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About the replies,

Click on the last response time, not the author who posted the last response.

Getsatisfaction was acquired by Sprinkler in 2015. Their strategy is to buy a company and then reinvent the wheel by making its developers rewrite the software and integrate it into the Sprinklr platform.

As you can tell, it's sluggish - not scaled as Cloudfront already told me 5 times, the upstream isn't up and an insane amount of time is needed to load the Wysiwyg editor for commenting and of course - to be different - it has the toolbar on the bottom of the editor instead of on top.

To be fair - I don't think IMDb had a choice in this migration, though they could've opted to migrate to a different company.

omg what happened here, and no one warned us

Another feature no one asked for, what about the new genres?

Let's hope they get more hamsters.

Can not EDIT message - even before a LIKE or REPLY ??

Links are not clickable by default ? ?

and I can not make them work now ;-(

after a few replies

Need to be able to EDIT a message anytime!!

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11,860,000 Names

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youssefgalgame-27544

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https://www.imdb.com/user/ur122500242

pqahc

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https://www.imdb.com/user/ur123806242

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Names: 10,378,806

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I am able to edit my message. 
I edited this comment.

OK - found the EDIT button hidden on the 3 DOTS

Thank you !! ;-)

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Hi! bonafide_boss

On a Profile page

https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/users/5f495617c17a0660597f677d

Problem with Reply in grey/gray boxes ? ?

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Just gonna take me a while to learn how this new system works

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@act_1 I am also finding this new community difficult. Maybe I just need to spend more time getting comfortable with it.

Hi! bonafide_boss

https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/people/bonafide_boss

goes to

https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/users/5f495617c17a0660597f677d

Old Profile Page here

https://getsatisfaction.com/people/bonafide_boss

( remove the "/imdb" )

Many Messages  get

404

The page could not be found or you don't have permission to view it.

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I just realized that we can now like your own comments and replies. LOL.

Email template says:

Hi $USER_FIRST_NAME,

for likes.

AI didn't help.

But they did add more hamsters at least.

@bonafideboss

Never quite understood people who do that on any platform. Except maybe Reddit: if you unlike your own comment you end up downvoted for a while and it took me some time to get that. :)  

When you add badges and points, suddenly this adds to virtual currency and self-importance. Entire sites like StackOverflow are built on this (and don't allow self-promotion for that reason).

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049778/reference

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I'm lost, I didn't expect that kind of "maintenance".

And how are points calculated? Anyway, those points are ignoring 6 months of  my contributions (on another account) which is disappointing considering that this system seems to be used in order to implement a certain form of meritocracy

PS: I also noticed that my username changed without any notice.

@act_1 

"Problem with Reply in grey/gray boxes ? ?"

Oh yeah, sorry. Misunderstood your original post.

And yeah, it's gonna be tough for us, especially poll makers to update the old links to new in our pending poll-lists.

They said it was only a "maintenance." They changed the whole damn domain lol.

But I like the new design. Beautiful CSS coding. My only problem is that the posts, comments, and replies are taking too long to show up. It used to be instant in the old site. I hope they fix it.

It says cinephile in the email, but links to nolannotherealone.

Change your name here ? ?

https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/users/5f495618c17a0660597f6b6e/edit

cinephile

Thu Feb 13 2020

https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/people/nolannotherealone

Old Boards here:

https://getsatisfaction.com/people/nolannotherealone

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@vylmen 

Emails show us the first and last names where they display the username on the site.

You'd get the email notification about this reply by my first and last name which is BONAFIDE BOSS but as you can see, it displays my username here.



I wish they used our first and last names everywhere.

I wish they move the Announcement post and Topics' list to the right sidebar just like before.





What do you all think?

I have to say that I'm not thrilled with the new design, although I suppose eventually I could get used to it.

Can't log in with Google anymore. Not that I mind but yeah. Anyway, who asked for this "update" and why weren't we notified?

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Add "All Topics"

https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/categories/imdb/5f4e4e2d5eee3b4123e7bb4f

as Text to Menu top of page

https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/topics/imdbcom/5f4951c662e5fc53cfeb955b

All - Question - Problem - Idea - Praise - Announcements - Article

IMDb Community Forums > Topics

All Topics

https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/topics

Title            -  Description

IMDb.com  - IMDb is the world’s most popular and authoritative source 

Data Issues & Policy Discussions - This category is managed by our IMDb Content team.

IMDbPro.com - IMDbPro.com is IMDb's subscription service for movie industry professionals.

IMDbPro App - Exclusively available for use by IMDbPro members

IMDb TV -   IMDb TV offers a selection of digital movies and TV shows 

I Need To Know - This is the place to post those questions you DON'T know the answers to

IMDb App: Android & Kindle Fire - IMDb's apps for Android and Kindle Fire.

IMDb Mobile Optimized Site - m.imdb.com

IMDb Poll - The IMDb Poll is an ongoing set of polls about movies and television

IMDb Ads - IMDb Ad feedback and reports for ads not load

IMDb App: iPhone & iPad - IMDb Movie App for iPhone, iPad & iPod Touch

Each Topic has their own

All - Question - Problem - Idea - Praise - Announcements - Article

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See  more:

Redesign suggestions

With the redesign of this site, I've noticed a couple of issues which I think should be fixed.

by gromit82

Wed, Sep 2, 2020 

https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/imdbcom/redesign-suggestions/5f4f378072a09d3801368d5b

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@cinephile I remember that a few years ago, Get Satisfaction had "gamification" on its message boards, whereby a person would get points for, among other things, posting messages and responses and receiving "likes" for their messages. Then those points disappeared. Now it looks like they are back, but I can't find anywhere that the point-scoring system is explained. 

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Taylor   Champion now Employee

Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled

 [ What happened to Getsatisfaction - Sep 1 2020 ? ? ]

15 Comments

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10 Followers

1st part of this saved on WayBack Sep 1 -

I edited that a few times since then and there were more replies

http://web.archive.org/web/20200901184839/https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/imdbcom/what-happened-to-getsatisfaction-sep-1-2020/5f4e7e80917fbb0e7b80b9bb

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Not helpful here

You lost 90% of what I had there !!

I did not request this

Just undo it

and now missing replies to these other merged messages

Add Links to these other messages - do not merge

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@ACT_1 

[ What happened to Getsatisfaction - Sep 1 2020 ? ? ]

http://web.archive.org/web/20200901184839/https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/imdbcom/what-happened-to-getsatisfaction-sep-1-2020/5f4e7e80917fbb0e7b80b9bb

Getsatisfaction:

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Aug 28 2020

Community Stats

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89,140 Members

123,634,000 Users

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the IMDb community will be temporarily read only between August 28 - 30.

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Aug 29 2020

Community Stats

77,538 Conversations

89,155 Members

123,673,000 Users

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the IMDb community will be temporarily read only between August 28 - 30.

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Aug 30 2020

Community Stats

77,539 Conversations

89,168 Members

123,724,000 Users

https://www.imdb.com/user/ur123724000

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Aug 31 2020

Community Stats

77,539 Conversations

89,184 Members

123,770,000 Users

https://www.imdb.com/user/ur123770000

Attention: Due to scheduled maintenance,

the IMDb community will be temporarily read only between August 28 - 31. 

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Sep 1 2020

Community Stats

77,540 Conversations

89,193 Members

= = =

Sep 1 2020

IMDb:

13,000,000 Titles

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13000000

11,860,000 Names

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm11860000 

youssefgalgame-27544

IMDb member since August 1 2020

https://www.imdb.com/user/ur122500242

pqahc

IMDb member since September 1 2020

https://www.imdb.com/user/ur123806242

http://www.imdb.com/pressroom/stats

IMDb Statistics

As of June 2020

Total Data Items: 384,871,729

Titles   :    6,534,894

Names  : 10,378,806

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I'm still hoping for the IMDb Community forum to be migrated to IMDb·Com.

You must remember this ...

IMDb Message Boards Announcement:

We have decided to disable IMDb's message boards on February 20, 2017.

Col_Needham, Employee

Fri, Feb 3, 2017

https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/imdb-message-boards

https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/imdbcom/imdb-message-boards/5f4a79a38815453dba84300d

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Internet Archive Wayback Machine

IMDb message boards

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.imdb.com/boards/

February 10, 2017

http://web.archive.org/web/20170210140000/http://www.imdb.com/boards/

February 20, 2017

http://web.archive.org/web/20170220000011/http://www.imdb.com/boards/

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Both suggestions and live polls are affected.

Glad you mentioned it. I only have 1 such link back to GS on a list, and was able to find the thread here on sprinklr. 

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Not a Poll - but had many replies - Active in Aug.

Make sure reviews are reviews again (minimum of 50 words instead of 50 characters)

Marco

https://getsatisfaction.com/people/marco_animhbx3my2qx

https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/people/marco_animhbx3my2qx

https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/users/5f495614c17a0660597f5707

Posted 2 years ago

https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/idea-make-sure-reviews-are-reviews-again-minimum-of-50-words-instead-of-50-characters

Wayback ... July 2020

http://web.archive.org/web/20200709213714/https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/idea-make-sure-reviews-are-reviews-again-minimum-of-50-words-instead-of-50-characters

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Search "50 words instead of 50 characters"

https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/search?q=%2250%20words%20instead%20of%2050%20characters%22

Search Results (106.3K)

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Review Word Limit Needs to be Changed

https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/data-issues-policy-discussions/review-word-limit-needs-to-be-changed/5f4a79d78815453dba8cee8f

s_kennex

https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/users/5f4953d8bd25507b171c2bb3

Thu, Oct 12, 2017

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User Review Word Limit?

https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/data-issues-policy-discussions/user-review-word-limit/5f4a79d28815453dba8c3b68

User Review 1000 word limit is calculated how?... 

I'm at 980 words or so and it still says I'm over.

How are the 1000 words calculated?  I spent a long time on my review.  

mick_424291

https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/users/5f49539549d3ca0d8f21eef1

Sat, Aug 5, 2017

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I really think Marco's idea post did not come over in the conversion. I just scrolled through his Created Posts through Jan 2018, and did not find it.

Wild speculation: the length of the subject might have been a problem?

In case Marco finds this post, I also found the Advanced search feature on sprinklr, but you can only select yourself as an author. However, it's a good way to find Ideas that you've created:

https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/search?authors=bderoes&conversationType=POST&conversationTypes=IDEA&page=1&sortKey=RELEVANCE&sortOrder=DESC

(When I edit the url to replace my user id with Marco's, I get no results from the search. But maybe he can view his own Idea posts that are here.)

Marco's profile

https://getsatisfaction.com/people/marco_animhbx3my2qx

Make sure reviews are reviews again (minimum of 50 words instead of 50 characters) (IMDb)

Marco 

59 replies

Last reply 7 days ago by Vylmen

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So I assume this new sprinklr Metacritics Animated post replaces the first missing GS link in this thread.

Same here. Notification On, but no notes received.

Well, this is fun. 

Michelle posted a question on the closed, merged, original message:

But I cannot reply there. I can only hope she sees the reply here:

Yes, I can confirm that I'm NOT getting emails on Topics I Follow.

I get emails on THREADS that I follow, but NOT on Topics (formerly Categories) like 

IMDb.com

Data Issues and Policy Discussions

I Need to Know

This may be where the vocabulary "Topics" may be crucial.  What does it mean to Follow a Topic (or now a person?) on sprinklr?

I can't find a place where the Topics I follow are summarized, but here is what it shows on the Topic itself:

And here's my email selection:

BTW, when I used the Advanced Search filters, or Create a Post, these are also labeled as Topics, which I thought I saw differently yesterday.

This seems to be fixed now.

There are some threads where I am seeing no replies when I find them in the conversation list, but if I reload the thread in a new window the replies are still there.

https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/imdb-poll/poll-suggestion-emmys-2020-outstanding-main-title-design/5f4a7cb18815453dba0f7a23

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IMDb Community Forums > IMDb > IMDb Poll > Missing discussion threads

Missing discussion threads

https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/imdb-poll/missing-discussion-threads/5f4e9cd46880ca65378fe44c

by Pencho15

Tue, Sep 1, 2020 3:11 PM

Hello.

After the change to the discussion boards and the maintenance, several discussion threads went missing and are no longer accesible, this leads to the lists and polls giving a 404 error when clicking the link.

Some examples:

https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/poll-suggestion-metacritics-top-animated-movies

https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/poll-suggestion-emmys-2020-outstanding-documentary-or-nonfiction-series

https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/afis-top-10-fantasy

https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/poll-suggestion-the-greatest-black-white-films-of-all-time

https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/poll-suggestion-the-ultimate-cinematic-sequence

https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/poll-suggestion-favorite-agents-of-s-h-i-e-l-d-character

https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/poll-suggestion-rvs-in-tv-and-movies

https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/ps-favorite-oscars-deja-vu-best-picture-movie?/

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Further observation:

Posts from members who have been banned or temporarily suspended have disappeared.

These include comments, which makes the flow of conversation on threads look rather bizarre in some cases.

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Ed Jones (XLIX)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8529286/

Filmography

Ed_Jones_XLIX

IMDb member since September 2011

https://www.imdb.com/user/ur28003732/

Ed Jones(XLIX)

Joined August 19, 2018

https://getsatisfaction.com/people/ed_cliffj_jones_d_weaver

https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/people/ed_cliffj_jones_d_weaver

https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/users/5f49556b917fbb5af045d41c

Suspended Privileges: IMDb | 404 The page could not be found 

E. Abby C. Normal J. III 

Ed_Jones_Polls_III

Joined Mon, Dec 10, 2018

https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/users/5f49542c72a09d2019ea9ec6

404 The page could not be found

Edwin Jones III

Joined July 01, 2018

https://getsatisfaction.com/people/edwin_jones_iii

https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/people/edwin_jones_iii

https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/users/5f49542372a09d2019ea72b5

Suspended Privileges: IMDb | 404 The page could not be found 

Had other names and accounts on GS

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Missing threads:

1. Need Preview for [link=] contributions
2. Lists: Customize the export function
3. advanced search: need profession; OR, filmography with more ATS filters 
4. need a copy of what I send to Contact us

ACT_1,

The posts and replies made from the specific banned or suspended accounts have disappeared.

Obviously, the posts made from our active incarnations are still here.

Hi Nygma, act_1, and bderoes

Thank you for flagging these links. I'm having the team investigate the underlying issue for these threads. 

Taylor:

Here's another one that needs to be found:

Implementation of new genres

And an entire thread of such listings:

https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/imdb-poll/missing-discussion-threads/5f4e9cd46880ca65378fe44c?commentId=5f4fe7bcc17a0662853c10ce

Another poll post still missing:

https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/imdb-poll/poll-suggestion-favorite-nolan-caine-movie/5f4a7c648815453dba02f9c1

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https://getsatisfaction.com/people/nolannotherealone

Poll Suggestion: Favorite Nolan / Caine Movie. (IMDb)

cinephile 

15 replies · Last reply 15 days ago by cinephile

https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/poll-suggestion-favorite-nolan-caine-movie

The page could not be found

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cinephile

https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/users/5f495618c17a0660597f6b6e

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Favorite Nolan / Caine Movie.

by thenolanfan 

https://www.imdb.com/user/ur91650024/

created - 9 months ago | updated - 9 months ago | Public

8 titles

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls091638052/

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Internet Archive Wayback Machine

July 9 2020

http://web.archive.org/web/20200709045519/https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/poll-suggestion-favorite-nolan-caine-movie

http://web.archive.org/web/20200709204717/https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/poll-suggestion-favorite-nolan-caine-movie

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Dan Dassow - My Poll Watch

IMDb Polls - Alphabetical by Author

http://mypollwatch.blogspot.com/2014/05/imdb-polls-alphabetical-by-author.html

search for :

thenolanfan - list...

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dan_dassow

Joined Thu, Dec 20, 2012

https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/users/5f495616c17a0660597f5ea5

dan_dassow

IMDb member since January 2000

https://www.imdb.com/user/ur0127678/

Dan Dassow

Joined December 20, 2012

https://getsatisfaction.com/people/dan_dassow

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They are now being listed in order of most recent original posts.

Where are you basing that on? It's by activity for me.

(Joker, Riddler, Two-Face, Penguin, Catwoman, Mr. Freeze, Ivy, Falcone, Ra's, Scarecrow, Moroni, Bane, Talia, Deathstroke, Deadshot, Zsasz, Black Mask, Clayface, Pygmalion & Harley Quinn.)

(What? It asked me for "20 characters") 

Ah. So at the homepage with all topics mixed.

Good catch. Within topics things work as they should.

Nygma, 

The times you boxed are the Last Response times, which I believe is what you said you wanted.

The original posted times are to the left.

No, Nygma's right: 1 <= 13 <= 19 >= 5

Order is based on post times: 22 <= 39 <= 60 <= 60

My apologies for missing the last one.

Boxing only the last 2 times would have sufficed, and been clearer.

Uh-oh. Looks like the Topic page doesn't do it well either:

https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/topics/imdbcom/5f4951c662e5fc53cfeb955b

Rose,

The "Topics" pages are using yet a different default ordering criterion - Popularity - which presumably means page view counts.

On the positive side: we can now edit posts and comments, even after they have been liked or replied to.

Note: Hyperlinks are no longer automatically parsed, you need to use the hyperlink button at the bottom of the text editor to make a link clickable.

More issues identified by @gromit82 on this thread:

https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/imdbcom/redesign-suggestions/5f4f378072a09d3801368d5b

Update: The homepage ordering issue has been resolved: