INTRODUCING: Updated IMDb.com homepage experience

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled The new homepage on iPad 4 with high speed internet.

Is a Black screen. It never loads its content.

What have you done, I'm was spending more than a hour a day on your site. Do you think everyone wants heavie homepages with lots of images and videos?

It's all about information, not the best graphics. It's all about navigation speed, not waiting and lag. It's all about a simple overview, not searching for you entry.

I'm a big fan for 18 years, you've one of the best content sites there is, but please get back to the old home page. I

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled Is there a way to get the old layout for the website? I really don't like the new....

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This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled IMDB's new website is so annoying!!!.

The new format is awful.  I'm using a 15" laptop to view it.  It screams at you!!  and remember the easy to view text, and navigation? It is gone.  Time to change to wikipedia..

Dear IMDb Editors,

During the previous version of the website, I used to visit the page more than 10 times a day and that too mostly because of the writing content and Poll Section at the bottom of the page.

Now all those are gone. I was just wondering what is the percentage drop of your regular website visit from the last two weeks?

Anyway, these days I am using the IMDb Android app because that still shows the writing content and poll section.

Just a request, if you guys really want to keep the current format of the website, please bring back the Poll Section at the bottom of the page at least.

Thank you.

DC

Wow, the new homepage looks like crap on my screen.  I hate it.  IMDB, can you please give users the option of going back to the old settings?  This new format sucks, and I'm going to be visiting your website a lot less until you fix it.

<News> module is missing with an access to 'Top News', 'Movies News', 'TV News', etc.

Well it just got worse. I'm in the UK and choosing Coming Soon from the menu took me to UK release dates, now it's going to US ones.

Aaarrggghhhhh.

I reserve deeper thoughts about the new homepage to myself, but it kinda bothers me that with actors, the search option basically is "Celebs". Now, I have nothing against celebrities, since celebrities can be actors and actors can be celebrities (and many people in IMDb are really neither, since people are people). But the word "actor" feels a bit more professional to me.

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled New page design....anyone else thinking of quitting the site?.

So i am really not loving the new page layout.  Looking up videos and news is particularly painful if its not in the very top 4-5 stories.  I thought the whole point of IMDb is that it is a database of movies and entertainment and the people who work in them, and somewhere you can get updates and news about this stuff.  I mean it's in the title.  This new format feels like its designed for people with the attention span of a goldfish or its just become an online Netflix/Amazon guide.  I used to use IMDb every day but i think i'll stop if its going to stay like this.  

Update: Good News?

Homepage Update — The News Section is Back!

The News section has been added to the new IMDb homepage!

You can find it under "More to explore" as shown in the image below.

First, this is supposed to be the internet MOVIE data page. Yet there is more about TV than movies. Some TV is good, necessary, even, but come on!
Secondly, this change is too major a  shift from what everyone is used to. You might have pulled it off if you had changed a little bit here and a little bit there, over time... but no.

This is bad. Please change it back!!!

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled Old homepage look.

Hi,

is there an option to choose the old familiar IMDB homepage look instead of this terrible, dreadful and annoying new one (believe me, I'm being easy)?

Thanks!

Just speaking as someone listed on the IMDb site in the credits of films and tv shows, the new layout is going to have a negative impact to many of us in finding work.
It's fairly common for many of us to list our IMDb entry in C.V.'s, Resume's, and job application letters.
Now, when potential employers sit down at their desktops and go to look up someone by name, they have to deal with the awful new home page layout, which thanks to it's colour scheme, doesn't even make the search box obvious.
All of the data that used to be present on a 16:9 (Landscape, like Cinemascope, the format ALL film related websites should understand and respect) screen in easy access, is now hidden under layers of garbage aimed at mobile phone users (Y'know, the people who don't know cameras are are meant to be held horizontally, like the layout of human vision,...), rather then respecting those of us who make the products being sold.
Frankly, aiming the worlds premiere reference database at mobile phone users, is nearly as bad as the Academy wanting to award Cinematography and Editing during the Ad-breaks.

IMDb needs to swap the interface back to the correct one, before the users get sick enough to copy the data and present it on an new platform.

I've been a member of IMDb for almost a decade now and have made my fair share of contributions to it. You could say I'm emotionally invested. I don't hate everything about the changes that've been happening over the last couple of years but I disagree with the overall direction. Did the site need a graphical refresh? Probably, I actually prefer the flat design over the old one that looked a little too much 1999. But apart from that, so much usability has been lost in the process. I still bemoan the loss of the forums. Being able to drag & drop titles in your lists. Having a counter of many titles of a particular list you've seen. Text color options. Man you absolutely shafted lists. I also had a library of useful links, how-to's and help articles. Almost none of them work anymore because things have either been deleted or moved somewhere else. Why?