Title pages — new version available for sneak peek

It definitely shows a different video, and not one among the 9 attached to the title.

But the title is Netflix content, and the trailer _is_ about Netflix. I didn't watch the whole thing. Are you sure The White Tiger is not mentioned in it?

I don't know anything technical about html / desktop browsers, but it seems the ambition for mobile support requires the programmers to make the website more stupid and clumsy.  So any useful features created in the last 3 decades of browser evolution have to be abandoned.  IMDB wants us to believe this mobile friendly strategy is an improvement.  I think it's utter garbage, and I wish they would create a 'stupid' version just for mobile devices and stop punishing the rest of us.

@racliff

'a stupid' version just for mobile devices...

Mobile Site A streamlined version of our site designed for use on mobile devices
https://m.imdb.com/

Get the IMDb App
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id342792525?_branch_match_id=884879503319194693

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kvothe, this is 1 change that I actually like.

I have a lot of lists, and I often add 1 title to multiple lists.

The mouseover the add-to-watchlist icon in the "old" version can take a long time. It also closes after every click.

The new function, with 1 click to open the list, immediately responds with an empty pop-up, then fills in my lists, and stays open for me to click on as many lists as I want.

For me, the only downside to the new version: it doesn't refresh the order of the lists if I close and reopen that pop-up.

Also, I don't see the harm in having 2 ways to add a title to the Watchlist.

BTW, I strongly dislike other aspects of the new version:

• the long vertical layout,
• having cast in 2 columns,
• multiple ads (or the blank spaces they leave with an ad blocker) interrupting the data,
• the tiny release year,
• not using the term "keywords" on the page,
• that if you run the page half-width on a desktop browser, you get no navigation tool for the carousels

and possibly other things I'm forgetting at the moment.

Update : the "Element Picker" feature of uBlock Origin allows to clean up the mess that is the new Title page. But it's not a solution if every single user has to tweak the layout to make it work...

Another issue I found out was that it randomly switches between "m.imdb.com" and the regular "imdb.com" when you click on whatever internal link. If the purpose of this big change is to make the same layout optimal on all devices, why are there more than one version of it? So far, it's optimal nowhere.

I think it would be very helpful if you could keep track of, and/or report, which links go off to m.imdb.com

If you use the internal feedback form (linked at the top of the new title page), I think only the first choice, "was broken", gives you boxes to describe the problem.

briancham1994,

Do you use a vpn that variously makes you appear to be in countries that speak those languages?

Hello bderoes, no, I don't have anything like that. https://www.whatismyip.com/ tells me the correct location.

@briancham1994  In which country are you located and please can you give two or three specific titles where you seeing the wrong language? Please also let us know your "Title pages" settings from https://www.imdb.com/preferences/general  (top two menus). 

FWIW you might be better both on old and new title pages in setting the "Title display country/region" menu to "Original" (it's the first item in the menu) on the above content preferences page. Owing to complexities in the IMDb data model and our alternate title coverage, this is the recommended option if you are having issues and it opts you out of all localised titles across IMDb 

Hi! @Col_Needham 

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25 days ago

@Taylor, Employee
How many Votes does it take to keep the OLD version ? ?
Votes
Jan 13: -14
Jan 20: -17
Jan 27: -21
Feb  7: -23

Where is the "Change View" located on the New version togoto 
Content Settings - IMDb
for The reference version for Contributors ? ?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6473300/reference

Need to keep this option ! !

https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/imdbcom/title-pages-new-version-available-for-sneak-peek/5fc7eae5ce4ce1357af24f6d?commentId=5fff791b9d724d58356ab17b

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@Col_Needham , here are my current settings:

Three specific films that have incorrect titles only in the new page layout:

• Schindler's List shows up as "La lista de Schindler"
• Over the Moon shows up as "Más allá de la Luna"
• Horse Girl shows up as "La chica que amaba a los caballos"

Your suggestion does fix the issue, but it was quite obscure.

Thanks for confirming, @RaviNathan . Did you compare the old and new layouts? For me, that happens in the new layout but not the old layout.

All three titles have alternate titles listed as "World-wide (Spanish title)".

@Peter_pbn & @briancham1994  Interesting bug, thanks.  We will make sure the team sees this. 

+1 to @Col_Needham — thank you all for the detailed bug reporting. I'll comment again if we need more information to root cause this issue.

Here's another, route to get misdirected to the mobile version, yet with the same cause (the &mode=desktop&rtm=1&rtm_sr=1 paramaters):

From the new title page, of a tv series, click on the link to view all episodes by rating:

https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?series=tt0060028&view=simple&count=250&sort=user_rating,desc&mode=desktop&rtm=1&ref_=tt_eps_rhs_sm

Then do a search for a new title in the top search box, hitting Enter to see all results:

https://m.imdb.com/find?s=tt&q=friends&ref_=nv_sr_sm

Right. Intermediate colors, not too light and not too dark.

Agree that character/actor scanning is greatly impaired by the new layout.

Agreed. So big everything has to be today with the new design (which I of course never use unless we are forced to), one could think that we are all blind and can't read small font sizes. The truth is, we are not blind, and we can clearly read the small-sized fonts which we have on the old version that I and many other IMDb-users still use. The big-sized photos and fonts in the new version are just annoying, take too much space and require unnecessary more scrolling.

I do clearly understand that IMDb wants to make their site mobile-friendly, but they could at least pay some attention to desktop users too, like me and dozens of others who never use the site on mobile devices, and only want simple ways to find information without having everything to be big and fancy.