Title pages — new version available for sneak peek

Please, please, don't put black backgrounds with white letters as the only option: for us with migraine or epilepsy this is deadly because the high contrast in the eyes is painful and even dangerous. I won't be able to use IMDB anymore if you don't offer the option to revert this and use a more friendly white background with black letters.

Thank you for your understanding.

I'm sorry, but this new interface is a thing of horror. Some poor soul's put a lot of misguided effort into making the website abhorrent like this, so I may as well put some work of my own into typing up the identifiable issues I have with it other than the fact that nowadays looking at a title page triggers my gag reflex. As a laptop Chrome user, here's what bothers me:

1 - Massive black banner at the top of the page. On the original title page one can instantly see a title's full poster, summary, director, stars, Prime Video availability, and a whole bunch of other junk on the side without scrolling. On the new version the poster and trailer thumbnail is chopped and pretty much only the title information and average rating are visible because of that humongous invasive species of a banner or whatever near the top, which would be filled with a lurid spray of ads if not for your friendly neighborhood AdBlock. Good thing I'm using AdBlock, too; I turned it off for a sec and the resulting commercial whirlwind dropped me into the Blade Runner universe, with dancing hologram ads and titanic logos decimating the sides of buildings.

2 - The "Your Rating" feature takes a full two seconds to populate. So if I want to see my little blue star rating for "Jaws" at the top of the page which, by the way, is one of the only useful pieces of data one can see before scrolling, I've gotta sit and wait. A user's personalized rating populates the instant the page loads on the old interface.

3 - Too much use of horizontal space. With the old interface, everything important was held within a top-to-bottom bar which is really only maybe half the webpage's full width; the space to either side was either empty, filled with ads and garbage (or just "More to explore" with AdBlock on), or relegated to be used for less important things like related user polls and lists. This maybe sounds a bit wasteful, but it actually kept everything the user should be seeing to one column in the center of the page so they didn't have to dart their eyes around in search of, say, the Metascore which in the new interface is shoved off to the side like it's useless datum. This tall, skinny bar also kept the page from having to expand or contract when the browser window's size was altered, such as if I'd wanted to shrink the window to only fill half of my desktop.

4 - The "Cast" section of the page is gargantuan and takes up 150% as much page space as the original did. Also, the writers and directors for the title are repeated under this freaking huge cast listing, making it eat up even more room with information which is already present farther up. Other sections of the page have similar problems and are far too large.

5 - Sometimes when I click on "Trivia," it takes me to a new page filled with a whole new set of horrors, the greatest of which is the total absence of the "interesting/uninteresting" feature which made the old trivia page feel interactive. Another time I clicked on my user profile and was taken to a lifeless simulacrum which was all dolled up with the new interface. Is this intentional? I couldn't get back to it. I hope it was just a site glitch, because the ghastly spectacle I saw that day was almost more repugnant than I can describe, and I just finished watching "Raw" for the first time.

6 - Almost the entire page is blindingly white. It physically hurts to look at with any kind of brightness emanating from one's computer screen. Worse still, the top of the page is jet-black, so it's like a freaking booby trap since you start at the top and it's all dark and then you scroll down into the paralyzing glow and it feels like you just witnessed St. Elmo's fire. If off-white shades were used as in the original interface, I'd probably be able to see other objects in my room after staring at my computer screen.

All this and the point of these changes is to make IMDb more "mobile-responsive?" Did somebody forget about the IMDb app? There's no need to use a mobile browser to access the site.

First of all, I actually love imdb and it was my No.1 go-to site for everything entertainment related - until I recently learned about this new design.

I am so sorry to be so negative already in the title, but are you serious about this?

This is no rant and I am really trying to not step on any toes, but it is going to be hard not to.

I am merely seeking answers and would be very happy, if you'd decide to give some.

My questions are:

1. Why do you want to change the design?

2. Do you really need to do this?

3. ...I am sorry, I really only have this single question: "Why?"

I really am surprised I can not find anything about this on this forum - does that mean, everyone here is happy with it?

The new design you seem to be not so sure about yourself (why else the sneak peak?) is really aweful.

I can not and don't want to be diplomatic with this: it is aweful.

The old design offers a neat and userfriendly experience. The clarity is perfect. Every section immediately catches the eye.

Why would you want to change this into...., well what you changed it into?

It looks like someone did it in Wordpress or Jomla - not a professional web designer.

If you take a "sneak peak" from the old design the site looses clarity at once.

There are sections not done yet:

More like this
This feature is currently under construction.

Seriously?

Everything is too big - you have to scroll right from the beginning.

Why do you need to place an ad between every section and around the main page (even if it is for a show or movie)?

You are mainly a site to transport information - you could be financed out of your bosses wallet. There is no need for this!

Or is Mr. Bezos not happy with his income?

There have to be more people thinking the same, where are you?

Please consider to say something and change IMDB's mind about this!

Thank you.

This is a complaint - with the new format, mousing over the pictures doesn't tell you who the actor(s) in the shot are.

When reviewing the new version, there is a link that says "report an issue". All well and good. I click the link, get taken to the following page, where I find the appropriate option, which is "was different or missing". So far, still so good, but then when I click on that option, then click "Next", I'm taken to a page where it says "Thank you for your feedback! Your input is being reviewed in order to make improvements!" Huh? What feedback is going to be reviewed? I clicked on the option "was different or missing". What, do you have a psychic working for you?

So, now that my post conveniently was moved to an already existing topic, hence obscuring the urgency or meaning about how much your new design hits the fan for other users, I have no choice to go on here, hoping the bosses read this and take it to heart.

After reading the OP in here and also realizing that this is a beta test, I had a look at the new design on my tablet and was surprised, how well it works - for mobile devices.

It still does absolutely not, in no way, work for normal Desktop Computers.

Everything that's wrong about it, has already been said by other posters in this thread - I agree 100% with them.

I never use my mobile devices for consuming great amounts of information, because I'd like to keep my eyesight and love my neck too much for exchanging them with glasses with lenes like Coke-bottle-bottoms and the mobility of a stick. Getting fat infront of my computer is enough problem for me ;).

So it would be really great, if you people could consider to simply use two versions: one design for mobile and one for desktop - technically nowadays absolutely no problem and keeping everybody happy. Isn't that what you are aiming for anyway?

As I already said in my other post, I love Imdb and I really would love to continue using it - but on desktop computers the new design is not just bad, it is repulsive.

I for one, would look for another source, if the new design like it is right now (2021/01/03) would become permanent.

I've tried submitting feedback but whatever I picked it didn't let me add a comment, just said "thanks for the comment", so here goes...

When you search for something, get a list of autocomplete suggestions and click away somewhere on the page, the autocomplete should close but it doesn't.

It's a small yet irritating problem. Escape works but if you click away first, you need to click back into the search field and then press escape. That's just bad...

Are there any new or improved functions to the movie pages or is the redesign all "cosmetic"?

Please add "seen" button to the page of serie. 
Title : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2306299/

Seen : https://www.imdb.com/seen/tt2306299/

I am a web designer and love the new design. It is very well laid out and organized. Title pages doesn't look like from 90s anymore. I have only one problem so far. Rating a title is not very intuitive. The old design wasn't best either but the new design make it even more complicated. First, when i want to rate a title i always click on the current rating which bring me to the detailed user ratings page, not the rate button. You couldn't be able to click on the rating on the old design. The other problem is that when you try to rate a  title you have to count the stars. It wouldn't be a problem if there would be only 3 stars but there are 10 which makes it unnecessarally complicated to rate a title. It would be helpful to see the rating while hovering the mouse on the stars.  I don't mean exactly like the old design which you cannot tell if you have just rated the title or not because there is no indication when you rated a title.

I like the new page version/layout but I am having an issue (maybe I am blind) locating the feature that was on the old page titled "More Like This".  I used this quite a bit to find other movies to watch that were similar or had similar actors. 

Am I missing this same functionality on the new page version?

Section "More like this" no longer appears in the films' view

Showing the number of episodes below the actor/actress' name in series maybe considered as spoilers as it may reveals a death of a character due to 1 or 2 episodes less than others.

First Impression - I think the improvement is okay,  the only real issue I can see for now is the credit list. I preferred it as a simple and professional list and not a bunch of icons clustered together. 

Like others have noted, this new update is terrible and attempts to fix things that do not need to be fixed. Please reconsider the changes. Thank you.