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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Order by Recommended doesn't work
I click 'sort by recommended' and I get all kinds of predicted ratings at the top, it should go from highest to lowest, but it's all over the place.
1 voteThis is, currently, the intended behavior of our recommender -- the key idea here is that we think of "predicted rating" and "recommendation" as two separate ideas -- there's more to forming good recommendations than just filling it up with things we predict a person will like if they watch. For instance -- if the recommendation is full of things that the user is unlikely to watch (even if they would rate it highly *if* they did watch it) then it's not a good recommendation is it? An example of this might be recommendations full of obscure, or hard-to-find movies. Another common example is a recommendation full of only one thing (like, recommending only "star trek" movies -- there's enough to fill a page of recommendations, but after recommending one or two, there isn't actually much point recommending the rest *at the same time*)
To try to avoid this, we…
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Shitty user communication
You force me to register, in a much stronger way than the movielens site itself, just to tell me I cannot submit my vote at this time? Who do you think you are?
1 votenot a feature request.
General feedback or bugs can be sent directly to us over email at movielens@umn.edu
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subscribe to conversation updates in uservoice
I'd like to be able to subscribe for updates to topics here I'm interested in, so that if a new response gets posted I get an email :)
1 voteThis is a feature request for uservoice.com, not for the MovieLens specific uservoice form. I'm afraid we can't help you directly with it (since we don't really control uservoice.com, only movielens.org)
FWIW -- as an admin, I have a button "email subscribed voter" -- so I think there is a subscription feature, but maybe it's not obvious how to use it? I suppose if you get this response over email you'll know that the subscription worked!
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Warrior & Wizard - "popular" or "highly rated" - filter suggestion instead
These two are based on "ratings". Is that the NUMBER of people who have rated it, or the average rating score?
You'd think clicking >more popular or <less popular meant you were simply choosing movies which more or fewer voted for, not the average rating. To me, both are problematic, "average taste" is often not at all my taste, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, for example, I have zero interest in seeing those... so these two search methods seem to be a waste of space.. It would be MUCH better to have Warrior and Wizard be categories…
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Filters please
I would like to be able to filter, for example, movies between 1995 and 2005, or whatever. Also to filter language or genre or whether it's an independent or not, etc...
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1 voteHowdy, I don’t think this is the right uservoice form for this question.
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X + Y
"X + Y" is probably better known as "A Brilliant Young MInd":
1 voteThanks for this feedback. In the future, queries and improvements to the movie collection itself are better sent to movielens-content@umn.edu . We only check the user-voice idea suggestions from time-to-time and it’s easy for a query like this to get lost.
Unfortunately, we currently use TMDB: https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/278236-x-y as our canonical source of movie titles, and they still list the X+Y title. I do see the “A Brilliant Young Mind” title over on IMDB, so you could probably go to TMDB and recommend that as a title update — they are pretty pro-active about allowing community edits. If that changes the title in their database it should show up changed on our database as well…
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Genre deflation (assigning everything isn't helpful)
The two most problematic Genres are "Drama" and "Comedy". Because almost every move has some drama and almost every movie has some humor they are incorrectly assigned causing misdirection.
The Babadok, The dark knight rises, Rambo, The hateful eight - a few examples of movies tagged as Drama - while I am sure an argument can be made, that is not what people expect when they ask for a drama to be recommended.
Hartbreak ridge, Focus, Lethal weapon, The cabin in the woods all have some comedy, but not what one would expect when you look for a comedy.
1 voteThanks for your suggestion. Changes to our genre system would be interesting, but very difficult. Currently all our genre data comes from TMDB, therefore I don’t know that we can make this change, but you could look over to TMDB and see if changes can be made there.
You could also look into supporting the MovieLens tags and see if the tagging system better suits your needs.
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Music too inconsistently assigned
The Music Genre is way to inconsistently applied to have any meaning. Examples of movies that don't have Music as a genre - Greatest Showman, Mamma Mia, Grease, etc. (There are many that shouldn't be - A night at the Roxbury, Earthgilrs are easy, etc)
1 voteThanks for your suggestion. Changes to our genre system would be interesting, but very difficult. Currently all our genre data comes from TMDB, therefore I don’t know that we can make this change, but you could look over to TMDB and see if changes can be made there.
You could also look into supporting the MovieLens tags and see if the tagging system better suits your needs.
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Sci-Fi OR Fantasy (not both)
When both Fantasy and Sci-Fi are used as Genre tags it tends to dilute the usefulness of both. Create a restriction that allows you to use one or the other. Yes of course there are some that can be argued to be both, but the easy majority is primarily on or the other.
Hakan
1 voteThanks for your suggestion. Changes to our genre system would be interesting, but very difficult. Currently all our genre data comes from TMDB, therefore I don’t know that we can make this change, but you could look over to TMDB and see if changes can be made there.
You could also look into supporting the MovieLens tags and see if the tagging system better suits your needs.
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Sports as a genre
With the number of movies base on or in around sports, it could be a useful Genre to officially add. Days of thunder, Invinceble, Remember the titans, Hoosiers, Marjor league, Miracle, We are Marshall, Tin cup, the replacements, a league of their own, etc are just a few examples.
Thank you,
Hakan
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How do I fix brother printer not connected issue?
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1 voteHowdy, I don’t think this is the right uservoice form for this question.
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How do I configure Bellsouth email account?
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1 voteHowdy, I don’t think this is the right uservoice form for this question.
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Regarding business model..
Hello,
I joined only a few months ago, and was greatly impressed by the capabilities. Recommendation engines on streaming platforms are limited to the content they have, while movielens is not limited this way. I wanted to offer a few suggestions:
Monetize!: I don't mean from the users, but you can provide links to watch the movie from streaming services, and monetize from them. I think the users will actually appreciate the convenience to start watching a recommendation right away, rather than look at it as an ad. You can still remain non-profit and reinvest the revenue in marketing and…
1 voteWe’re unlikely to change this feature of our service for various reasons. Most notably: We’ve strongly committed to our user that we are not a for-profit monetized service. Some users view this as important to our appeal.
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Popup: Help the community by adding tags
A popup that comes in a few different forms came up wanting tags for a rated movie.
Have no problem with quid pro quo but:
- The popup had no link to the actual movie despite various typical points that normally would such as the movie photo, and movie title. Having a link back to the movie would help jog the memory...
- As was the case, had actually added more tags to the movie than the whole community. This seems a pointless affair, the likelihood of adding a new tag(s) to a movie is surely going to be much…1 voteThanks for the feedback. That feature is no longer live, as it was part of a short-term research experiment.
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Mobile
Hi,
I appreciate that you have put a lot of work into this remodel. For the mobile version, I would love to have a list view without thumbnails. I don't need the pictures and it limits the number of
Titles to just two a page on my iphone. I can't see a list at a glance. I'd rather have a much higher density of text based titles without thumbnails. It was much more usable previously because I could glance at a list of titles you recommend. Thanks for a great ad free service. I see that I can use classic.movielens.org…2 votesThanks for the feedback. I’m going to close this as a duplicate of
I understand your desire to use an image-free version. How does the “list view” feature work for you? (not supported on the front page, but works on all other search pages)
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this tablet-style layout version is unusable.
Old version is not trendy sexy, but it does what it is needed. No need to dumb everything down.
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This layout looks like a phone app.
The new site looks like it's designed to be viewed on a phone. I'm not browsing from my phone, I want it to look like a proper website.
1 voteThanks for the feedback. There are several other threads concerning the lack of information density on the initial version, so I’m closing this one. We’re addressing these issues, hope to get an iteration out for feedback soon.
Not sure what a “proper website” is, so that’s not too helpful to us as we revise our designs.
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bring back old movielens
new work remains full of inconsistencies and bugs; such as not showing "show trailer" in movieexplorer, which does nothing anyway.
Out with the new, bring back the old plz.1 vote -
Oh, men... -_- You can guess marks for movies I've seen. But your recommendations are FANTASTICALLY WRONG! I saw 6 films and liked none. Bye
Both Warrior and Wizard... don't work well!
1 votesorry :(
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