Watchlist: The concept of a watchlist has evolved in the past two decades, fostering confusion on IMDb.

It's not about a few titles that can't be watched.  If every single item in Netflix or Amazon watch lists could not be watched, they'd have zero members.  Imdb offers zero titles that can be watched.  If I basically will have to hunt for the movies in my "list" anyway in order to actually watch them, a paper list does that and I don't have to log in to look at it. 

Back before the debut of IMDb Free Dive (IMDb TV), technically there was more than zero, but yet a low number like a couple dozen obscure movies (mostly shorts) available for streaming as indexed in the corresponding video gallery pages where ordinarily only trailers and promos can be found.

Maybe.

bderoes, Sadly, the term Watchlist implies that one can watch the media on IMDb. Here are some other possibilities: under considerationwish listregistrywant to watchfuturepotentialdesiredanticipatedsoughtcontemplatedconsideredplannedchosentargetedpreferred

Ideas are not read by IMDb staff, and can languish for years.

Has this confusion finally reached critical mass?

How about "docket"? :P

@bderoes I can confirm that ideas are read by IMDb staff.  We have a process for regularly reviewing idea threads and especially around planning cycles. The team assigned to handle problems / questions on Sprinklr does not often engage with idea threads, however, the product management and leadership teams pay attention to them. In clean-up sweeps over the years I have personally closed hundreds of idea threads because they have been implemented.  Now, of course, there are still hundreds of open ideas and many of those date back years. It is often a matter of priorities, along with when a particular system is scheduled for an update (so when it makes sense to factor in new ideas). Also please be aware that some things which might appear easy on the outside yet can be incredibly complicated to solve across all of the different IMDb interfaces . In some cases we are not committing to implement an idea because it does not (yet) have enough of a general customer impact to be practical; there are also other ideas which might clash with a fundamental business principle or might annoy other customers if implemented -- we keep such ideas open in case circumstances change though.  We also have other ideas and priorities arriving outside of Sprinklr, including customer research panels and other field research. We also have a regular supply of bug reports to fix and system updates to keep IMDb operating smoothly.  Please rest assured that the IMDb software teams are not sitting idly around waiting for work to arrive :-)  I hope this better explains the situation and sorry to hear you thought that we do not read nor act upon ideas. 

"Wish list"