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Wednesday, March 12th, 2025 11:20 PM

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Make the "Photos" link on name/title pages open the gallery view by default

When you click on the "Photos" topic in any movie, it will open the first picture of the photo gallery, which is NOT what's indicated by the topic's title: Photo(s).  This is an annoying bug, and I guess some users won't even know there is a gallery because the icon that reveals the gallery is small and placed in a marginal space on the right top corner, which you have to click every time. It is a one click process that takes an unnecessary extra step every time. Kindly fix it.

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14 days ago

Thanks for the feedback. This is not a bug. If you wish to go directly to the photo gallery view, please use the "Photos" link in the "All topics" menu in the upper right hand corner of the title page (or you can use the method you are already using, of course).

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Thanks Col. I am clicking the "Photos" word in the film's page, you find it after scrolling a little bit down. But it still takes me to a specific photo, not the gallery.

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argman, I have raised this before and it was already confirmed that it was intentional.

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Ok, can I ask why it was intentional? What's the point of clicking "Photos" only to be taken to a singular "photo" instead of what you actually clicked? If I wanted a specific photo, wouldn't I just click on it? I am asking genuinely. 

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I don't know; they said it tested better.

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Weird, I am not sure how a user testing would turn this way. Maybe it wasn't conducted correctly, coz no way anyone in life would choose randomness over intention.

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Our standard testing involves randomly dividing IMDb’s hundreds of millions of customers into two equal groups at random. One group always sees the existing page / behaviour and the other group always sees the new version / behaviour. This experiment runs for between 1 and 4 weeks. We measure a large set of customer metrics and we track the differences across the two groups via robust statistical analysis. At the end of the experiment period, if the new version performs better then we launch it. If the old version performs better then we keep that. The destination of the link here was tested using the above methodology and directing to a single photo outperformed linking to the gallery. If you want to still want to go directly to the gallery, you can get there from the “Photos” link in the “All topics” menu in the upper right of the title page. You can learn more about this at https://medium.com/fact-of-the-day-1/experimentation-at-amazon-51b35490d805 — it is standard Amazon procedure. You can also Google “Amazon weblab” Hope this helps.