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INTRODUCING: Updated IMDb.com Title page experience

INTRODUCING: Updated IMDb.com Title page experience

We are excited to announce the launch of IMDb’s newly refreshed movie and TV show pages! The renewed page is meant to make your IMDb experience easy and enjoyable, and its design represents the diverse interests of global entertainment fans. The refresh reflects IMDb customer feedback and research designed to enhance entertainment content discovery and navigation.

Please note, we are gradually launching the new design to a selection of IMDb customers. If you do not yet see the design, we expect to make it broadly available in the weeks ahead. Thank you for using IMDb!

For more information, check out this Help article.

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5 years ago

I don't like the new version of IMDb. I have to scroll through way bottom to find the running time of a series which previously I could see just at the beginning of the page. 

Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled The new IMDb

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@aeon_rio  Thanks for the feedback. Please can you provide an example of the running times issue and we will take a look.  There is a bug with episode running times which are currently investigating (please see https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/imdbcom/introducing-updated-imdbcom-title-page-experience/60a40631c1307254c6cc1b0d?commentId=60da03ef1afd8f2bd42cb20d) but series pages should be okay. 

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@Col_Needham 

See the runtime besides the year and rating? Yeah, for a TV series, it is not there in the new version.
It used to be there. So now I have to scroll all the way down, passing the Episodes, Videos, Photos, Top Cast, More like this, storyline, Did you know, User Review, FAQ, Details and aaaah... there it is
In the Technical Specs, the runtime is 57 minutes.
What I could find just at the top of the page before is now at the bottom of the page. And now I have to go all the way down to look for it. It is very very annoying and inconvenient. 

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@aeon_rio  Thanks for the example. This is a bug, sorry, and the team are taking a look. 

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@aeon_rio  Thanks again for the problem report.  This has now been fixed and episode running times are back in the top section.  For example: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/ 

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@forthehorde Thanks, good catch and not intentional.  We will re-open the bug report. 

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@forthehorde  Thanks again for the problem report, the mini-series issue has also now been resolved. 

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60 Points

5 years ago

Please. Don't.
It looks like having a mobile page on the desktop. I literally thought it was a browser error and was looking where to switch to desktop mode. This is impossible to use, can't find information, can't see an overview of the page.
We need to scroll through like 2 pages of photos and cast photos to find the summary of the movie. Everything is so far apart, it makes the experience completely broken.

I've been using the internet since the early phone modem days, and this is hands down the worst website change I've ever seen. Trust your audience, just don't do it.

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120 Points

5 years ago

I HATE THE NEW ONE, EVERYTHING IS SO BIG, HOW DO I GET THE OLD ONE BACK?

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100 Points

5 years ago

I'm not liking the new version. I liked seeing all characters on one page. Your objective should be to minimize clicks. Who cares about gross large pictures of the main characters taking up half the page and this might be because I do not use my windows in full screen? We use IMDB to see the bios on the minor characters and what else they appear in. When you are not in full screen all we see are the main characters. Maybe I don't Windows correctly. Your page does not resize to the window at least not using chrome.

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88 Points

5 years ago

The new UI is so inconvenient, the information I want is much harder to find.

Please do what Reddit did - they enabled their users to use the old version of the website by visiting old.reddit.com.

Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled Please let us opt out of the redesign

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I second this. I'm so disappointed that the new version we the desktop users didn't ask for, is now forced to us. Information is harder to find (unless we actually learn to use it and get used to it), actor pics is just being too big, etc. Just as many of us already mentioned in the now closed forum about the new design.

Another thing, the duration is now far down instead of being on the top together with release date, original title and more. More scrolling required.

If anybody actually like that design, that's fine, I respect their choices. But whoever made the new version could at least let us actually choose to either use the new or the old version, as we always could until now. I just don't like everything to be so fancy and giant as ever possible, and all we desktop users have asked for is just to have searching for information to be just as plain and easy as possible.

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70 Points

5 years ago

A week or two ago when the new design started showing on my PC I sighed in frustration because it was like every other site redesign - different but no better, and in some ways worse. I figured I would get used to the amount of wasted screen space and the random way items that used to be easy to find were now scattered all over the place. So far, that has not yet happened and I still am having trouble navigating. Why the simple listings for TV series of cast and crew, seasons, and episodes now require so much more space, and why a link to user reviews requires hunting down,  remains baffling. Plus, the "Help" article referenced above is about as unhelpful as one could make it, barely giving any information on the changes at all. It is more like a press release.

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94 Points

5 years ago

Original format was fine, why change? The pictures are now too big, used to be able to see more.

White text on black background not as easy to read.

Please make an option to revert to the previous design.

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70 Points

5 years ago

please give us autistic people the old layout bank thanks.

leaving aside the new one is awful on every single level, "fractally awful" if you will, as an autistic person i loathe unnecessary changes to websites...  when you add in an objectively terrible new layout and much slower loading and scrolling, with a ton of immage leap, image crossing, image blurring and text missing/not loading properly and i think even neurotypical people will prefer the old one.

seriously.

the old one back now thanks.

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144 Points

5 years ago

I really don't like this new update with every section on the page getting bigger and a page overall getting much longer, please make it an option to go back to the previous design

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76 Points

5 years ago

I'm going to focus on the issues with the redesign since I know its not going to be changing back to what we had. There are some usability issues that I'm experiencing. Mainly with load times and overall slowness of the redesign. 

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I get a ton of those "loading spinning wheels" on any new page. for adding to watchlist, ratings, and some other functions. Its incredibly slow. Is this something that will get fixed in time? 

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@VoidZero

load times and overall slowness of the redesign 

I guess I'm not the only one experiencing this.

Bottom line is that they don't care about our complaints and they are not going to do anything about it since we are not their paying customers such as with their IMDB-Pro which appears to be more polished and user friendly than this new UI.

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Thanks for the feedback @VoidZero 

I've passed this information to the team to take a look to see what's going on. 

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@Taylor

Since the new UI was pushed, this overall slowness and load times has been constant.

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@linux_lad 

Same as the home page they changed a year or two ago. I haven’t visited home page a single time since.

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@ACT_1 

Yes, but it was only one page, now there are couple of millions title pages affected. :)

Edit: 7,809,040 titles.

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70 Points

5 years ago

The previous version was much better when viewing on desktop - everything is too big on the new version and takes up a lot of space. It's harder to find what I'm looking for on a page.

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62 Points

5 years ago

Dear IMDb,

Please, bring back the old version of the IMDb pages. I don’t mean to sound rude but I absolutely hate it and, from what I’ve read from other users’ comments, I’m not the only one who thinks so. This new experience I’ve been having hasn’t been easy or enjoyable, despite what you say, so much so that I don’t feel like signing into my account anymore. Whenever you go to click on a film or T.V. series the image takes up far too much space on the screen that it makes more important features, like the episode guide, less convenient to use. I can’t rate a particular episode of a T.V. series like I did before without taking longer to scroll through more pages than necessary as now it only views episodes per season or year, whereas the old version would display all the episodes in fewer pages and without restricting them to their seasons. To quote Bert Lance, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” So, please, listen to the community and change it back. At the very least give IMDb users the option to choose which version they prefer to see whenever they login; it’s the most logical solution.

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60 Points

5 years ago

I don't hate the new design. It looks as if it was made thinking only of mobile users but as someone who mostly checks IMDb on my phone it is acceptable. I do have to say that it is completely ridiculous having to scroll more than halfway through the page and even past the "More like this" before getting to the "Storyline". It comes across as the web designer never having used the site. 3/10

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@Aettos

They already have the mobile version with that awful design (m.imdb.com).

They should not have implemented it on the desktop version as well which would have provided all users with the option of choosing the mobile version or the desktop version with the old design.

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5 years ago

Please change it back

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60 Points

5 years ago

For the love of God, please give a compact version. Always have to cater to mobile users over Desktop. These things aren't mutually exclusive! You can tackle both! All you need to do is allow an option to revert to the old design, or offer customization options. The dislike for the new design is ubiquitous. I'm looking forward to all this criticism falling on deaf ears. Compact, compact, compact.