INTRODUCING: Updated IMDb.com Title page experience

@ERT The best you can do is set-up a free account, and select "References View" in the account settings. I also now use "Contributor Zone" as my homepage, bypassing the visual assault on the main page. You might also look at TMDb as a possible alternative, but it is not a perfect replacement.

@ERT

I can't be the only one who doesn't like this...

You're not alone in not liking the new and so-called "improved" version of the page. Even I, who is kinda used to it, don't like the version at all, even if I try to give it a chance. Nearly all of us in this forum topic have expressed our dislike of the version, much of it due to the following: Pictures being too large and stuff taking too much space, all basic information being scattered around, the Watchlist and Rate button taking too long time to load, and the jarring visuals. Some of the users have been having difficulties because of all those stuff, and some have even been tempted to use other movie sources such as the TMDb.

Instead of the list format that maximized the information on my screen, now I have to scroll incessantly to see the same information, because of all the needless pictures.  

I use the IMDb for rating anything I've watched, writing some Parental Guides whenever I feel for it, contributing by adding some additional information on already existing titles, as well as adding some new titles which I find interesting. But with the new version, I've been tempted to use the scroll bar instead of wasting my energy, time and my mouse wheel just to find the basic information I'm really after, all thanks to the giant pictures many of us IMDb users have been complaining against. Speaking about giant pictures, someone has even mentioned to me about the fact the huge pictures may also have been created for any illiterate people who only want to... simply look at pictures, while many of us here can read even the smallest texts.

The IMDb created the new version in order to make it mobile-friendly, but in reality the new version happened to be not so mobile-friendly according to some users on this forum. And the story didn't get better as the version has been forced upon us desktop users (like me and several others) who didn't ask for anything but a simple, clean and complex page, without all the "fancy" stuff that makes the IMDb look like a teenage entertainment fan-page instead of the informational database the site has been known for in decades since its beginning.

...but I have no idea how to get things back to the way they were.

According to what Col Needman has told us, the IMDb (sadly) doesn't have any intention of giving us the option to go back to the old version, despite many of us having asked for such an option. According to the IMDb, this is because the old version that has been in use for at least 10-11 years, is automatically outdated and worthless. So all of us users are stuck with the new version which the staff call "Huge Improvement", but none of us users asked for. But this forum topic has users who've been telling us how to use the new version without the "fancy" stuff, including selecting "References View" in the account settings to name one example.

@MovieBuff123

Don't forget another backup option: https://www.metacritic.com/tv/killing-eve . Not even close to being as good as the old IMDB but 1000x better than the new one. 

I know... no site has the depth of info that IMDb has, that why it is so disheartening to see it morph into its new form.

@kela1850 

Because IMDb’s new website is filled with Easter Yeggs! you have to find and open.

Bugs Bunny Easter Yeggs! https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039345

Then whats the point of all this?

@tv_6ed65i969yx75 

i'm not agree with you.
the point having an external forum (so no on the IMDB domain) outside imdb, is a main point to protect imdb from bad responsabilities about "hard" words from visitor.
If someone made an threat here on movie or people, i guess imdb would not be responsable but Sprinklr will be.

(maybe i'm wrong), but it was the main reason why imdb forum from movie page had been closed years ago (i lost helf of my heart when this feature was closed, i never find another place to speak about movies, maybe Tweeter..) .
it took too many time to moderate the movie forum , so too many time be responsible.

Wait. IMDb doesn't have the privilege of being protected by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act? Also, IMDb is not bereft of visitor-generated content. Random pseudonymous trolls can still include threatening remarks in their profile descriptions, list descriptions and list item descriptions, while doing whatever manner of tricks to get those pages to show up in search engine results.

@usamike 

See:

ACT_1
Tue May 18 2021
https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/imdbcom/introducing-updated-imdbcom-title-page-experience/60a40631c1307254c6cc1b0d

  
Hotel Transylvania: Transformania (2021)
Releases July 23, 2021
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9848626/

Where is ...
Reference View| Change View  ? ?  (displayed here)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9848626/reference

? ?

How would others find your
https://previous.imdb.com/title/tt999/

@usamike Thanks, yes, this is correct -- the design pattern supports both dark and light themes. We intend to offer an option for customers to choose at a later date once more of the pages are in the new design.

Given the new pages are dark by default and the old ones are only available in a light theme, we are temporarily caught between the two approaches.  This is why the new title pages are more of a mixed dark / light theme than we would prefer.  Again something to revisit when more of the site has been moved to the new platform. 

Hope this helps.  

@Col_Needham 😃

OK...
How many Reports, Documents, Letters, Scripts, Articles, Contracts, Lists, etc
does IMDb print with White Ink on Black Paper ?

This is Easier to read ? ?

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@Col_Needham

thank U for the reply.

i have beginning to use the "no style" on imdb since the dark theme of the new page.

I hope this new option will be available soon to have the light theme/pattern.

I also test different firefox extensions which perform realtime- "code replacer" features (AKA code rewriting); sometimes it runs well on imdb, sometimes it fails. (because of synonymes....)
For whom want to test, just apply a rule to the source code :
replace -dark by -light and play with it ;-)

Of course you need to be web-developer to understand this tips and adjust it!

Best regards

@DogRiver 

Use the Title or Name Number
Your list ??
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls000000000/edit 

Bottom of page
Add a movie or TV show to this list:  [tt9848626]

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Hotel Transylvania: Transformania (2021)
Releases July 23, 2021
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9848626/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9848626/reference

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If you gather a group of Titles or Names in Notepad (?)
You can add them at the same time to your Titles and Names lists 

and change the LIST ORDER by number

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@ACT_1 I know how to add movies on the list page. I use that way as well when starting a list from scratch, but I have a list just for movies I've watched this year. So I'm updating that often and having the ability to add the movie to that list on the specific movie page saves me from having to go to the list every time. When I'm already on the movie page rating it, reading reviews, looking up cast etc. Thank you though for the reply.

In title reference view, you can insert or remove the title to your Watchlist with one click. I'm not sure if it allows you to pick a specific list of yours to which to insert or remove the title, since I've never created an IMDb list myself.

@jeorj_euler Yeah, as far as I can see there's only the option to add/remove to watchlist on title pages in reference view.

@DogRiver 

I have several Lists that I add with Title and Name numbers
but do not have a Watch List

Any Help Here ??
You many know about this already too

https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/imdbcom/adding-a-title-to-a-user-created-list/60da05a58b1b3f7a4bf4e42d?commentId=60db66858ce1226dd430af54

bderoes
While Editing your Watchlist, 
click on the box left of the title(s) you want to move.
Then an option will light up for Move To, 
and when you click that you can select the destination list.

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@jeorj_euler 

Mobile view same as  desktop standard view ? ?
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt9848626/

desktop standard view
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9848626/

reference view.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9848626/reference

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You know it, ACT_1.

@jeorj_euler @ACT_1 Those were the days, my friend. we thought they'd never end....

for my money, the reference view is far superior. Maybe after the dust settles, we can impose on the staff to make some of the categories collapsible on reference view. That should not tax the capabilities of the software too much.....

@jeorj_euler
there 're also another problem : i use mid-resolution and the space is not used, there are a lot of blank-empty space (purple in my example).

the website did not use all the space, so each page is long, long long, and we need to scroll, scroll, scroll,scroll, down,down,down...

in previous version, you can go to movie menu to go to "soundtrack" topic in 1clic. Now, i have to make a more than 8 mouse events to reach the "soundtrack" topic.

@usamike  You do not have to scroll to reach the soundtracks or any of the subpages.  Please see the "All Topics" menu in the upper right of each page, for example from https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9620292/

(red highlighting added)

Hope this helps.

thank U, it solved the problem.

i saw this icon before and i didn't click on it because it meant offer thing elsewhere . Moreover it didn't have any tooltips (neither other clickable item fro mthe new homepage : no tooltips anywhere at all...)

I would suggest to name it : "sub menus" instead of "all topics".

Problem solved.

@adam2eda 

Joined Fri, Jul 16, 2021
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All  English here ? ?

Citizen Kane (1941)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033467/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033467/reference   *
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Your Account Settings
https://www.imdb.com/registration/accountsettings

Content Settings
https://www.imdb.com/preferences/general

Title pages
  Title display country/region:
  [United States]
  Title display language
  [English]

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Contributors
 [x] Show reference view with full cast and crew (advanced view)

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Because it's English movie.

How English is this:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5595160

Those settings doesn't change this. Moreover, I was talking to the russian guy on forum, he said he doesn't see the original titles anymore and sees translated Russian titles as original titles. I couldn't believe it at first, till I connected through the Russia with VPN, and he is right, all English movies are shown as originally Russian.

@adam2eda 

? ?

Redemption Road (2017)
Landgericht (original title)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5595160/reference

The life of a German-Jewish judge family 
is destroyed by the Nazi persecution in the 1930s.
The children are sent to England with a Kindertransport,
he goes into Cuban exile, she remains in war Germany.
In 1947 the broken family reunited.

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Get your glasses, then you'll see that it's not the link I posted nor it's a new design page.

@usamike  Thanks for the details here. We have shared this with the appropriate teams.  A quick related question: in which country are you based?  Our advertising experience varies across the world depending upon various factors. 

Will people please stop using the word experience with everything? Ads are not an "experience" - for you it's making money, for us it's necessary evil.

When I go to the gas station it's not a "gas-filling experience" I'm filling up my tank. Going to Taco Bell might be that kind of experience but not that kind.

It makes sense when you go to a store and t he retailer wants your stay to be enjoyable but in the majority of cases "experience is just a dumb marketing buzz-word. That's just a general world statement though, not just a Col one.

@Col_Needham 
i'm in France but i use a browser configured as English as primary language (needed for work).
i saw on the right panel some of your "partner" who provide the advs : Taboola and eToro are really realy realy some bad ones..

i would suggest to have the amazons or googles ads partnership, they're more accurated with "multi-language/country" visitors  than Taboola & etoro . But i noticed in this section of the webpage, you want to display "story article", not the "product to buy" ads...

Best regards

@cougs

if you own a VOLVOoO car , i guess you would be please at the gas station to have ads about volvooo cars, aren't you ?

it is basicely what i expect from a website. having ads in relation with the webpage first.

In my first example, i speak about the cat advert, i don't have cat. why imdb do not display a bluray device adv instead a food cat ads.... it is the problem (for me).

Huh? I'm just commenting on how everyone in marketing, commercials, management, etc. from most companies all want the buzzword "experience" in everything. From personalized ads to shopping in a store, fantasy baseball web sites, tree-planting, car driving (on a race track it would be an experience, on a trip to the grocery store it's a trip to the grocery store) and everything else in life.

@usamike

under the big ad banner, there is a "sponsored" text link.

i clicked on it (hope to setting the ads...) but nothing on the click !

i check the source code : nothing.

the ads was long to be displayed, so i wanted to know why...

it is funny because the text "sponsored" is displayed a while before the ad itselft !

why user don't have the name/brand/company of the top banner provider ?
on the right side, i can read "Powered by Taboola" so i know the ads provider,  but the top banner remains a mysterious one...
i will check the source code on the outside frame when i will have more time...

What about the "college experience"? Haha.

@usamike The issue with the empty ad placements in some countries (including France, sorry) should be fixed now.  Please can you let us know if not. 

@VoidZero Very true. With the old site, we could immediately see the rating star and the watchlist button coming, but now we have to wait a long time to see them coming, before we can click on any of them. And the staff calls this new version a "huge improvement"? Having to watch the circles endlessly just for the buttons to come is just unbearable. I hope anyone in the staff does something with it, this can't just go on.

Additionally, the star rating button doesn't appear for a while after a new title has been approved after submission, at least with the ones I've submitted myself, so I have to wait for a while before I can rate on that title. Unlike before when I could rate the new title immediately after its approval. Seriously, what's up with that?

but now we have to wait a long time to see them coming, before we can click on any of them.  (...) Having to watch the circles endlessly just for the buttons to come is just unbearable.

i agree. it looks like a major bug in javascript , the one which produce the ads/banners or ajax somewhere. Sorry for the "technical terms".
do you have to wait to scrolldown too (like me) ?
when i'm not log in (so in sign out), it looks quicker.

I will be there is a whole in the js code or a bad loop somewhere depending of js event/handling.. When i will have time, i will track the delay with debugger network/tram analyser (f12 key...) Sorry again for the technical reply...
i will do that only by curiosity, i'm not part of the staff at all.

Maybe the long time waiting, came from a list (with huge items inside). i hope the developer didn't code a thing like "foreach movie in list, check the star by ajax query..." because for a list of 5000 items, the memory/cpu used   will be exponential...

Try with another browser or with a blank cookie (other session/user from your computer)

@usamike 

do you have to wait to scrolldown too (like me) ?

Not always necessary. According to my experience, I don't actually have to wait to scroll down too. If so, it might be due to the Internet connection.

when i'm not log in (so in sign out), it looks quicker.

If I'm not logged in, it appears the buttons I've mentioned come somewhat quicker than when I'm logged in.

By the way, part of staff or not, you did your best to explain as much as you could, so thank you very much.