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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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758 Points

3 years ago

Nice touch with with the teal color for both sides in "reference view".

I'm still hoping for a "link" on the right side menu panel for a "more like this" category.

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At the very least, there should simply be a publicly-accessible (and publicly-known) JSON digest URL (or better yet, HTML document URL) for every title page and devoted to showing the title's "more like this" information. I've been studying IMDb's AJAX interfaces for years, but I've never uncovered a URL that provides for in the aforementioned way. We lost a valuable resource when the "./recommendations" path for every title page was retired.

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70 Points

3 years ago

Old list format for artists was much better, easier to read, easier to use.  I don't like the new format at all.

Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled Artist list format on desktop app

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780 Points

3 years ago

hi,

i wish to add a new problem on the top banner adv : there is no HTML target on BLANK ! when we click on a banner, we leave IMDB !

every ad banner, specially the big first , should be in _BLANK target mode !

Best regards

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462 Points

3 years ago

You have changed it to accomodate mobile screens. Would you be interested in maintaining an option for the old format. This looks Mickey Mouse. Not enough data visible.

Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled New page format

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@george_silver  Thanks for the feedback.  The new design is responsive to the size of your browser so you should see different layouts depending upon your screensize.  Only the smaller sizes are designed for mobile browsing. Out of curiosity for our design team, what values do you get if you visit http://howbigismybrowser.com/ 

If the display is not responsive to your window size, please see https://help.imdb.com/article/imdb/general-information/why-is-imdb-displaying-differently-on-my-browser/GF2ZAR69V859XLHF 

For a view closer to the previous one, please see https://help.imdb.com/article/imdb/general-information/site-preferences/GDL9NWJRKWRH5L6K (specifically: "Contributors: Show reference view with full cast and crew" at the bottom, but do see the note on this choice). 

Hope this helps. 

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462 Points

I have a problem regarding notifications for this thread. If I want notif of replies to my post I need to receive notifs re every other post in this general thread. Who wants to turn off all notifications for the entire site? I don't see a solution to this.

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780 Points

3 years ago

hi,

there is a duplicate feature page and a adv error .

in the front page of a movie, you can see the gallery of photo .

when you click on "Photos" link, you go to a page which display the same information.

Yes the gallery is in a square, not in a slider conponent, but it is the same information. so what is the meaning of this page ?

As i said in the beginning of my message there is bug on the adv on the text-align: center;">

i click on it and it went to a normal active website, so the problem is there is no visual or error in the frame.

here is the F12 console error :

and here the source code from the FRAME of the ad (only body part tag) :

<body>
    <div id="ad" class="ad js-ad">
        <div id="banner" class="banner js-banner">
            <img id="bg1" src="bg1.jpg" class="bg1 js-bg1">
            <img id="bg_end" src="bg_end.jpg" class="bg_end hidden js-end js-fr_end">

            <img id="fr1_txt1" src="fr1_txt1.png" class="img_full hidden txt js-fr1_txt1 fr1">
            <img id="fr1_txt2" src="fr1_txt2.png" class="img_full hidden txt js-fr1_txt2 fr1">

            <div id="white-layer-bottom" class="white-layer js-white-layer-bottom"></div>
            <div id="white-layer-left" class="white-layer js-white-layer-left"></div>
            <div id="white-layer-right" class="white-layer js-white-layer-right"></div>

            <img id="cta" src="cta.png" class="img_full txt hidden js-cta">

            <img id="logo" src="logo.png" class="img_full js-logo">
            <img id="logo-blue" src="logo_blue.png" class="img_full hidden js-logo-blue">  
        </div>
        <div class="border js-border full"></div>
        <a href="void(window.open(window.clickTag));" id="clickTag" class="clickTag js-clickTag full"></a>
    </div>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        "use strict";
        var $BANNER = ((function() {
            // jQuery Fake
            var $ = function(slt) { return document.querySelector(slt); }
            // HELPERS OBJECT
            var HELPERS = {
                "GSAP": {
                    "STATUS": true,
                    "VERSION": "",
                    "URLS": [
                        'https://s0.2mdn.net/ads/studio/cached_libs/tweenmax_1.19.1_92cf05aba6ca4ea5cbc62b5a7cb924e3_min.js'
                    ]
                },
                "ADS": {
                    "WIDTH": "300",
                    "HEIGHT": "250",
                },
                "SCREEN": {
                    "WIDTH" : window.innerWidth || document.documentElement.clientWidth || document.body.clientWidth || document.body.offsetWidth,
                    "HEIGHT": window.innerHeight || document.documentElement.clientHeight || document.body.clientHeight || document.body.offsetHeight
                },
                "DOMS": {},
                "EVENTS": {
                    "CLICK": (function() {
                            if ('ontouchstart' in document.documentElement === true) return 'touchstart';
                            else return 'click';
                          })(),
                    "MOVE": (function() {
                            if ('ontouchstart' in document.documentElement === true) return 'touchmove';
                            else return 'mousemove';
                          })()
                },
                "STATUS": true
            };
            
            var timers = 0;
            var Tween;
            // Pre-load Libraries
            function startAds() {
                switch(HELPERS.GSAP.STATUS) {
                    case false:
                        loadAssets();
                        break;
                    default:
                        loadScripts(HELPERS.GSAP.URLS, loadAssets);
                        break;
                }
            }
            // Pre-load Assets
            function loadAssets() {
                preloadImages([
                    'bg1.jpg',
                    'bg_end.jpg',
                    'cta.png',
                    'fr1_txt1.png',
                    'fr1_txt2.png',
                    'logo_blue.png',
                    'logo.png'
                ], mainDOM);
            }
            // DOMs
            function mainDOM() {
                HELPERS.GSAP.VERSION = window.TweenMax != undefined ? window.TweenMax.version : '';
                HELPERS.DOMS.Ad = $('.js-ad') != undefined ? $('.js-ad') : '';
                HELPERS.DOMS.Banner = $('.js-banner') != undefined ? $('.js-banner') : '';
                HELPERS.DOMS.ClickTag = $('.js-clickTag') != undefined ? $('.js-clickTag') : '';

                addListeners();
                // Call Show Ads
                showAds(true, mainFunc);
                // Handle Show Ads
                function showAds(e, callback) {
                    // Pre Show Elements
                    var elsObj = [HELPERS.DOMS.Banner]; // Shounldn't empty
                    switch (e) {
                        case false:
                            console.info(e);
                            break;
                        default:
                            showElements(elsObj);
                            break;
                    }

                    if (callback && typeof(callback) === "function") {
                        callback();
                    }

                    function showElements(els) {
                        if(els.length > 0) {
                            for(var i=0; i<els.length; i++) {
                                els[i].style.opacity = 1;
                                els[i].style.display = 'block';
                                els[i].style.visibility = 'visible';
                            }
                        } else {}
                    }
                }
                // Handle Events
                function addListeners(){
                    // Use event HELPERS.EVENTS.CLICK || HELPERS.EVENTS.MOVE
                    if (HELPERS.DOMS.ClickTag.tagName.toLowerCase() != 'a')
                        HELPERS.DOMS.ClickTag.addEventListener(HELPERS.EVENTS.CLICK, clickTagHandle, false);
                }
                // Handler Events
                function clickTagHandle(e) {
                    if (HELPERS.DOMS.ClickTag.tagName.toLowerCase() == 'a') e.preventDefault();
                }
            }
            // To Do Animation
            function mainFunc() {
                switch(HELPERS.GSAP.STATUS) {
                    case false:
                        Tween = {};
                        break;
                    default:

                        Tween = new TimelineMax({
                            onStart: _onStart,
                            onUpdate: _onUpdate,
                            onComplete: _onComplete
                        });

                        Tween.add(TweenMax.to(".js-bg1", 1, { scale: 0.7, x: -160, y: -78, rotationZ: 0.001, force3D: true, ease: Quad.easeInOut }), timers);
                        timers += 1;
                        Tween.add(TweenMax.to([".js-fr1_txt1"], 0.9, { y: 0, autoAlpha: 1, ease: Expo.easeOut, rotation: 0.001, force3D: true }), timers);
                        timers += 0.15;
                        Tween.add(TweenMax.to([".js-fr1_txt2"], 0.9, { y: 0, autoAlpha: 1, ease: Expo.easeOut, rotation: 0.001, force3D: true }), timers);
                        timers += 2;
                        Tween.add(TweenMax.to(".js-fr_end", 0.5, { autoAlpha: 1, ease: Power1.easeOut }), timers);
                        timers += 1;
                        Tween.add(TweenMax.to(".js-fr_end", 2, { x: -78, rotationZ: 0.001, force3D: true, ease: Quad.easeInOut }), timers);
                        timers += 2.5;
                        Tween.add(TweenMax.to(".js-fr_end", 1.5, { scale: 0.84, x: -26, y:-30, rotationZ: 0.001, force3D: true, ease: Quad.easeInOut }), timers);
                        Tween.add(TweenMax.to(".js-white-layer-left", 0.6, { 100%', ease: Power1.easeOut, rotation: 0.001, force3D: true }), timers);
                        timers += 0.6;
                        Tween.add(TweenMax.to(".js-white-layer-bottom", 0.4, { 
                        Tween.add(TweenMax.to(".js-logo", 1, { autoAlpha: 0, ease: Power2.easeOut }), timers);
                        Tween.add(TweenMax.to(".js-logo-blue", 1, { autoAlpha: 1, ease: Power2.easeOut }), timers + 0.2);
                        timers += 0.4;
                        Tween.add(TweenMax.to(".js-white-layer-right", 0.6, { 100%', ease: Power1.easeOut, rotation: 0.001, force3D: true }), timers);
                        timers += 0.6;
                        Tween.add(TweenMax.to(".js-cta", 0.9, { y: 0, autoAlpha: 1, ease: Expo.easeOut, rotation: 0.001, force3D: true }), timers);
                        break;
                }

                // Handle Animation Timeline STEPs
                function _onStart()    {}
                function _onUpdate()   {}
                function _onComplete() {}
            }
            return startAds;
        })());

        window.addEventListener("load", $BANNER);
    </script>
</body>

Best regards

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332 Points

3 years ago

IMDB is my favorite website and app, and I visit it on my computer and phone more than other apps. That said, the recent UX update on the website is the worst. There's so much loading of promos when you get there, it takes way too long to accomplish a search because everything's popping up, loading and/or blocking things. It's too much and a mess.

This design only suits IMDB and is very thoughtless to users so now when I visit the site on my computer it's a frustrating experience instead of a positive one. Would love them to consider downscaling some of the more obnoxious promotional items that appear on the home page per the redesign and make this a good site again.

Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled New website UX not great

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@Marlyd  Thanks for the feedback. If you would prefer a more simple home page, we recommend switching to https://www.imdb.com/search/ instead. 

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332 Points

Thank you for this! Much appreciated.

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@Col_Needham Yes! This is what I've been doing during past few years. Using the "Search" page or any of the title pages I'm on. The "Search" page is just as simple, clean and complex page we can ever get. 😁👌

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1.8K Points

3 years ago

Surely I cannot be the only iPad user to find this redesigned webpage a total disaster?

The information I want is in tiny lettering or almost illegible (ratings, runtime). Long review require me to click on a group of dots at the bottom of the text box, but it is so close to the thumb-up icon that I found I have registered a vote saying the review was helpful even before I have read it.

Today I gave tried to read a long review of Cold War (2018), but physically could not access anything after a certain point. The box would not expand any further. 

If I try to report a review for whatever reason, the box to type in is tiny. If I touch anything but the onscreen keyboard or the text box, I lose anything I have written. I cannot refer back to the review itself because it is greyed out and if I touch it I lose everything.

NOT RELATED TO REDESIGN, BUT ANNOYING ANYWAY

If I suggest edits to the Parents' Guide, I frequently find they are approved, but the original comment is not removed. My suggestion to delete it, with reasons, is simply added to the comment. 

I have read imdb guidelines several times, yet still find suggested edits rejected with a fpsuggestion I read the guidelines I have actually quoted.

if I change something inGoofs, Crazy Credits or Trivia, there is a separate box to give my reasons. That would be helpful for changing the Parents' Guide too. Often people post in the wrong box or post things with no relevance whatsoever. Users can only edit comments, not delete them, and your site does not accept blank text boxes. If a comment such as "The word idiot is used" is posted to Sex and Nudity, we cannot simply delete it. I have sometimes deleted everything but the final full stop, but this makes the images untidy and I prefer to give a reason for moderators to decide if my edit is fair.

For a website that invites users to submit material, IMDb is very poor at doing anything with it.

Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled Webpage redesign

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Several, if not many, operators of smartphones (regardless of brand or model) feel uncomfortable with the redesign.

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122 Points

3 years ago

I've been a user of IMDB for several years, and have in all that time never had any reason to complain. Until now.

Basic site navigation is through links used to give nearly instant results with the old version of the site, even when using a 4Mb/s ADSL line (I do not have access to fibre or other faster connection tech).

Ever since the site was "redesigned" and "improved", it has become slow and sluggish. Almost impossible to use. The only time performance ever improves is when a link is directed to a part of the site that still uses the old IMDB design views.

  1. If I go to The Crown, the page takes in excess of 35 seconds to load.
  2. Scrolling to "Browse Episodes" and then clicking on the link to open the Season dropdown and clicking "4", opens the details for Season 4 loads the pages in 15 seconds.
  3. Further, if I click on the title of an episode, the details page for that episode takes 16 seconds to load....
  4. ....then if I click "Back" on my browser to return to the full episodes list for the season, it loads in 12 seconds (saving only 3 seconds) almost as if it is not using browser caching at all.

To illustrate, here are comparative page load times for "The Crown" on IMDB and TheMovieDB, after clearing the browser cache:

  IMDB The Movie Database
"The Crown" main page 35 Seconds 3 seconds
Season 4 Episodes List 15 seconds 2 seconds
Episode 4.1 Details Page 16 seconds <1 Second (opens in-page)
Browser "Back" to S4 Episodes List 12 Seconds <1 Second

I understand that timings of 35, 15 and 12 seconds may not seem like much at, but time is everything, and when compared to performance timings of other sites, are far too high.

I have found that this lethargic performance of IMDB.COM is repeated across multiple browsers:

  • Chromium Edge 92.0.902.73
  • Google Chrome 92.0.4515.159
  • Firefox 89.0.2

The IMDB App on Android is even slower and has a tendency to crash and bring overall tablet performance to a crawl.

Please investigate and try to fix this issue.

Thanks.

Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled Poor Website Performance

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@Dzomlija  Thanks for the feedback. Please see https://help.imdb.com/article/imdb/general-information/why-is-imdb-displaying-differently-on-my-browser/GF2ZAR69V859XLHF particularly the point on ad blockers and other plugins. Note that poorly configured ad blockers are likely to slow IMDb pages. If after disabling any plug-ins and trying a private / incognito window to access IMDb, you are still experiencing these loading times, please let us know the hardware / operating system you have and in which country you are located.  If disabling plug-ins fixes the problem then please contact the suppliers of whichever plugin impacted the performance. 

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These are the only extensions I have installed in Edge:

These are the extension I have installed in Chrome:

And in Firefox:

My hardware specifications:

Processor AMD A10-7850K Radeon R7, 12 Compute Cores (4C+8G), 3.70 GHz
Installed RAM 24.0 GB (23.0 GB usable)
System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
Graphics 1024MB ATI AMD Radeon R7 Graphics (MSI)

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3 years ago

@Dzomlija  Thanks, and you get similar slow speeds on IMDb with plug-ins disabled across these multiple browsers? In which country are you located and we assume this is all without a VPN? What readings do you get when visiting https://fast.com/  (click the "Show more info" button for the upload speed). 

The times you are quoting are around 10x slower than we would expect (and that we measure globally) so trying to eliminate some location issues here. 

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@Col_Needham 

Here is what I get from Fast.com:

And Speedtest.Net:

I've turned off all extensions:

The results have not improved, other than user error (I'm doing the timings manually with the stopwatch on my phone).

The main IMDB page https://www.imdb.com/ takes between 10-15 seconds on average to load after clearing the cache. 

If it helps:

PING:

TRACERT:

I do have TunnelBear installed, but do not use it for general browsing so it us usually turned off unless I visit sites that are blocked by location:

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@Dzomlija  Thanks, this is useful information which we will pass to the relevant team. 

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@Dzomlija  Thanks again for the details.  The team have looked into this.  The times you are reporting unfortunately place you easily inside the slowest 10% of IMDb customers in South Africa (and likewise neighbouring countries).  Do you have any specialised network hardware which might be impacting performance across browsers?  If you have decent mobile internet performance, how do things look if you use your phone as a WiFi hotspot on the same system? This does appear to be a local networking issue for you and sometimes this can be the result of router capacity issues. 

It would be useful for us to see a copy of the results from a Chrome DevTools Profile on a sample IMDb title page if you are willing to run one?  Please do not post the results here as the report will contain some level of personally identifying information; let us know if you are willing to share the report privately and we will contact you with details on how to supply the results.  If you have not done this before, there are instructions on https://www.debugbear.com/blog/devtools-performance (or search for "Chrome DevTools Profile"). 

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@Col_Needham You seem to have missed the point I made earlier that the lethargic site performance is being experienced ONLY when accessing IMDB.

All other graphically intensive sites, such as The Movie Database, Diablo III Official Game Site or Pixabay (to name a few) perform at near instant speeds compare to IMDB.

I fail to see how my local network hardware and connection speed could be so oddly specific to cause bottlenecks on ONLY your site.

But for the record, my computer is linked directly to the router via a LAN connection. My mobile phone and tablet devices connect via Wi-Fi provided by the same router. I use mobile data only when traveling.

IMDB was excellent before the "updates". Now it isn't.

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It is slow everywhere, I can confirm it is in Mexico and it is the only webpage I visit that takes soooo long to load.

Reference view is the only way out of this mess.

Follow the IMDb Polls in Facebook and Twitter

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@Pencho15 

In Europe (Croatia) also very very slow, but only new IMDb title pages. I usually have no problem with other well known or popular sites.

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Indeed, it is a IMDb problem. Google Speed insights gives the site a 1.8 score in mobile and barely a 5.7 in desktop, and they don't have ad blockers or any other tech that could explain it as it is being said here.

Follow the IMDb Polls in Facebook and Twitter

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But how do YouTube, Vimeo, Wix, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, Reddit and Fandom (in their website forms) fare? They should probably be as slow as IMDb, depending upon which "theory" is most applicable to the mystery at hand. I would be particularly interested in remarks concerning Wix, because it is so far removed from broad compatibility optimization, unlike Squarespace, Wordpress, Blogspot and Tumblr, for examples. I've noticed that Rotten Tomatoes surprisingly tends to perform considerably worse than IMDb in terms of resource consumption. This is a broad topic since there are thousands of popular websites, and none of us intend to write up a performance report on his/her personal top thousand.

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@jeorj_euler

I don't use many of those sites. But I did check the same analysis made on Google tools for you 

Rotten Tomatoes - 3.4 in mobile, 5.6 in desktop.

Twitter - 6.6 in mobile, 8.6 in desktop

YouTube - 2.2 in mobile, 4.4 in desktop

fandom - 2.9 mobile, 7.4 desktop

Wix - 3.0 in mobile, 8.9 in desktop

So, excluding YouTube in desktop, everything is faster than the IMDb, and YouTube is a video webpage, which the IMDb isn't

For reference, all my checks I make here: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/

Follow the IMDb Polls in Facebook and Twitter

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780 Points

@Brandenburg3rdAgain 

do you think there is a people at amazon HQ who said : "make slower all the website where we publish banners so the audience can have more time to watch our adverts" ?

Just a question : does people who complain about the slow problem have the same email from imdb account and from amazon account ? Me, i do. If i change my amazon email, maybe the link between imdb and amazon slow ad will be broken and the site will go back to "quick' mode ?

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780 Points

3 years ago

a couple of days ago, i posted a comment about the problem with lag/block  while the main great banner was loading (we can't scroll down using the wheelmouse or scrollbar until the top banner is totally load)

since a few day, i noticed the problem is degenerated :

now we can scroll down but the content of the page is hidden (overlay) by the banner.

here's a screenshot once i scrolldown as soon i go to the page :

and here's the normal page when i wait (no overlay) :

in the first screenshot, each time i scrolldown, the top banner is overlaying the main area (with poster,counter photo/video and preview)

best regards

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486 Points

3 years ago

There is also a problem on Chrome on the Android tablet. When the page loads it looks fine, but when the ads have been fully loaded the page gets wider and it looks like this:

By the way: Thanks for re-including the localized plot outlines!

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118 Points

3 years ago

I will also go on the record as saying that I HATE the app for android as well.  I cannot stand it.  I will use the mozilla firefox, desktop version.  Give us a classic version please!

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394 Points

3 years ago

Your new website design is very slow. For a title webpage to fully load it takes nearly 20-30 seconds, while on tmdb, metacritic it is 2-3 seconds.

There are a lot of reports of slowliness that are ignored.

Can you quote me and  confirm you receive this message?

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60 Points

3 years ago

I realize this is a months-old post, but I, too, am surprised at the new lack of usability of the site.  I look at IMDB daily.  Every single day.  The information that I generally look for has been moved or removed from the site.  The information that remains is unorganized, and unintuitive.  If there were any decent competitor I would completely stop using IMDB, as I suspect many others have done.  

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194 Points

3 years ago

IMDB has become the slowest page ever.
So is IMDB going to fix it or will they continue to ignore the complaints?

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122 Points

@BeHappyBeVegan No prizes for guessing which way they are leaning. 🤔

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I've noticed that pages began loading slightly faster after I adjusted my "ad" filtering policy to be less inclusive, to the point that DOM elements and connection types that wouldn't even ordinarily be though of as "spam" are now blocked. I do find this to be odd. Unfortunately, the process of doing this doesn't necessarily come easily. I had to use the developer tools in my browser to monitor the many network connections that are made every time a new pages is loaded to find out which ones were slowing things down due to some kind of mysterious uneven latency problem.