There should be a separate list for movies that are already watched and icons should be updated for Watchlist and Watched list

It's quite easy to do on mobile and padds as well I've found

@bderoes .  

Yes I know this and already mentioned in my post that we can manually create a list. There is also a Check-In list that acts as a COMPLETED movies list. This is not my question.

Here have a look at this blue areas in my watchlist:

Does this green marks look PENDING to you? these are icons that are used when something is COMPLETED/WATCHED. not something TO BE WATCHED. But in IMDB it is the complete opposite. Here this icons are used when you add a movie to your Watchlist.

According to IMDB official docs, here is the definition of watchlist:

What is a Watchlist?

Your Watchlist is a great place to track the movie and TV shows you want to watch. They are the movies you want to watch. So that green mark is definitely misleading.

So I am suggesting to replace those green marks with one of these icons: 

And use the existing green mark for the movies you ALREADY watch.

My other suggestion was to put two separate buttons here:

• One one the buttons would add the movie to the list of movies TO BE watched (Watchlist). And icon will be a PENDING icon.
• The other one would add it to the list of movies that have ALREADY watched (Check-Ins). And the icon would be the existing green mark that is currently used on Watchlist.

This is not a platform specific issue. The flow is pretty much similar in both mobile and desktop. That green icon should definitely be used for movies that ALREADY WATCHED.

I hope this clear things up!

I would not find a Watched list as useful as what I do now: break them into custom categories. You can see that in the screenshot I provided above. Besides, lists have a limit of 10,000 titles, which you may eventually find constricting. So starting with a few categories of Watched items might be better than just one bucket.

BTW, Checkins are not necessarily for Watched titles either: the title of the entry box is "I'm watching this!"

The green tick means it's in your watchlist (different to lists you create yourself) - when it's grey it means it's on on your watchlist or have removed it.

@bderoes sorry but I have to disagree with this.

First of all, I don't think a limit of 10000 titles is as constructing as you think. This is a free service and a limitation is expected after all. And personally, I think that limit is more than enough considering my watching pace in my lifespan.. And for customers who watch lots, and I mean LOTS of movies, there may be a premium subscription when they reach 10k titles.

And about your list customization idea, sorry but that is a bit unrelated. I know we can customize/create different lists for our taste, I also use those features (have a separate list for Animated Titles). In my suggestion, the only addition would be that there is another default master list which contains the entire WATCHED movies. I know I can create a list of my own and named it as Completed or stg like that, but that is not the idea. This should be a DEFAULT feature rather than creating it manually.

Think about myanimelist.net you can assume this website as an anime/manga-only IMDB. Here is a sample user profile. There are 5 default lists here.

• Currently Watching
• Completed
• On Hold
• Dropped
• Plan to Watch

Now I am not saying it is necessary to include default lists like Currently Watching, Dropped or On Hold of course. Because IMDB is mostly used for movies and most of the time we watch a movie, finish it and that's it. It is quite unlikely to hold OR drop a movie once you start (I am not saying it never happens of course but we can always create a custom list for edge cases like these). So of course, no reason to add those as defaults. But even so, they added a Check-In feature (I am watching this). They should definitely add a master COMPLETED list too. You can then customize them in any way you want, but there should be a one default MASTER COMPLETED list. Period. Whether it has a limit of 10k or not.. All the other tv, anime, manga tracking websites has this COMPLETED feature. So why not on IMDB?

Last but not least, people may forget a movie that they watched years ago. I, for example, experience this sometimes. And it'd be great to have a look at the title and see a green mark there indicating that I already watched it. Since there isn't any feature like this, I always have to rate a title after I finish it. That way, I make sure that I watched that title before because I rated it. And no, I just don't want to create a manual list for this sorry. 

koray,

I rely upon a user script that colorizes titles (and names) according to which list they're on, or when they're rated. Your description reminds me of how heavily dependent I am on those colors.

@matrix11001 but why should I tick them off? How about moving them to a watched list with a single button?? What if I want to see the list of movies that I already watched as well as the movies on my watchlist? If they prioritize a Watchlist button there, then they certainly may do the same for a Watched list button at the same place mate. And they can position these two buttons side by side :)

I use lists to keep track of everything and add ones I want to watch again to the lists which is separate from watchlist - I use this to keep track of everything I want to watch

I use watchlist as my master list then break it all down in separate priority lists. I think I have abput 30 or so different lists to keep track of everything so it's much easier to manage what I've watched - also as I rate everything I still have access to a list of stuff I've watched in the ratings section