Previous version "legacy" now for each page How long will you keep these?? https://www.imdb.com/user/ur0000001/ https://www.imdb.com/user/ur193000000/ Add Date joined: Tue Dec 10 2024 Can Not copy UserName now?? Why black background on "Read More"?? You type all your documents on black paper?? Add to Quick Links * Polls created * Contributions history (find 18 Digit Code) * Update history (find 18 Digit Code) You can see Polls created on the Poll Board... Aris_Athanas https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/users/5f495616c17a0660597f6364 AKA Paok-Kilkis https://imdbstats.com/user/ur34779915/ Polls: 1,113 Paok-Kilkis IMDb member since July 2012 https://www.imdb.com/user/ur34779915/ I do not do polls - - - My IMDb Profile Page 🤪 https://www.imdb.com/user/ur0706096/ https://www.imdb.com/user/ur0706096/legacy/ This is new not changed by me î�¦î�¦î�¦î�¦î�¦î�¦î�¦î�¦î�¦î�¦î�¦î�¦î�¦î�¦î�¦î� WayBack ACT_l's Profile Press "See more▼" .

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@Jack, Employee 😁 Your Profile page?? Any comments about my comments here?? Now there are more than 193,376,000 Profile pages!! xfzqkdbq https://www.imdb.com/user/ur193376000/ Date joined: Mon Dec 16 2024 .

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I got the updated profile page today and I can't say I'm very impressed. Not only is everything spaced out very awkwardly with a lot of dead space in between, but I couldn't find the Ratings Analysis feature. This was one of my favourite features and actually one of the main reasons I bother rating movies and series as I like keeping track of my viewing habits by year, genre, etc., so I seriously hope this isn't being removed and that it's only being updated. I switched back to the original setup immediately but that obviously won't be an option forever. Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled Is the Ratings Analysis section of the profile page being removed?

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Glad to hear it. I'm assuming the page won't be as sparse in the future either? I'm guessing the redesign has to do with phone use? In its current, unfinished, form I feel there's far too much negative space.

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will this include top rated genres and years? I would really miss thoose features if they dont come back.

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@Jack​ I don't really use IMDb on my phone. I hope this will eventually come back on the desktop version of the profile as well?

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Today there was a change of choices that left out my reviews or "activity". How can I now see all my reviews, instead of only all my ratings? Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled Where Are My Reviews?

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Thank you. The "more" option works on the profile page,

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I really hope you won't get rid of badges... I really appreciate that feature and it differentiates you from other sites!

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One of my favourite things about the sidebar was seeing how many productions I watched from a specific year, my most watched genres, the ratings I gave to every production from 1 to 10. Removing it will be a dealbreaker to several users, if y'all remove this people will look for another site because having that sidebar was so god damn fun. I'll add an example since I never imagined you'd remove that Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled Are you removing the sidebar with info about the stuff you watched?

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This was my biggest concern too. These stats are one of the main reason why I rate movies/shows on the site. Even though they apparently will put it back, I hope it stays on the sidebar as the current version just looks empty with all that dead space.

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Why? Why are they doing this, the new site, like all the other esthetic updates to imdb is awful and disguisting. The old profile site is simple and effective, why, why do the have to do this? I know that it's soon gonna be switched to the new version permanently, but please, I beg you, keep the legacy site as an option. Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled Imdb profile page redesign

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As much as the new (now old some years) IMDB version is ugly and less user friendly VS the "reference view" for those who don't want to just look at a few large images but want to see data - this profile change is bad. You have just decided to give way less information in the same space making images bigger. Bad job. If I had problems of sight I could just enlarge the details... Since I'm confident you don't care about "serious" users (and probably not even about usage stats: you just stick to these bad decisions unless something disruptive happens) I guess there's no way to have you keep the "old" profile. Still can you at least introduce in the "account settings" - just like for the "reference view" - a new flag that sets the account "legacy" view as default for the users that want that? Ty

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Agreed. There's a few minor good updates, but the profile page looks so empty now. Even though several features will be added back eventually, all the dead space around each "section" looks really ugly on a desktop/laptop.

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I love this new design! But can you also add the “follow” button and user search?

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I agree that this would be a really nice feature, being able to follow friends and keep up with what they are watching and liking. Seeing their watchlist etc. Adding the feature to see "What to watch together" comparing your watchlist with their watchlist would also be splendid.

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The new profiles look pretty good. However I notice that there has been added a bio max length, which is a bit annoying. Also, seems like some yank still works for changing the register date: LINK

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@Nomissimon10​ 😀 ?? ghulin-1 IMDb member since February 1054 IMDb Member 970 years https://www.imdb.com/user/ur21627581/legacy/ chicagofilmrace IMDb member since July 2009 IMDb Member 15 years https://www.imdb.com/user/ur21620000/legacy/ .

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@ACT_1​ ghulin-1 - First IMDb member, beats @Col_Needham by a more than half a millennium

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@Nomissimon10​ 😀 Col Needham 😎 Founder and CEO of IMDb. IMDb member since October 1990 IMDb Member 34 years https://www.imdb.com/user/ur1000000/legacy/ .

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Hi

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Also, it has already been mentioned, but graphs are a really nice way of viewing a profile. So it would be sad if these were removed instead of expanded upon. I have given examples of graphs a few times before, but I will show a few here again:

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Anyone clicking on the 'Feedback: tell us how we are doing link' will NOT go to a page where we can leave 'feedback'. All we do is go to the usual FAQ page. I want to leave feedback, but I can't, because frankly, IMDb don't really want it: asking for feedback is just another PR exercise. Cynical? Not at all: if it were not, why are we merely taken to a page of 'how do to' links. So here is my feedback: in the general 'redesign' useful features and ease of use has, pretty much as usual, gone up the swannee. Once you could click on 'activity', then 'my reviews' if you wanted to see them. Now you can't, and not only that it is not at all obvious HOW you can. Whose bright idea was that? NB Even here you can't actually post a comment unless you choose a 'topic'. Well, none actually covers what I want to say. Why not? Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled Feedback? IMDb don't actually want it . . .

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Today when I logged into my imdb profile I was very disappointed to see that the Ratings Analysis graphs had disappeared. This is one of the features I use most on imdb and the main reason I rate movies. I don't understand why this option has been removed in the new design of the profiles, but I hope they will be implemented again or for me it would no longer make sense to continue voting the movies on your website. I see I'm not the only person missing the graphics. I already saw another of the functions I used the most disappear from the site: accessing the list of all the movies released in a specific year by clicking on the year of any movie of that same year. I still don't understand why that function was changed, since what happens now when you click on the year of a movie doesn't make any sense and it used to be much more useful. I still miss that option.

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Two words: AT LAST! :) Of course I can't wait for the old features, such as the badges, to re-appear, but I highly enjoy the fact that the profile page is now consistent with the rest of the site. Just out of curiosity, is there any chance that in the future we will be able to decide in what order the profile features/sections are displayed? For example, I rarely use ratings, so I could put the Watchlist on top. That's not a must by any means, but could be quite handy in some situations.

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@stormcatcher - Thanks for the feedback! Note that you can access your Watchlist easily by clicking the "Watchlist" link in the "More" menu near the top right of the page. Hope this helps!

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@deelee​ Thanks for your response. I am aware the Watchlist can be accessed from the top bar and I use this option as well. @Jack​ Thank you, too!

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When will the “Recommended for You” section reappear? I find this to be one of the most useful areas of my Profile page (as it is personal to me and not some sort of generalised “what to watch” summary). Please restore this ASAP. Thanks

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@Col_Needham​ Thanks for the response Col. I guess the “+” is to add to my watchlist but I can’t see the “thumbs down” icon to reject a suggestion… where is that?

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@Col_Needham​ ah - thanks. Less easy to find but i’m glad it’s still available!

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@Col_Needham​ Hmm- trying this new “What to Watch” feature today I got this message: “Looking for recommendations? Check out some popular movies and TV shows, then come back to get personalized recommendations.” This is bizarre and unhelpful. Given that I have 1700 ratings and 317 reviews, personalised recommendations for me must be pretty easy for your algorithm…. I don’t want to waste my time looking at “popular” stuff. What is going on here? It was being more sensible a couple of weeks ago.

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This is still broken. Any progress??

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Many thanks Col.

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The new Profile Page is just great, but I am using Bio as a summarize of what I like. I include shortcuts to some lists I created, but also I included some lists in there. For example I included a list named "Most Influential Men", because I wasn't able to make that list due to lack of titles such as Isaac Newton. My Bio is still there, but I can't edit it, since the character limit is lowered to 1K from 15K or 20K. Please I want to include some details to my Bio, increase the limit to 20K at least. The new profile page is really great, except for the character limit, there are no downsides I find compared to the old one. Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled The NEW character limit of Profile Bio is not enough at all.