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Title pages — new version available for sneak peek
IMDb is working on updates to the Title page. The new version of the page is mobile-responsive, meaning all features are available on devices of all sizes, and has a modern look and feel — otherwise it maintains all the functionality of the current page, though some features have moved on the page.
The new version of the page is available to a limited group of fans during a beta period. During the beta, some features are still under construction, and you may encounter bugs.
UPDATE: now available!
- Recently viewed
- Related News
- Awards & Top 250
- More like this
- “Character” links are now included in the Cast section.
- The Episodes section now includes a link to all top-rated episodes for TV series.
For more information, check out this Help article.
nathanna
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96 Points
3 years ago
I think it looks good BUT i am not a fan of the way they took away the iconic list-style formatting of the credits, cast, etc. If they can find a way to merge/do something that takes a little from both then I think that would be best. :/
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Decisiveness
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60 Points
3 years ago
The new design is too busy visually, in my honest opinion. Most notably, the change to the cast layout. Having it split into two columns is off-putting, to put it mildy. I tried to let it sink in, but it seems no amount of time will make me feel any more comfortable with violating what I believe to be a cardinal rule of layout design. Maybe they're trying to increase the image size of each cast member and so want to still fit as many people as they can before needing to toggle the expansion, but it is overwhelming. The eyes shouldn't need to dart both side to side, up and down and diagonally in order to scan the page to find a cast member. Lists should remain lists. To me, it's a pretty fundamental rule that each column in a table/matrix should denote a unique field or type. To smoosh the same object (cast member) together into two columns looks and feels so wrong to me in ways that I am struggling to find the words to describe.
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samflash
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60 Points
3 years ago
The major difference i noticed was similar title tabs. it's a useful feature. the suggestion of similar titles. Plus, unnecessary information is highlighted, I mean to say cast info, not many want to know about the cast, some do, but that too of main characters. So, I think you should minimize the size of it, keep it but make it a drop-down to look for more.
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ttyymmnn
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60 Points
3 years ago
I simply do not understand the current fascination with round photos. The pictures for the cast look terrible and, in some cases, do not even include the person they are meant to portray. Richard Bright is a horse?
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erick_5ivf17f186m94
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1.2K Points
3 years ago
Not really a fan of the new layouts for the Title pages, etc. Why not give each user an option of which site layout to use?
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Emrys
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60 Points
3 years ago
It needs to have similar movies window as it used to so we can check sequels, prequels and similar content with easy
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eliz82
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70 Points
3 years ago
My suggestions about the new design:
1) Please put the movie year on the right side, next to the movie name, with the same font size. It will be nice to be in brackets.
I really don't like year under the title with such small fonts. You can barely see it. Movie year is important!
Also I consider the movie title fonts to be to big in the new design.
P.S. I like the new design, the responsive scaling and the fact the width of the page is bigger
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DraPa
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112 Points
3 years ago
In the new version, I hope you will include for sure, the chapter MORE LIKE THIS, which I consider VERY helpful, because it offers sugestions to similar movies or TV shows. It helps a lot in various searches.
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rcmoore76137
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564 Points
3 years ago
When I Share to Twitter it used to say "Title (year)" now it says "Check out this link...
Something is wrong with the new layout.
Please change it.
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Milt
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100 Points
3 years ago
It was always great to see the 'Release Date' of the movie up beside the 'Title of the Movie'. You kept have the year the movie was released so why drop the day and month?? Now it is really disconcerting and not handy to have it so far down the web page! Really not pleased, hope this is 'not set in stone' and you may reconsider moving it back up near the title of the movie.
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SprinklrSucks
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90 Points
3 years ago
Please do not reveal episodes summary upfront!
I am currently viewing "In the name of the rose" - a murder mystery - at episode 6 and wanted to look up an actors name. And even before the cast list I saw the synopsis for episode 8! Spoiling the series!
If anything change order to show episode 1 - NO MORE! -, or rather hide episode resumes all together upfront...
I often try to limit viewing IMDB just because the cast list shows number of episodes upfront (again revealing/indicating stuff like who might be killed off, is a short part etc) and now you gone so far to make TV series a one episoder thing?!?! "Just see the ending - IMDB reveals the rest for you" could be this designs' new slogan
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bderoes
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116.7K Points
3 years ago
The add-to-list function continues to behave poorly.
When you make changes to what list(s) the title belongs to, close the dialog and reopen it, the changes are _not_ reflected until you browser-reload the page. (I've also tried this with extensions turned off.)
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kilojolt
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60 Points
3 years ago
apparently no one else cares but if you guys are gonna waste your time on a redesign, can you throw in a dark mode please? i am extremely sick of websites trying to blind me.
also the two-dimentional cast layout is annoying. if i make the page narrower, it goes back to one-dimentional but horizontal and therefore even more stupid because it requires more input to scan.
your lists used to be one-dimentional and vertical. and they were good. keep them that way.
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dnsoft
2 Messages
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70 Points
3 years ago
Hi there!
I am very disappointed with the new look!
Well, if you want to drastically reduce the amount of information on the movie page, then you succeed!
All information are there but now we need an extra click minimum for almost everything.
You can't have same page for desktop and mobile, simply because desktop is 10 times larger and what is most important, desktop is horizontal and phone is not!!!
Also, old desktop version on wide screen monitors has 50% unused space if pages are not zoomed, but if it is, then there is 30% less information on screen! Use this 50% of wide screen and you'll get best web page on the planet Internet!
Stay cool,
best regards,
Damir
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squareman
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182 Points
3 years ago
I find the IMDb mobile app on iOS a much more pleasurable experience than I do the web view on a desktop computer. One of the main reasons: the cast member thumbnails are optically much larger on mobile, making it easier to spot faces I'm searching for when digging into a cast. But in addition to the small photos on the desktop view, there is also a dearth of readable text presentation on the desktop view. It's anachronistic to the design sensibilities and pragmatic realities of decades past. The font size is too small for today's larger, higher-density screens (as it is for my aging eyes). The general information density is a bit tight too! It has been debunked many times over, the old wives' tale that everything must be "above the fold". People do not mind scrolling. Make the info more hierarchal, give it more air, and more pleasurable to read (much like the mobile app is). You can still have the same amount of info and functionality within the desktop app, but it just doesn't need to feel like reading a 19th-century newspaper on microfiche anymore.
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