IMDb Title Subpage Redesign: FAQ & TV Episodes

Hi @cinemacriterion​ -

A few months ago we redesigned episode pages on the iOS app, however, we do not have any upcoming plans to redesign the iOS app.

Hi @Peter_pbn​ -

Thanks for reporting this display issue, I filed a ticket (#P95379892) for the team to take a look.

Hi @Peter_pbn  -

I'm circling back to confirm that both the plot and rating display issues have now been fixed.  Thanks again for reporting!

I swear they don't even care about the user's opinions. No one likes this and I bet money they don't care and just expect everyone to deal with it. We need to have a choice of UIs, not have them forced on us

Most of the other subpages have already been changed. There is no option to keep the old design of the subpages.

But there has been no announcement about any change to the reference view of main title pages.

I've only seen it on the tv season pages, and it was normal up until yesterday/today, still had the old layout on everything without a problem

That's interesting. 

There are announcements about these changes from the last six months:

https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/search?q=subpage%20redesign

@Peter_pbn​ By the looks of the link you gave it sounds like they are going to force this change on us, really not happy about this. Thank you for the info though. They really need to stop "fixing" things that aren't broken. Classic view is perfect to me.. and now I can't even see the rest of the episodes in the season I am trying to watch with this forced changed. It's only showing 18 episodes in season 3 when yesterday it was displaying all of them (22).

Ugh

@FoxBlack​ 

Other sites like Wikipedia also say 18 episodes for season 3, and so did IMDb in the past. Perhaps you are confusing it with season 2.

I have the episodes of 19 -22, I also see the S3 E19 on dailymotion, IMDB was showing 22 episodes in the season up until this layout change. Maybe the change was a coincidence and someone re-wrote it to match wiki's? Either way, hating this layout change regardless of what happened, and this seems like an attempt to weed out classic mode in the long run altogether. One staff member basically denied it's existence the other day despite me using it right now. Not a good sign for the future..

@FoxBlack​ 

I doubt this has anything to do with the layout change.

Dailymotion has an episode labeled S03E19 Hearts and Minds. That episode is listed as episode 4.3 at IMDb.

This version from a few years ago lists 18 episodes in season 3, just like now.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190529063547/https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0112111/episodes/?season=3

So does the current Google cache, which is a week old.

Some apparent examples of this:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044298/episodes/?year=2022

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10468790/episodes/?year=2022

Hi @valkyrslayer​ & @Peter_pbn -

Thanks for reporting and providing some examples.  I was able to replicate the issue and filed a ticket (#P95604149) for our tech team to investigate further.

Any progress on this? Its been almost a month and the problem still persists.

I stopped contributing data at the end of last year due to the changes made to the layout. I found a lot of the data I was contributing was hidden in drop down menus on actor pages. Seemed pointless to contribute data that most users would never find.

So I stopped... cold turkey.

You might as well just rate it would you remember it being. It will help you far more than it will screw things up for others. Having my rating helps me remember if something was worth recommending etc. 

Given all the "?ref=" and "&ref=" that appear in the query string portion of IMDb URLs, you would be hard pressed to reliably keep track of things in the browsing history anyway. Meanwhile, nobody seems to even know what purpose this useless "ref" parameter serves.

@jeorj_euler​ 😀

ACT_1
Thursday, October 12th, 2023
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Fran, Employee
Sat Oct 14 202
Hello ACT_1,
We are inquiring with the appropriate team 
and we will circle back once we have that information.
Thanks for the patience.

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Yes, I'm following your thread about that, as you probably know,, ACT_1.

@jeorj_euler​ 😀

Maybe get a reply from Fran, Employee Monday ??

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@FoxBlack​ I've only ever rated titles, never individual episodes. 

I still rate titles genuinely. Episodes I now rate a 2 if I've watched it. Perhaps a "watched it" tag could be introduced.

@EvanD71​ 😀

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EvanD71
IMDb member since September 2000
https://www.imdb.com/user/ur0853775/

https://www.imdb.com/user/ur0853775/ratings

8,469 titles

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@ACT_1​ Not sure what your reply is meant to convey.

But then I find most of your replies difficult to understand.

@sss_sss_6922125​ And now the ratings and votes disappeared. What a disappointment!

@sss_sss_6922125​ No need to worry -- this was always a temporary experiment which was shown to only a subset of customers.  The team will now analyse the usage between the group who saw the new layout vs. the group who did not.  If the page with the votes is deemed a success, then it will return for all customers as a permanent change (we also need to fix a few bugs before it can return). 

@Col_Needham​ This is a very handy feature. Since I started using it through the google chrome add-on, it has become a must for me. But after the changes on the site at the beginning of this year, the add-on began to work very poorly, and the developer does not want to finish it. I will be very happy when you implement the function in the site. And when it will be available on award pages and in search results. If it causes problems, it may be worth making it enabled / disabled through the user settings.

@sss_sss_6922125  As you may have noticed, the ratings are now back on the /name/ pages following (a) successful test results (b) fixing the bugs which were detected during the testing.  If you cannot see them just yet, they will be launching to all customers soon. 

@Col_Needham​ That is some really great news, thank you!

@Col_Needham​ it appeared a few days ago, maybe a week ago, it's just wonderful, great thanks. As I wrote earlier, it would be nice if the ratings were also displayed on the awards page and the quick search results page.

I can't remember if that problem didn't always exit.

@pascal_baspeyras​ Thanks for the problem report.  The pages are currently only being shown to a subset of customers in order to catch problems like this which may have been missed in the testing. 

@pascal_baspeyras Thanks again for the feedback. All of the above issues have now been fixed. 

Thank you very much for your great work!