INTRODUCING: Updated IMDb.com homepage experience

The poster section is also missing, a feature I used often and one of the reasons I commented in this thread (well, in the one that they archived rather quickly!). It seems there is no permanent link to view them anywhere on their "improved" homepage. Which stinks on ice, btw. Give me a homepage I can READ, not look at with an exasperated expression!

There was an ability to drag and drop items in lists ... ?!

Sometimes, you can only marvel in disbelief at the stupidity of some web design choices ...

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Hey, Steve: it is obvious you are reading our posts. Why don't you comment on them? Are you being told to ignore our posts when it pertains to our dislike of the homepage?

Fred Adelman & Ed Jones(XLIX),

I feel like you both should know that official representatives speaks for their entity rather than themselves. That and... Reading through all of the posts and comments on GetSatisfaction is hard. That is at least 100 e-mail notifications daily, more than 1000 a month. I know, because I do that and I like it. Having that much in my inbox actually disciplines me to do more in all areas and activities. 

Nikolay: I get at least 100 emails a day thanks to my website and I read them all. I don't consider it hard and I like it, too. I also answer the majority of them and always give each email a personal touch or two. It is rather obvious that Steve is reading this thread on a regular basis and I would actually like to know what his official stance is, whether it be pro or con. Otherwise, I feel like he is purposely ignoring us, waiting for us to just go away. That's just not going to happen!

Fred Adelman, once you get used to that workflow it is, indeed an easy task, especially since you've been doing it from early 2000's, I imagine. 

Reading this particular thread is hard, by the way. So far one of the hardest I've seen in 2 years here, being there pretty much constantly since 2018. It is a combination of emotional impact, sheer quantity and something I can't quite formulate. Perhaps the fact that there is no easy solution that will please everyone. 

I am just glad IMDb is there after 30 years, alive and kicking. Because comickboodb.com just (December 2019) crumbled and it's a hard thing for me, since it was my primary resource for identifying and researching comic books as a collector, researcher, fansite owner. They're planning on re-opening soon-ish, but God knows how many years it would take and whether result will be of any use, or at least of as much use as it was. I'm glad I have mht pages of some of the character appearances lists saved. And that seemed like a really strong and steady website I've never expected to see just vanish one day, even if archive extensively on Wayback Machine. When compared to that, homepage issue just seems so minor in comparison... And yet I read about that daily.

I guess my problem with comprehending the situation fully is that I barely use homepage, to be honest. My bookmarks on IMDb are update history, my own page and addition form for new titles. It's been like that for years. I'll probably won't be able to tell how homeapage looked five years ago, apart from mobile version.  

Nikolay: Unlike you, many of us used the homepage every day to keep up on the latest film news. deaths and the like. When I turned on the computer every day, the first site I would log into was IMDb. But not any more. The homepage has changed so drastically, it has become unreadable. That's our major problem with the new homepage; there is nothing to READ, only video links and other crappy items to VIEW. The difference between reading and viewing is what is wrong with it. This new homepage caters to the ADD Generation, not for people like me who like to read!

Fred Adelman, I am partial about the ADD point. Most people with barely existing attention I've met were much older than you would assume and that has nothing to do with either age group or design sensibilities. In fact, people of ages 30-40 who use social networks routinely are surprisingly less concentrating on the Internet than people my age and younger. At least that's what my empyrical experience says, because prevailing stereotype is that Internet is dominated by young people who would like to read and watch less... Which is not at all what I see when I converse to younger people or watch them interacting with media. 

That said, neither me nor most of my friends are typical for our demographic. Simply put weird people tend to stick together for maximum effectivenes... 

Ed: I'm also what many people consider a "senior citizen" (in my early-'60s) and I am also weird, but I don't have ADHD. I am set in my ways, though, and I don't like change. Well, at least not this much change!

I'm only 30, but I like to read things please.

I agree, Pencho15. I'm 28 and miss reading things on the homepage.

Paok-Kilkis, I thought something very similar about the last design change, which occurred in... I don't know, 2013? I got over it quickly once I actually shifted to that design, because I was using 90's outdated style until it became physically impossible. 

That may not be saying much. I've had Internet-based hobbies taken from me dozens of times over the decades. I've witnessed it happen to countless other people as well. We could look at it another way, though. The concept of "antique" would not exist if no product would ever be discontinued.

Amazon is only burning its half of IMDb

It was really a stab in the back for some of its most faithful and engaged users to throw away the hard work we did for years to give the polls their featured space, and then see it gone without warning in an instant.

Lately when I vote in the new polls some are under the 100 votes. How is something going to work if you hide it where no one can see it? Why would you hurt a section of your page so much?

Warnings are rarely given. For the termination of the message boards software, there was an advance notice of two weeks, maybe more. For the termination of the character biography pages, there was an advance notice of two weeks, maybe more. For just about every other upgrade, downgrade or acrossgrade, the implementation is unveiled as a surprise, or depending upon perspective, an ambush. Certain software changes that have been made within the last since mid-2017 likely would not have had any advance notice at all if I had not publicly inquired about them.

@ Jeorj Euler termination of the message boards ...  termination of the character biography pages
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https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/changes-to-imdb-characters
Updates to Characters
Today we are modifying the display of Characters across IMDb.
Nic Bachhuber, Employee
Posted Nov 14 2017
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https://help.imdb.com/article/imdb/general-information/boards-closure-faq/G5HU888HZYE8LF79#
Boards Closure FAQ
IMDb.com's message board system closed on February 20th, 2017.
 
https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/imdb-message-boards
IMDb message boards
IMDb.com's message boards will close on February 20th, 2017.
Col Needham, Official Rep
Posted Feb 3 2017

http://web.archive.org/web/20170219202927/http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000001/thread/265872671
I Need To Know : Boards Closure FAQ
by Col Needham
Wed Feb 8 2017 
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If you're talking about this page
https://www.imdb.com/showtimes/
I'm still seeing the familiar format, but I understand that the Homepage revision rolled out regionally. Care to share a screenshot?

I would be very unhappy if the only way to view a title page were the m.imdb.com version. When on a mobile device, I suffer through zooming and sliding around the Full Site version in my browser rather than using the mobile version or the app; I dislike the dominance of thumbnails and lack of information that much. (Then again, I don't like the Reference view either.)

It reverted back to the old way. But I'm sure it will eventually go to the redesign again soon. The homepage initially went back to the old version after first rolling out the redesign and then went permanently back to the redesign a week later.