INTRODUCING: Updated IMDb.com homepage experience

You can't.

Yep, it sure will

IMDb is still the best, though. Right?

Nope! I'll find a better site to do my film research. I already have and it works for me the same way it did with IMDb. It may take more time, but at least it doesn't make me as sad seeing their abominable homepage and giant ads that take up 1/3 of the screen.

Research? No person would ever seriously use only one website for that purpose. For most of the movies that have ever been published, there is no one-stop shop for information about them. The Internet itself/overall may not even suffice as such a shop, as significant amounts of information are offline or stored in privileged-access electronic databases. If IMDb is not the best in regards to the generality of tracking movies, television episodes, commercial advertisements and video games, then it is clearly the most comprehensive. There are quite a number of finer movie databases, but they are far less comprehensive about tracking the totality of moves ever published in the world.

IMDb was basically a one-stop shop for me when it came to researching films, even with the many mistakes I found there and corrected. Are you calling me an idiot for using IMDb for that purpose? Many other users (not customers) used the site for the very same purpose. Are they all idiots? I think not!

I'm not sure that "unserious" translates to "idiotic".

Maybe not to your "intellectual" mind, but to us common folk, it does.

That may be a fair point, as I've never exactly thought of the many times that I watched a movie and proceeded to have a look at the IMDb title page for it as "research". Vudu (right on a set top box or a mobile device) can also be used for that purpose, but to a much lesser extent. I rarely ever used the IMDb homepage for reception of news. That kind of stuff automatically comes to me via email (including IMDb editors' letters), chat, web surfing or word of mouth. To me, the "research" has always been the effort to fill gaps and eliminate inconsistencies in the IMDb data or, for that matter, Wikipedia articles, Fandom articles, GameSpot FAQs and so forth, all these crowd-sourced archives/catalogs. I lean toward assuming that Internet-using "common folk" including teenagers understand this. In secondary school (be it middle, high, junior high or senior high), most students will develop a particular idea about what research constitutes. But of course there is always room for not-so-narrow, not-so-literal uses of a word.

So, in what ways does the near-lack of an IMDb homepage affect anybody's film research or film intel-gathering? Seems like it would impact studies of IMDb culture, if there is such a thing, above all else. All of the information about the movies, television series, video games, music videos, television spots, celebrities, actors, singers, directors, producers, storytellers, musicians, cinematographers, choreographers, grips, boom operators, script supervisors, stunt performers, set designers, prop designers, wardrobe designers, make-up artists, effects technicians, scene editors, studio executives, talent representatives and corporate brands is still intact.

I use to use IMDb to "research" films for my film review website, which I have been running for over 20 years. It has helped me a lot with character names and the actor's and director's other credits. I also used the homepage to read the newest news, whether it be Top news, Movie news, TV news of Celebrity news. I use the word "use" because IMDb changed the site from a reader's site to a viewer's site, making it much more difficult to find the stuff I used every day. I'm an ex-member. I threw away my 25-year-old login and refuse to go on IMDb any more. It's my choice because it is apparent they don't care for readers any more. They care about customers that will buy things. That's my POV and I'm sticking with it. No amount of psycho-babble is going to change my mind.

will be typing in rotten tomatoes into google

Just out of curiosity because I know a lot of people do this and I really don't get it: why don't you directly go to Rotten Tomatoes? It's more work to go there via Google and you already know where you want to go. Why take a detour?

will be typing in rotten tomatoes into google

Just out of curiosity because I know a lot of people do this and I really don't get it: why don't you directly go to Rotten Tomatoes? It's more work to go there via Google and you already know where you want to go. Why take a detour?

That's my POV and I'm sticking with it. No amount of psycho-babble is going to change my mind.

Nobody is saying you have to change your mind. Jeorj simply asked you some questions, nothing more, nothing less. I don't see any need for you to take this this personal.

I personally hate the new homepage and feel IMDb has made itself look ridiculous. A database should focus on data, not on looks. Unfortunately, lots of people (especially younger ones) are more into looking than into reading these days I'm afraid. It's very sad to see that IMDb caters to this, but for me the solution is simple: I don't go to the homepage anymore (I've changed the homepage of my browser from imdb.com to my user profile page on IMDb) and in threads like this, I point out how extremely silly the new IMDb homepage is and will keep on doing so whenever the topic comes up. Apart from that, I still use the information on IMDb because it is still there and it is still as good as it was before this useless change of homepage.

But how long will it be before IMDb changes every page in their database? You don't make a major change to a homepage without eventually redesigning the rest of the site. Believe it or not, I do take it personally. Jeorj Euler's questions are archaic and meant to elicit responses from people who don't understand what he is trying to convey. Fortunately, I do. When someone asks me the difference between "reply" and "response" to make a point, I get angry, because it seems to me that they are picking apart my posts, word-by-word, to try and make that point. I refuse to accept IMDb's homepage and eventual redesign of their site. And I refuse to put up with posters trying to shame me. I hope you understand this. If not, ask Jeorj. He seems to have an answer to everything, correct or not. This is personal because he made it so.

That has already been done, and it invariably will be done again.

But how long will it be before IMDb changes every page in their database?

I sure hope that won't happen. If it does, I'll protest it. And probably start looking elsewhere...

But how long will it be before IMDb changes every page in their database?

I sure hope that won't happen. If it does, I'll protest it. And probably start looking elsewhere...

They do read and they do care, ...

...but not necessarily as much as we would like for them to do these things.

How about zero times? Not one time in any of the three threads (two of them archived very quickly) has anyone from IMDb addressed the problems we are having with the "improved" look of the homepage. And now IMDb is calling us "customers" rather than "users". That tells me all I need to know about their Amazon mentality. They don't care about us. They just want us to buy something. IMDb was never like that before, but now we are hit with giant ads on every page! Is it any wonder why we are angry?

There can be no reasonable expectation of an immediate response, especially when only dozens of non-paying subscribers (out of millions of such) are complaining. Rectification of the perceived problem may take several years.

Really? So all the other times when they immediately helped me with a problem I had was nothing but a fluke? I should have waited years for them to reply to me? Are you serious? WTF?

So to speak.

Reply? Many times there is no reply, but there is almost always eventually a response, whether addressed to a specific question poser or as a blanket statement/manifesto to the Internet world.

Now you are telling me the difference between "reply" and "response"? Please! I graduated a long time ago and even I can realize what you are trying to do here. Stop. Just stop. The only person you are shaming is yourself.

Only to underscore how a response may not manifest on this forum.

And an answer for everything.

So?

See?

If you're looking for news https://theplaylist.net/ is my go to website. Clean, concise and they have a lot of good features. On the database side, https://mubi.com is developing pretty good movie database, although not with the depth of IMDb, but I really like exploring user lists to find films. https://letterboxd.com/ is good for the rating and reviewing side of things. However, as a one-stop shop, IMDb is still the superior site and even with these changes I will keep using.

I'm using www.letterboxd.com and learning to use www.themoviedb.org

I appreciate the recs from you two. I will check these sites out. :) 

Because they can.

It's permanent. Unfortunately. But don't quit fighting to make it better. That's what they want us to do.

So the people who actually use IMDB mean nothing to the administrators? I see a lot of protests in the forum. It's a pity. IMDB is one of the oldest websites, it was on the web already in 1990. Before the new design it was the second best site on the web after Wikipedia. Why is User Experience (UX) less important now? Is it money?

But that is the thing. Which UX? We've already speculated that the new design is to appeal to a majority of the people interfacing with the database. Sadly, the operation comes at the expense of at least somebody's enjoyment or ability to use the site. For whom has this been done? That is the question.

What is the purpose of the moving slider on top of the main page? This slider ruins the UX

Wow, I honestly did not think this could not get worse, but now they put automatic video with sound on the front page.

I'm old school. I use my cell phone to make phone calls. I never use it to surf the Internet. I could, but why ruin my eyes? I use a desktop and this homepage is also ruining my eyes. With its ugliness!