INTRODUCING: Updated IMDb.com Title page experience

The best reply I've read. The best description of the new interface.

@dikembe1990  Thanks for the feedback, however, there are no plans to change this at the present time.   The rounded numbers are easier to read and are more accessible, also as you note, the precise numbers (and much more) are on the ratings subpage. 

@vendaa Thanks for the feedback.  We have been translating titles for 11 years.  The previous translation logic was complicated and full of bugs so it has been simplified.  It is possible you were accidentally subjected to one of the previous bugs and therefore did not see translated titles.  

You can override the translations to always display original titles or you can choose a country/language pair from your site preferences page at https://www.imdb.com/preferences/general 

More information is available at https://help.imdb.com/article/imdb/general-information/site-preferences/GDL9NWJRKWRH5L6K  specifically:

As part of the "Title display country" preference - our registered also users have the option to choose 'Original' title display. The Original title in the Country of Origin - which prior to the previous changes was the default on www.imdb.com.

where the "previous changes" referenced there were the 2010 updates. 

Hope this helps. 

You have to upgrade you operating system? Are you certain about that?

I'm rather sure. And pretty sure that any smart solution won't help for longer than few months. Young and joyful website develepers will quickly find a way to make me use my 34'' monitor (bought because of poor eyesight)  as if it was mobile phone with size of postage stamp. And to give me same amount of content on both screens.

Or maybe soon we all will need a joystick or magic gloves to grab some information from the web.

btw. I'm just checking TMDB site. It uses the same annoying manner but at least works fine on my browser. Magic ?

@purimein It is your browser update. Any browser has a 50/50 chance of seeing the old vs. new design while the launch is on-going, soon enough it will be 0/100 for old vs. new. 

Argh.

This is the *worst* news of today.

@cougs No design is set in stone.  We almost never run the same version of the site software on two consecutive days -- there's almost always some part of the software which is being adjusted. We run a steady stream of experiments, many of which become permanent and there are bug fixes, both small and large deploying regularly.  However, the overall pattern of this design is set for now as you can see across multiple pages which are using the pattern and running the new technology: home, watch, videos, photos, and now titles. 

Note I am referring to the software and layout here -- the content changes by the minute with nearly one million updates per week. 

Hope this helps. 

The redesigns of those other page models are not as bothersome, though. On the other hand, I never thought very approvingly about how the "Edit tags" button and the "Report" button where changed into icons. I suppose, I should be happy that IMDb image slide pages load no slower than before.

Workaround: Edit the Check-in list, and add your comment there.

I know that's not nearly as convenient as the prior functionality.

I have a folder of "IMDb edit URLs" on my bookmarks bar so I can do that with any of my lists.

An IMDb employee would need to answer whether the direct-comment functionality is returning.

Related post:

https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/imdbcom/lists-checkins-popup-comments-box/5f4a79e68815453dba8f050e

@bderoes Thanks for the workaround -- you beat us to the reply there. It also very easy to add notes post-check-in to your check-in list via the IMDb iOS app. 

@alpanesen You can still check-in from the title page by adding the title to your Check-ins list, but we no longer support adding a note at the time of check-in, sorry.

@bderoes thanks for the help!

@Col_Needham thanks for the answer. but maybe you should consider supporting it again :) since it was a very helpful tool.

I agree! It's now the same lame loading page in the browser like in the (android) app! Can you do something about it, @Col_Needham ? Maybe a version with less pictures/videos loading for the m.imdb.com subdomain?

Well, there is an "add to watchlist" button in Title Reference View, and it appears with plus sign emblem just to the right of where the movie's main poster appears and to the left of where the work's title and work's calendar release year appear.

I deleted my previous reply to jeorj_euler as I had forgotten to swap back to the simple Title Reference view. He is correct about the "add to watchlist".

What I am looking for is the way to add "To Movies I've Seen"

Nor is there a link to Amazon or Hulu or Youtube.

thx

Link to Amazon? That's not a feature of Title Reference View. I do, however, personally run a monkey script that fetches and displays the Watch Options information on all the the pages that display the Quick Links sidebar, meaning that I will get to see it in the title image gallery, title trivia section, the title FAQ section, the title parents guide, etc. I've tried suggesting that this be made the experience for all visitors to IMDb, but Col Needham claims that implementing it would violate some kind of "deal" he made with folks who had always preferred Title Combined View, as it was. I've noticed that he makes a lot of statements that would benefit from further clarification.

You could switch to Title Reference View for the time being, but you might find yourself bombarded with the transcription of the entirety of a movie's end credits sequence, which might be unfortunate for you.

I've now spent a few days with the new site. Still don't like it. Maybe it needs even more improving. Nothing flashes at the moment. Have you considered using many more fonts, and maybe every letter in some of the words could be a different colour? Hey, maybe even all at the same time?

More seriously, it seems from this thread that very few people have a good word for the new look. I don't really expect anyone to do anything much about it (and heaven forbid that this new release is just rolled back for desktop users) because despite what they might say, global companies don't usually give a ***p about what the punters think. I would ask though, that when in a couple of years the guys from marketing or whoever try to justify their existence by having another redesign to give the site a "fresh new look" or whatever that you try not to ***k it up even more.