Better sign-up process
The current MovieLens sign-up process is too difficult to use. Users are required to rate 15 movies from a set list before they can use the system. However, the list is full of older and not extremely popular movies, and some users have great trouble (and some users leave).
Better would be to let new members into the system immediately, with some visual queue that rating more movies would help them to get better recommendations.
Done!
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@marika: you are not the first person we've heard this from. Thanks for sticking with all those pages of movies - you are truly committed :)
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Marika commented
Additionally I'd like to add that I'd rather just search for initial movies to rate rather than have to go through that list. I had to go through almost 200 pages before I found 15 movies that I had seen (admittedly I'm not the most film-savvy but hey).
Unless there's a beta registration process which already allows this, in which case a(n obvious) link on the old non-beta version would be very helpful!
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steven chang commented
We are working on designing a better user on boarding experience now.