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  1. Rank a list of movies which a user supplies.

    I have a list of movies which I want MovieLens to rank as to which ones I would like the most. This list is shorter than the MovieLens universe of movies.

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  2. tag auto completion when entering new tags to movies

    It would be useful if one got auto completion suggestions for tags when adding new tags to movies. Similar to what happens when you type in a word in the search bar.

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  3. Sort by length

    This would be a very useful feature if at all possible.

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  4. Share lists by tag/link

    I'd like to be able to share a list of kids movies that I tagged with a unique identifier to a family member by pasting the link to them. For instance: https://movielens.org/explore?tag=Itaege&hasRated=ignore&sortBy=tagScore

    Tried it already (the family member made an account to view the link) and did not work as expected.

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  5. Search autocomplete & results don't match

    When you type something into the search field you get some autocomplete suggestions, but when you perform the search not all suggestions are shown in the results.

    For example:
    I type in "boot"
    I get the following suggestions: Das Boot, Phone Booth, Booty Call, Puss in Boots (in addition to this, it also matches people)
    I click search
    I get the following results: Boot Camp, Das Boot

    The autocomplete search seems to do partial matching ("boot" matches "booty"), but the actual search results only does exact matching.

    I would like the search to give partial matches just like the autocomplete…

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  6. Donations?

    Are you taking donations to keep the site up and running?

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  7. new site's search filtering much more cumbersome

    The old site, with all search options in a left-hand tile, was much easier to use. Now you're devoting LOTS of pixels to thumnails of DVD jackets; I find them rather useless. Instead you spoon-feed the search options, so it is MUCH more tedious to, say, select a genre, a medium type (DVD vs. theatrical), and a release date.
    This is NOT an improvement.

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  8. Movies should be clustered by a similarity index developed using an affinity measure

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  9. Jinni.com

    Please take a look at Jinni.com. There site is the best movie and tv show personalized recommendation site out there. They even give recommendations on what to watch on your tv (dish, direct tv, etc.) in the upcoming schedule. Also, Jinni.com is closing their site.

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  10. indicate "already seen" near a film

    today Movielens recommend to me the godfather.
    maybe i have not yet rated this film (i don't remember).
    anayway, i don't want to see this film recommended to me again, so could you maybe make a button available "already seen ?"

    Best Regards

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  11. Getting my mood about a movie

    I see very rarely emotional tags put on a movie. But I think it is very important, but most of the time it is just not trivial to the user to share why really liked that movie.
    Not sure how, but these latent factors would be more useful for me to find a movie fitting my current attitude.

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  12. Sending a survey in email soon after the premiere of a movie

    Maybe you need to know the date of premiere in my country, but anyway, i think it would be a good way to get hot feelings about the movies.
    Just send me an email in every week: did you see the xxxx? If so, please rate.

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  13. Include Alternate Movie Titles

    Searching for movie titles in the old movielens was more effective for various of reasons. If my memory is not wrong, it used a different matching algorithm which looked for titles with similar words so misspellings could be usable. But more importantly, titles for foreign movies included English title and original language title (with English spelling if necessary!). The new search model makes it difficult to find some movies because they are known to many by a different name. Showing and allowing to search by alternate movie would titles can be very useful including the case when the alternate movie…

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  14. Add Content Rating Filtering

    It would be nice to be able to filter out R rated movies.

    It annoys me when I'm looking for a movie to watch with my mum and all I can find are R rated movies.

    Loving the site!

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  15. Sort movies by duration

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  16. low rated item to be excluded

    I thought the low rated items are treated as negative weight. I would not like to see movies similar to low rated ones.
    Although I saw many movies I prefer the quality one. I love sci-fi, but based on my profile... it seems I prefer music related ones. That's why there are few high quality sci-fi movies. Too many actions and visual applealing kills the spirit of the movie. :(

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  17. Private Tags as well as community tags for the special needs

    "Eric's Dvds", "Owned", "lord of the ring", "love It. dan", "hell ya!", "box", "seen at the cinema", "2" are just a few of the less interesting gems for Forrest Gump. There is nothing to stop MovieLens from analysing private tags if it anything this has the benefit of greater personalisation while not creating a steaming pile. Sure "owned" has some sort of a correlation toward rating but this has no benefit to the community and is just clutter.

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  18. Allow Mobile IMDB URLs to Add a Movie

    When adding a movie, you don't accept mobile IMDB URLs. I mostly rate and add movies on my phone so every time I copy&paste a URL from IMDB I have to manually change m.IMDb.com to www.IMDb.com in the URL. Other than the change of "m" to "www" the URLs are identical. This feature should be an easy change to the movielebs code.

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  19. Top Picks

    I find the way the new movielens handles top picks confusing. I expect to see a list sorted by predicted "star"levels, but unlike classic movielens, the list is obviously not sorted in that order.

    If the list is not sorted by what I am predicted to like, then how is it sorted? By what movielens wants me to like or watch?

    I would like a list sorted by predictions for me. I could then scan the list jumping over any recommendations I'm not interested in. In the classic movielens, if I knew I wanted to watch a particular genre, I…

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  20. make movie page visible to non registered people

    It would be nice for people that are not users of MovieLens to able to see the movie page itself. i often share on facebook what i see and friends cant see the page. =)

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