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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Stars Should Remain Orange After Rating Movie
I've just been going through the LONG list of recommendations on the beta & rating movies that I've seen (which turns the blue stars orange) ... I inadvertently clicked off the page I was on & when I returned to where I left off, I noticed that the stars on movies I'd already rated were blue again. It'd be great if the stars could remain orange once you've rated a movie so that it's clear that you've already rated it (like on Netflix, where the red stars turn & stay yellow after you rate a movie) ... EXCELLENT work, BTW!…
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Keep the "about your ratings" feature
Do not remove "About your Ratings" section, please! It's so interesting to see those statistics... Also, at the moment the new version has very few genres...
96 votesReleased!
https://beta.movielens.org/about-your-ratings
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Cool, thanks for the feedback! “About your ratings” was the first feature that I wrote as movielens developer, many years ago :) -
Allow me to view my rated movies
I could not find an option to see the movies I already rated. It had good suggestions and I would like to use it as reference to see some again.
6 votesThis was released in version 4.0.4.
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Imbd link
I really liked the link to imbd site. Very helpful how I didn't need to open new window and find it myself.
1 voteThanks for your feedback!
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How about a smaller font?
The charming of old movielens is the simplicity, and how we can absorb the information. This new format i have to scroll a lot to get the information I've searching for. I think the idea is clean the page, but everything seems bigger than we need.
1 voteWe released two new widgets (smaller tile, list) to address this issue. Thanks for the feedback!
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Stop having my session expire.
I'll use a search feature or sort by suggestions for me and because my session expires I lose my place and have to start over or use a different search method. This is frustrating because even if I try to go back the list is still different and not in the same order.
2 votesThis particular issue should be fixed now. Thanks for the feedback!
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Provide more detail on recommendation engines used for A and B lists in survey
Are they both item-item based? what are the differences? How can we choose between them?
A blog post would be nice.
3 votesDetails published by Ekstrand et al in recsys 2014, though I cannot say which experimental condition you were in.
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2645710.2645737
The system now describes “the wizard” and “the warrior” in the user interface.
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Be able to search without opening menu
Pretty self explanatory. Looks like there's plenty of room for a search bar, and possibly a few more shortcuts, without clicking the little "open menu" button.
7 votesWe reorganized the search a bit so that it is easier to reach. We also added a keyboard shortcut – you can type “/” to open the search box any time.
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We now have a search box that is always present at the top of the page. -
Predictive ratings below the Similar Films listed on a film's page
As well as the ability to sort similar films by highest ratings. After watching a film I liked, I often scanned the old movielens for films with high predictive ratings in the Similar section
7 votesThanks for the feedback!
You can sort by highest rating (click the pull-down on the right side of search pages).
We now have predictions below similar movies.
See also: http://movielens.uservoice.com/forums/238501-general/suggestions/5745134-keep-the-movie-tuner
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"not interested" option; smaller posters; keep recommendation slider
Making a "not interested" option for movies you'll never watch to eliminate them from searches would be helpful. Smaller posters in the Beta with the titles underneath them and more per page (I personally like the posters there, but they seem too large). The thing I like most about the original is the recommendation slider on each movie page, so please keep that!
29 votesThanks for the feedback! We have a “not interested” option in the ratings widget now. We also have smaller posters now.
For your third idea, please add votes to this: http://movielens.uservoice.com/forums/238501-general/suggestions/5745134-keep-the-movie-tuner (planned)
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Options to hide posters / alternative layout
I personally have zero use for the posters. Completely unnecessary clutter. So at minimum an option to hide the posters would be nice. A more preferred approach would be an alternative layout similar to the current old layout. I want to see much information easily and dislike "dumbed down" mobile layouts which hide nearly all relevant information behind several clicks etc.
33 votesThere are many opinions in this thread, thanks everyone! We released new widgets in response. Please try the new version (compact tiles and list view).
I’m going to close this idea, since we took a reasonable shot at addressing the most common ideas here. Happy to hear follow-up ideas.
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Can we keep a list and number of the movies we've seen?
This is the main reason I've stuck with MovieLens over other recommendation sites. I love having a reference guide of what I've seen that I can easily refer to.
25 votesReleased in 4.0.5!
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Please put movie trailer directly under plot description
Why do I have to scroll past similar movies first?
9 votesThanks for the feedback. In the just-released version 4.0.4 the trailers are just below the plot summary.
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Adding new titles
This is a question/suggestion...before, it was up to the community to add new titles, will that still be applicable? How will this work?
12 votesReleased in 4.0.5. We are still working on tools for editing movies.
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Please keep the Wish List feature!
It's very helpful, especially for hard to find movies you perhaps can't see right away.
32 votesThanks for the feedback! Please keep sending ideas about how to improve the wishlist feature. As it stands now, it’s basically the same as in the current MovieLens site.
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Predictive search
when searching, it would be cool to have predictive text like google does
6 votesGreat feedback, thanks! We include this in release 4.0.4.
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Show movie titles when hovering over a cover
Some of the movie covers don't display a title, or the text is too small to read easily. A tooltip showing the title and year when you hover over the cover would help.
16 votesThere is now a hover effect on movie tiles. Thanks for the feedback!
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It seems like the number of genres has decreased. Is that true? Really would miss a "Family" genre.
More genres
1 voteThanks for the feedback. The number of genres has not decreased, we’re just doing a lousy job of linking to them right now. MovieLens now puts a link to “all genres” in the menu.
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Remove movies that I've already seen from the homepage
Keep the current unseen New Releases and New DVDs on the homepage.
13 votesGood feedback, thanks. Especially good to know that you don’t like to see rated movies on the front page.
This change was made in version 4.0.4.
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2 votes
Version 4.0.4, just released, eliminates this redundancy, I think.
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