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INTRODUCING: Updated IMDb.com homepage experience



The new homepage is designed to help IMDb customers find what to watch right now, tonight, or this weekend — and where to find the best movies and TV shows for them, whether in theaters, on TV, or across a variety of streaming services (including IMDb TV, Prime Video, HBO, Starz, Showtime, Acorn TV, and PBS). Customers will benefit from a new recommendation engine that leverages implicit and explicit behavior to offer relevant and timely suggestions.

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6 years ago

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled Where are you going with IMDB?.

IMDB.com used to be the second most useful site after Wikipedia. The new design is so repulsing that it takes away the pleasure of visiting the site again.

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Aris_Athanas

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6 years ago

I thought it was a joke. I thought it was something like April Fools' Day. But for some reason they are serious about this. They are planning to keep this. 

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Aris_Athanas

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Aris_Athanas

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Spending time in  IMDb is my hobby and now you are doing everything you can to take my hobby away from me.

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MykolaYeriomin

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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 I got over it quickly once I actually shifted to that design, because I was using 90's outdated style until it became physically impossible. 

6 years ago

jeorj_euler

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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.

— Jeorj Euler, an IMDb regular registrant

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Aris_Athanas

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bderoes

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6 years ago

Strange that the homepage has a different (and less readable) icon than other IMDb pages:

The one on the left is one of my lists; the one on the right is the homepage.
When I click through to something on the homepage, I get the left icon for it.
This is Chrome 80 on Windows 10, with lots of tabs open.

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BonaFideBOSS

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6 years ago



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scott_z_inn6xf3zz0hu1

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Amazon is only burning its half of IMDb

6 years ago

Aris_Athanas

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6 years ago

The least you can do is take the Home Page Poll out of the Editors Picks. No one sees the polls there, it gather very few votes. In the old Home Page a poll use to gather 10.000 votes in 5-6 days. Now in 5-6 days it gathers 1.000 votes. That's awful for us, the pollmakers. The poll in the Home Page needs to have a place for it's own. Now it's hiding in Editors Picks and no one sees it. BRING BACK THE POLL SECTION AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE.

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jeorj_euler

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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, an IMDb regular registrant

6 years ago

ACT_1

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@ 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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scott_z_inn6xf3zz0hu1

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6 years ago

Oh, good... They updated the Tickets & Showtimes page to this new, ugly redesign, which means that they will in fact be updating every page of IMDb to this terrible format... Just a matter of time before I stop using IMDb altogether.

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bderoes

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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.)

6 years ago

scott_z_inn6xf3zz0hu1

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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.

6 years ago

Aris_Athanas

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angelo_pilla

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6 years ago

I've just took a look at the new homepage after some weeks and it is even worse. The more they add the more it gets uglier and horrible.

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Pencho15

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6 years ago


I came again to check if this continues, and sadly it does. One month withput visiting the homepage and bouncing rapidly the few times I forget how ugly and useless it is before I access the site through other pages.

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Aris_Athanas

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goddangwatir

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So do I !

6 years ago

jeff_schindler_3igzmhg4r31zl

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6 years ago

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled Please, give us the old home page back!.

IM*Db*, with emphasis on the 'Db', as in database, as in information.  So, please tell me which of these 2 home pages screams information:





The new home page is the antithesis of everything IMDB has become known for.  I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that your visits per day has gone way done since the change - I know I avoid it like the plague.  Can you at least give us previously loyal visitors the *option* of the old home page?!? That can't be too much to ask!!

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carlosswiener

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6 years ago

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled Go back to the old Layout, please! This sucks bigtime!.

Please Please Please go back to the old layout. The new one doesn't make sense and is by far the most anoying ever! Movieposters extremly zoomed out... why? No more news in the beginning and only the favority stuff nobody wants to see...


We need the old layout back!

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pouya_neev

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6 years ago

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled Problems to browse on new IMDB.

It is really bad that we can't find anything on your website anymore. For whom do you make those editor's list and IMDB picks for? 
Why not just provide a link to them from menu like before?

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