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Wednesday, March 1st, 2023 5:31 AM

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The new designmakes imdb difficult to use for everybody

imdb changed the background color of a movie from dark to the color of the cover itself which makes it very hard to read the text properly because the background simply distracts. I hope imdb will change it back soon and realize the mistake of this change.

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I have this too on Chrome (Android) and Firefox (Computer) on title and name pages, i thought this is a default view after last rededign, isn't it? Agree with JimDeWind, it makes text (mainly plot outline/summary) much harder to read, background can be any color (depends on main photo) which is also not pleasing to eyes. Simple black color/background was much better. Also, font size is reduced after last update, I need to use zoom every time to read plot outline/summary on my phone, and it is made more difficult becuse of aforementioned color backgrounds. Please, remove this color changing effect, it's unnecessary. Several examples:

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@Col_Needham​ Thanks for reply, I hope this display experiment is really temporary, too distracting, dark mode is perfect.

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@Col_Needham​ I also hope the experiment is just a very short one. Because the normal black background was great. Please don't always change things that were good and nobody ever complained about.

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2 years ago

Oh no, color experiment is back again. Everything was normal for about a week (perfect dark mode), and now again with this... 🙁

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My laptop is having hard times dealing with this new blurry background on any title page (see screenshot below). Page loads slower than before, scrolling is not smooth, and any action is being delayed. Though it happens only on title pages, and only with blurred part visible on my screen, it completely ruins experience of using whole website. I use latest Firefox on Win 11, but with Edge it is also bad. I've never experienced such bad lags on any other website, besides Youtube in 'ambient mode', which creates similar blurry background effect, but at least on YT it can be switched off easily. So I blame this (CSS?) effect. Is there any way to disable it? Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled Low performance because of blurry background

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This color change "experiment" is one of the very few things on IMDb that I will probably never get used to. It looks cheap, ugly and definitely too distracting, it HIDES the content, plot outline is practically unreadable, those colors should be more neutral, like on streaming sites, they need to be "behind" the content, not to hide it. I really hope this is not the final version.

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2 years ago

Still terrible and totally unnecessary experiment, definitely ruined my IMDb experience.

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I don't know what the designers of imdb think. Even though it was good they had to change it to make it worse. They always go from good to bad to worse. Can't they just leave things alone. Or at least answer here in the community why they changed this background color.

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Theseus' Paradox "If the ship on which Theseus sailed has been so heavily repaired and nearly every part replaced, is it still the same ship - and, if not, at what point did it stop being the same ship?" Same goes to IMDb.

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@plur62​ I agree

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I still hope that this experiment with colors is really temporary and that at least by the end of this year things will improve, i.e. that the colors will be more moderate, more subtle, so that the content can be read without straining the eyes. This doesn't look any better five months later, unfortunately.

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I'm not a fan of this new hazy effect that appeared a few days ago, I still miss the clean, simple dark mode.

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@Col_Needham​ Visible below the plot, sometimes in the area of ​​the rate button and this one for popularity. It only appears when the title has a trailer, it looks like a reflection of the title name from the poster, you can see the title letters there, it did not appear before

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