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IMDb Redesigns List-Like Pages
We are excited to announce the launch of IMDb’s redesigned List pages! These pages are meant to make your IMDb experience easier and more enjoyable by providing a modern, clean presentation of information with 3 different viewing types available (detailed, grid, compact) on each List page tailoring to both written and visual preferences. We have also improved mobile navigation making it easier to view IMDb features on the go. These enhancements reflect changes suggested by IMDb customers, as well as our own in-depth research designed to enhance entertainment content, discovery, and navigation. For more information about the redesign you can review our List Page FAQ.
We hope you enjoy these latest improvements, and thank you for continuing to make IMDb the world’s most trusted source for movie, TV, and entertainment content.
— The IMDb Team
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Michelle
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13 days ago
We’re excited to share the most recent improvements to list editing to make managing your lists easier and more efficient. We have reintroduced pagination on the list editing experience, so you can now view up 250 items per page with seamless navigation across pages. You can select all items on a page for quick actions like copying, deleting, or moving items to another list. We are also continuing work on bringing pagination back to the list viewing experience as well.
If you have any questions or feedback, let us know!
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rbwolk1
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114 Points
7 months ago
How do I revert to the previous list style? The new one is cluttered and largely defeats the organizational purposes of my lists.
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Boromir
318 Messages
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4.6K Points
7 months ago
1. When editing, you can't see the full text without clicking on the specific option.
2. You have to expand the description every time you want to write text.
3. The pictures are arranged inconveniently for counting, and they are asymmetrically placed.
It's not user-friendly for poll makers.
WHY?
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dwhite1144
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110 Points
7 months ago
The new design makes IMDB incredibly difficult to use when trying to see where movies are streaming. This is very frustrating when going through my list of movies, I have to click on every single movie. I don't understand taking away such an important feature on the lists.
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List_o_mania
44 Messages
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1K Points
7 months ago
Since we have to deal with the list redesign, it would be helpful if there was a way that we could jump to a certain spot in the list instead of having to keep scrolling through. This is a huge issue with the endless scroll design, and a major disadvantage over page views, where we could just put a page into the URL and begin where we need to begin. I make long lists, and it's frustrating that I have to scroll to the bottom of the page 45 times to get to number 4501 when I used to be able to do this in a matter of seconds.
Adding a feature to let us immediately get to where we want to go would save a lot of hassle on our end, and earn the site back some much-needed goodwill after this largely unpopular update.
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List_o_mania
44 Messages
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1K Points
7 months ago
There has to be a better way to add entries to lists. Why is the bar to add names at the very top when the name is added at the bottom? Do you see how unbelievably inconvenient that is for the user?
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MSebring
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984 Points
7 months ago
I originally found the new format to be a bit less aesthetically pleasing than the previous version, but I'm getting used to it.
I also noticed two cases of lost or degraded functionality but later discovered that one of them (using the find command to go through a list by date or decade) has been replaced by the new filter feature (one thing I really like about the new format).
But there is one case of degraded functionality that bothers me, and it is the same one mentioned by Pencho15 above with regard to large lists. By replacing multiple pages with 100 entries per page with the YouTube playlist style single page that adds entries as you scroll downward, you have inadvertently made it take much longer to scroll to the bottom of a large list. I should mention that if you used the <PREV> and <NEXT> options to scroll through a list with the previous version it still took a long time, but there was an easy trick for getting around that. All you had to do was change the page number in the URL and it would immediately take you to the first, last, or whatever page you wanted to go to. Without that trick, scrolling through a large IMDB list is now as clunky as scrolling through a large YouTube playlist.
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MSebring
70 Messages
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984 Points
7 months ago
I am now seeing the old version of IMDB lists.
Was the new version backed out?
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Navin2000
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1.3K Points
7 months ago
I can not believe that you guys decided to implement the new design, despite everyone telling you it sucks. And then I'm specifically talking about that it's now one huge list, instead of separate pages. I need to ask you guys, what's wrong with you? Wil you guys give an option to only show 100 titles per page?
I will now for sure never take a look at all of the lists that I've created, because it only creates stress. I also can not use my old bookmarks of the lists that I made. This is the dumbest thing I have ever seen, webdesign is getting worse and worse in general, it's an alarming trend.
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MSebring
70 Messages
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984 Points
7 months ago
After using the new IMDB list format for a day I'd like to say that there are two new features I really like:
1. The Filters feature. I was originally going to complain that removing parentheses from the release year made it difficult to find years or decades within a list (I would often do a find on something like (1957 or (195 to skip through a list sorted in IMDB rating sequence) but the Filters feature makes that even easier. I also noticed other filters that I thought could be useful.
2. There are now two ways to move entries to a different position when editing a list: The drag and drop method which works best when moving them short distances, and the line number method which works best when moving them long distances. However, the line number method wasn't immediately obvious so some people might have missed it.
It appears to me though that there are three problems that should be addressed:
(It is my understanding that the problem of the vanishing notes has already been fixed.)
1. The problem of the single page list replacing the multi-page list making it take much longer to scroll through large lists, both when viewing and editing a list. This problem could be resolved by adding a feature that would allow you to skip to a specified line number.
2. The problem of the "select a movie to be added" field being moved to the top of the list while where the new movies are added remains at the bottom of the list. In my opinion, this is the biggest problem because it makes it extremely difficult to add multiple new movies and position them within a large list. For each movie you add, you have to scroll to the top of the list to select the movie and then scroll to the bottom again to position it within the list. To resolve this problem they need to move the "select a movie" field back to the same end of the list where the movies are added.
3. The problem of the streaming services no longer appearing in the list view. This particular problem doesn't affect me so I will allow others to advocate for its resolution.
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Boromir
318 Messages
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4.6K Points
7 months ago
And it's keep going.
I get error massage when I try to go to my lists: Potential Dictators in The Cartoon World & 20th Anniversary: Twelve Monkeys.
What do they both have in common? Both lists have images deleted from IMDb.
So now if I want to seen my lists or re-push it and fixed my polls I can't.
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whyimdbwhy
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60 Points
7 months ago
Can you please put genres back in the list in detailed view? I don't want to have to click (i) every single time just to see which genres it falls into. I want to have a quick idea of what kind of show/movie something is as I'm scrolling through. As I'm not searching for specific genres, the genre filter isn't helpful here.
This is the only major issue I have with the new list redesign.
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alenzizak92
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80 Points
7 months ago
why is there no more column with the directors names when exporting the list?
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Jessica
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194.9K Points
7 months ago
When I look at another user's list, I no longer see that user's other lists in the section to the right, like in the old version (you could see the 5 most recently updated lists by that user).
Now I always see my own lists (More to explore -> Your lists).
Is this something that can be fixed?
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rbwolk1
5 Messages
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114 Points
7 months ago
There should, at the very least, be two options:
1. to view the page as one long list OR in pages
2. to view the list in a condensed form that IS a properly condensed list, without all the data taking up vertical space.
The present form CAN be fine for SOME purposes, but it has eliminated other uses. I can see how this might be fine for casual users, but again, more serious users should have the options to suit their purposes.
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