Updates to List Pages

Colin, question; in the midst of these updates, are you planning to add a feature where we can find lists on IMDb?  Because right now, there's no way.  You can't go through the most popular ones, the most likes, the only ones you can see are those that have been most recently made or by using google, which is limited usually to a scant few popular ones, we're talking about maybe a few dozen.  Right now, the only way that we can make others remotely aware of our lists is to include links on others' lists, in a 'if I comment on yours, could you comment on mine' sort of way.A feature like this would make lists far, far more accessible, hugely increasing views and therefore ad money. 

Hi Chris,Until IMDb adds the ability to search for a list with IMDb you can use Google to do this kind of search.This is the general form to add to the search box:site:imdb.com/list {search terms}where {search terms} is word or phrase for which you are searching.For instance, if you are search for lists related to Christmas.Enter, this in the Google search box.site:imdb.com/list ChristmasThis produces the link:https://www.google.com/search?ei=8642WvCdCMvImAHL5a24Dg&q=site%3Aimdb.com%2Flist+Christmas&o...You, other IMDb users and I have requested an indigenous IMDb list search for the last five years. Such a search would be more convenient and useful. However, this approach works fine in most cases.If you agree that a list search facility would be useful,you can indicate your support by clicking the "+LIKE" buttonor by posting a reply on the request thread at:https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/i_think_a_search_engine_for_list_name_is_necessary

How much revenue do those 100 million additional customers bring to the site?! How much data contribution and troll suppression do they bring?! Why do they matter so much?! Is it just because there are a whole lot of them?! Whatever...

@ Karen, Official RepYou said:We increased the number of items you can see in a list (up to 250 per page) to help users with long lists move items around since drag-and-drop is no longer availableHow do we control this number of items we see? I still get 100 per page (and that's good for normal situations).

It looks like that was only changed for edit mode.  If they would please increase it to 250 for viewing purposes that would be a step in the right direction.  Hopefully they can reinstate compact mode after that.

updates to the new systemdon't you mean "fix what you broke" or "go back to what we had previously"I often read here about 'community' but your autocratic changes show you care little of the community that uses your website.

I too found that Edit mode now displays 250 titles, but find no option to reduce that to 100.Ironically, Edit mode is the least efficient at displaying thumbnails, since it is dynamically compressing an extra-large image into a tiny space, and takes visibly longer to finish loading than other types of pages. See this thread for more documentation, posted 10 hours ago: https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/site-constantly-loading-yet-fully-loaded?topic-reply-list[se...I suppose the good news is we can open multiple tabs/windows of Edit mode to see both where the title is and where it's going, and have the number of titles/page match. But this is no substitute for drag-and-drop. As documented again in more detail 3 days ago here https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/update-to-list-pages?topic-reply-list[settings][filter_by]=a..., moving titles within lists is a messy business. I don't know if there IS a fool-proof way of moving multiple titles at once and have them land in the exact location you want (at least not without the human understanding the algorithm so well you can predict where it will land). If we have to move 1 title at a time to ensure its location, then we need to refresh  (potentially multiple pages) after each move. With a longer Edit view, that means longer refresh time, and needing to use ctrl-F and other keyboard shortcuts to get to the place on the page that you need. This implies that we need an option to display only 100 titles in Edit mode.It also implies that we still need drag/drop! As I recall, it was only 50 titles/page for that view, probably because things get wobbly with dynamic "card" placement.

Edit mode is the least efficient at displaying thumbnails, since it is dynamically compressing an extra-large image into a tiny space, and takes visibly longer to finish loading than other types of pages.Correct. Shows how little IMDb programmers know about web design. And seriously what does a 40px x 57px image do to a page except add a little color. It is so small it might as well not be there. Which is exactly the point. BRING BACK COMPACT MODE.

The active links to external websites (e.g. Youtube) stopped functioning again.Here's an examplehttp://www.imdb.com/list/ls005313331/

It would  be nice if the a 'Synopsis' column is added in the .csv export.The 'Description' column serves for user's comments only.Like this...--

Also ..would like to have the 'Original Title' included if possible, i.e. basically what is in the header of the movie.-

@ Karen, Official RepHere's a simple example that still fails (destination also placed in comment to track success/failure). Note, title 3 is unaltered; so what was ABCDE is supposed to come out EDCBA:And here's the failed result of Save List Order, instead of EDCBA, is ECDBA:Here's a simpler one; just move the first title before the 4th one:and the result is NOT what the human wanted.(I won't clutter the post here, but moving a title ABOVE it's current position DOES give the expected result, as it did previously.)So there is not much improvement since the idea exchange back here on 17 Jan:https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/update-to-list-pages?topic-reply-list[settings][filter_by]=a...https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/update-to-list-pages?topic-reply-list[settings][filter_by]=a...I wonder if the techs have considered my comments here:https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/update-to-list-pages?topic-reply-list[settings][filter_by]=a...specifically:I mentioned ... that Information Science has studied the problem of sorting/merging extensively. But I'll bet most if not all academic articles on the subject deal with an objective, unchanging key by which the items should be sorted.Hopefully IMDb staff are realizing that when we specify that we want an item to appear before the title  currently at position n, they need to hang on to the actual title, not just the number n. Otherwise many combinations of moving more than one title at a time will fail."Position n" is apparently still NOT an objective unchanging key when certain combinations of moves are requested.

But still no refine in edit mode. Makes editing a list near to impossible.

THANK YOU!

One more little request can you do 250 per page like it is in edit mode?

What is the status of bringing back the ability to edit the "Description box" of an IMDb entry? I am hoping that in addition to creating [b]BOLD[/b] and [i]italic[/i] (currently the only editing features I am aware that are available), I would like to once again colorize my text. Colors like [blue]BLUE[/blue], [red]RED[/red] or any of the other colors once available on: https://www.imdb.com/activity/help/descriptionmarkup would be GREAT!!

Also if you could set default views for our lists.Another thing which I'm sure you haven't got to yet is to include the vote amounts next to the average IMDB score and any score that is 7 should be 7.0 or 8 should be 8.0 just so it aesthetically look better like it does in edit mode.