General
Hi MovieLens users! We recently launched our first major revision to MovieLens since 2003! Please help us grow in the right direction by giving us thoughtful feedback on the design and functioning of the new user experience.
Ideas, questions, and bug reports are all welcome here.
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Spirit recommender
Just signed up for the new recommendation engine and nearly opted out immediately after, because my new top picks do not match my taste at all. But I just realized that this is just because the first two pages are littered exclusively with obscure asian trash movies which received a five star prediction. After the first two pages, the recommendations actually look sensible. So this might in fact be a bug in the algorithm?
1 voteHi Janus, thanks for volunteering to try our experimental code, and sorry about the fail. There is a problem in the implementation that you’re observing, and that we will fix really soon.
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Recommenedation based on "semantics" of the email address?
I used my private email for signing up and a nickname that has nothing to do with the email. my email address includes my surname which is slavic. I've got quite of few top recommendations for Russian movies.Is this a coincidence or part of the algorithm? If it is a part of the algorithm you might want to look into that and probably tweek it, there are enough slavic people/descendents of such who are not at aimiable terms with the Russian culture. Absolutely no offence to the Russian movies! It just stroke me that those recommendations came up, and you…
1 voteWe do not use email addresses to recommend movies. Your recommendations are based on your ratings.
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Bring the Buddy search to the new Movielens website
That's the primary feature I use Movielens for. If you were to get rid of that feature entirely, I probably wouldn't use the site.
1 voteClosing as a duplicate of the current #1 feature request.
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refine search results by year!
I'd very much like to refine my search results by year.
1 voteThat is possible. Add a release date filter to any search. We’re investigating ways to make “advanced search” easier and faster to use.
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Opening movies in new tabs option.
When you are browsing the movies clicking on a movie recomendation will open it up in a new tab.
1 voteSorry, I cannot replicate this bug.
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Bring back the stars Legend
From time to time I forget if a 3 star movie was Good or Ok and so on for other star ratings. The legend helps me(us) be consistant with rating movies.
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Show trailers
Find trailers for movies on YouTube or another source and have them integrated into each movie page.
1 voteThey are already there on most popular movies.
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Display Issue: "Sort By" dropdown on search result page [and elsewhere]
On page: https://movielens.org/explore?q=Amateur
sort by:
recommendedratings
release date
date addedCurrently pops out to the right, due to "excellent" UI positioning in the first place, this results in half of it not appearing offscreen to the right in Chrome and 1/3 in IE. This needs to pop in to the left in its current position, seriously where was the testing? It is a bizarre world out there, and perhaps it is self-fulfilling design philosophy but features such as "sort by" should not be dismissed, users do use such features if they are CLEARLY made available and EASY to use.…
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High quality costume dramas
Edwardian, Victorian, Vanderbilts, Million dollar princesses. ect.
1 voteI have no idea what you are asking for – would you please clarify?
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Way to filter by release year
Would be nice having a configurable filter by release year. Have been recommended 70~80's movies I will probably never watch and are cluttering my recommendation list =.
Please add this feature -1 voteYou can add a “release date” filter to any search (see the dropdown). Does this get you what you’re looking for? Possibly you’re looking for a way to make these filters more persistent.
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Bring Back the Star Legend Ratings Guide
Hi! Dig the new site, but I really miss the "Star Legend" ratings guide that was in the upper right-hand corner of the old site. I can't find it anywhere. It's necessary, because different sites use different ratings criteria. For example, Goodreads.com uses a five-star system where two stars is "It was OK", but on Movielens, two stars means "Fairly Bad".
1 voteThanks for the feedback. I’m going to close this idea; please instead leave your feedback on this duplicate idea:
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Can you please distinguish films that I have already seen from those that I haven't?
I don't remember every film I've seen and I used to look up Movielens to check. This is not possible anymore, as there is no difference in layout for recommended ratings and existing ratings. I find the new layout altogether pretty shit if I may say so. After many years and more than 1300 rated films I am seriously considering giving it a rest.
1 voteDoes https://movielens.org/explore/your-ratings not work for you? Also, click the “list view” for the no-graphics view, which you would probably prefer.
You are not the first user to say negative things about the interface without suggesting anything helpful. Use classic.movielens.org.
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troubleshooting
hey, i've been trying to add the following movie but i keep getting error messages, saying to contact you guys:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2338864/
please advise on how to proceed!
1 voteClosing since this is now in our ticket system.
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What happened to Movielens??
Really poor recommendations. Your algorithm has been ruined
1 voteSorry to hear that. If you describe how it’s worse, then we can try to make it better. Surprisingly, we are not actually trying to ruin your experience.
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MovieLens does not seem to be sorting correctly.
When I view the list of top picks for me, and chose the sort option "recommended", I notice that the sorting does not entirely correspond to the predicted star ratings. For example I have several 4 star predicted movies mixed in with 4.5 star movies in the sorted list.
1 voteThanks for the bug report.
That is actually by design – we now take a number of factors into account when building lists of recommended movies. Predicted rating is the most important factor, but no longer the only factor.
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New Image-Based version inferior to Old Text-based Version
I gave comments before when I was in the beta similar to the comments I am making now.
I MUCH PREFER THE OLD VERSION, which was highly text-based and with lots of detail to draw from.
I doubt you're going to go back to the old ways but please try to build out this version to increase the amount of detail and ease of manipulation and control that the old version had.
I'm disappointed that you choose to make the image-based version mandatory.
Matt Ware
1 voteThanks again for the feedback. Two things to note, if you haven’t noticed:
1. classic.movielens.org
2. you can click on “list view” on any search result for a more compact representation of the lists of movies -
And why did the "buddies" function disappear?
What's with the removal of the "buddies" function?
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New site design is truly awful
Where is the advanced search?
I hate the new site design. I find the dumbed-down, Amazon/Google like interface awful, superficial, and unhelpful.
Why do you think people really use movielens? For me, it is certainly not to be presented with pointless images and prettied-up pages that aren't functional.
And by the way, I'm not using a mobile/cellphone to access the site. The assumption seems to be that the site user is using their thumb to navigate. That is an incorrect assumption. I want functionality and useful features, not dumbed-down pretty pages.
Scrap it please.
1 votePlease include constructive thoughts in future messages, and we will consider them. Mean-spirited rants don’t actually help us much, though they do make us feel badly. Please keep in mind that this is a free service developed by a research lab, not a commercial venture.
In the meantime, just keep using classic.movielens.org.
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why different recommenders if i cant compare them?
if i could sort by "your rating vs predicted rating" i would have an idea. the whole point of this website for me is to get accurate predictions. looking through 50+ films to have an idea which recommender works best for me is not a thing i wanna do
3 votesBecause we are a research lab, and we are attempting to learn from that feature. Both “the wizard” and “the warrior” have similar accuracy characteristics.
If you don’t like the feature, don’t use it.
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