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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1 vote
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Move the "clear this search" button to the left
First of all, thanks for this tool! I have been looking for something like this for a while. When I make a search using the filter tool, the most intuitive location to keep the "submit" button is on the right side from a UI perspective. It comes out of muscle memory of having the intended action on the right side of the modal. Thank you!
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complementary set movies
Creating "playlists" for movies. Some ideas such as pairing the anachronistic films Knights Tale, Caravaggio and Marie Antoinette together or putting films that have all physical special effects, even connecting movies that all share a creative influence people don't often look into such as cinematographer or musical composition. When having a movie experience often a viewer will become positively biased towards an influence they don't rationally notice, something similar to this idea could help people find the magic of something they have seen in another movie even if they can't place what exactly it is.
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Applying tags to multiple movies
As a new user of the site, I think the tagging feature could be improved upon by having the tagging menu not only showing the movies you've already tagged, but also giving you to possibility to add the tag to other movies as well.
For example: if I have tagged a movie with the composer John Williams, it would be a lot easier if I can assign the same tag to all his other movies by just searching for them and adding them to the tag, than having to go to each individual movie to do it the other way…
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I need m0vies to check
I was given a limited set of bad not liked movies, what gives?
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Allow me to ignore certain genres
I used MovieLens many years ago when it first started, then stopped. Now I'm trying it again, but see that many of the old features are gone. It used to be possible to exclude certain types of movies (e.g. children's, horror, foreign language, etc.). At this point all I can do when I encounter a kind of movie I know I'd never want to watch is to hide it, which is time-consuming.
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stats graph for release years is confusing
The stats graph for rated movies is confusing, the time frame is 5 years but subsequent bars both have years that end with 0 or 5. For example if a movie is released in 1990, it would go to both 1985-1990 bar and 1990-1995 bar. It would be better if the bars would be 1980-1984, 1985-1989, 1990-1994 etc.
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Label movies available on blu-ray
Can you label movies that are available on blu-ray? I prefer to watch movies in this format when possible.
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Upload Netflix Watchlist history to queue movies for ratings
Netflix let's users export their watchlist which is limited to date and title so not the best for exact version matches, but it would make a good fuzzy match to a set of movies with similar names. These could be asked to be rated or at least marked as possibly watched hint to ask later.
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Ratings - will never watch
There are movies that I can't rate, because I did not see them, but I also know that I will never watch them. To the extent that this system tries to identify sentiment, it is important that these can be ruled out. For example, I will never watch horror movies. Will never (knowingly) watch "advertised as dumb" movies, e.g., Will Ferrell, Adam Sandler, etc. type movies.
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For “popularity of your rated movies,” let people see a list of the movies in question
I would love to know what my one “rare” movie is!
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Help button
I very sillily skipped the tutorial at the beginning and have struggled to work out how to rate. I realise it's not that difficult now but spent ages looking for a help button.
Sorry for being an idiot 🤣5 votes -
1 vote
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Add ability to sort alphabetically (universally)
Universally across all the pages on the MovieLens website, the 'Sort by' dropdown currently does not allow members to sort the displayed category's movies alphabetically; just 4 sort options are presented: 1) recommended, 2) # ratings, 3) release date, 4) date added to MovieLens.
From time to time (but certainly not always and certainly not as the default), I'd like to view certain pages sorted alphabetically. Almost 6 years ago, a member posted the suggestion here to add the ability to sort 'My Ratings' (specifically) alphabetically ( https://movielens.uservoice.com/forums/238501-general/suggestions/6378010-add-the-ability-to-sort-my-ratings-alphabeticall ) and a few other members agreed that they'd also like the…
1 voteSorry for taking so long to get to this, We’ve been working to rewrite some of our sort logic for a while just to clean up some really messy code that was getting in the way of changes.
It actually looks like this is implemented in the backend already, so it should definitely be added to the front-end by the next update.
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More movies per page (100, 500)
Sometimes, I go through movies with a low rate count and try to find some I've seen. I know it helps you guys. With the very limited number of movies displayed per page however, it is tedious. If I could choose 500 movies per page, that would be great :)
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Filter wishlist
Give option to hide wishlist (clearly I haven't seen them and would like other suggestions) movies in top picks for you page.
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Export all recommendations
Is there a way to just export the movies that are suggested that fall under "drama" for example ? Or all the recommendations and then I can filter them out - I believe I used to be able to do this on the legacy system.
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IMDB "TV Mini Series" Classification
Many docuseries' that are technically classified on IMDB as a "TV Mini Series" are already in the database (ex. Jinx, The Staircase). However, adding them via a IMDB link always get rejected because of the "TV Mini Series" classification. I don't mind emailing the link for approval, but maybe this can be straightened out?
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Systemize or categorize tags better.
Create some sort of organization for tags and remove redundant tags like "surreal" "surrealism" and "surrealist" or "dreamy" and "dreamlike". Or have a way to have all of these tags under one banner, something more convenient or streamlined.
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Charts improvements
Hi,
First of all let me tell you how helpful this website is. Thank you for your hard work!
It's a bit confusing that there's overlap of years in the "release years of your rated movies" chart. For example, there's a column for movies released between 2000 and 2005, and the next column is for movies released between 2005 and 2010. So, which column counts the movies released on 2005? The former? The latter? Both?!
Also, the "your ratings over time" could use some interactive abilities (focusing on a specific time range, filter out movies by rating, genre and release…1 vote
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