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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. refine search with boolean filters

    Could you add a feature to refine search with operators ?
    I mean, it is actually possible to search by multiple tags, for example :

    "eighties, superheroes, drama"

    it would be awesome to be able to be more accurate with boolean operations, eg.

    "eighties +horror +teen"

    "superheroes +vilains -batman"

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  2. ratings analysis : chart to see which are your "favorite" years.

    After having seen the "release years of your rated movies" chart,
    I was thinking about how would look a chart that analyze which are our "favorite" movie years, based on the movie ratings.
    For a fan of sci-fi / horror, for example, it would be the 80's.

    For a fan of superheroes, there would be a peak those years, etc.

    How cool would that be ?

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  3. Set a movie as "favorite"

    Hi, it would be great to be able to set a movie as favorite ones : sometimes I adore a movie, but I rate it lower than another one I don't like so much (because of the mood, etc). It would be nice to be able to flag our favorites movies - the one you would bring with you on a desert island.
    This could eventually be achieved with lists (https://movielens.uservoice.com/forums/238501-general/suggestions/5533426-can-we-keep-a-list-and-number-of-the-movies-we-ve), but an heart icon that you click next to the stars (or something like that) would be even more nice. (like on senscritique.com)
    thanks !

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    under review  ·  Max Harper responded

    Thanks for the idea. Letterboxd also has this feature. I think lots of folks would like this.

  4. DVD release status (was: buddies and DVD reases)

    I like the interface but let's not loose functionality along the way. Buddies were great for selecting movies both me and my wife will enjoy and DVD format (= watch at home) having a small child is a basic functionality.

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    under review  ·  Max Harper responded

    Thanks for the feedback. We’d like to add a feature where movielens knows more about format availability for the movies in our database.

    We have a separate issue (with lots of support) for bringing back the buddies feature, so I retitled the ticket to reflect your request for DVD release status.

  5. Expand the statistics Movielens provides

    Can Movielens, based on my ratings, provide an estimate of my preference for the work of particular directors, screenwriters, and actors?

    Also, it would be great to see an estimate of my preference for different combinations (e.g., directors x screen writers, or directors x actors).

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  6. Allow us to rate combinations of genres / tags.

    For example I keep getting movies with the genres "Comedy, Romance" together which sums up the two things I most hate in a movie, comedy is good combined with other things (for argument's sake let's say action or adventure) and romance is also okay if it's a minor addition to other things, but if a movie is JUST comedy + romance I don't want to see it!

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  7. Cannot find the RSS feature from the old version (to see which were the last 20 movies I rated)

    I really liked the RSS feat feature of the old version. It often helped me remember the name of the movie I wanted to recommend to a friend. I also found it interesting to see which were the last 20 movies or so I had watched and entered on the side...

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  8. need a filter to sort by recent dvd release

    I would like to be able to see whether anything at redbox is worth renting

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  9. add friends (via social media)

    functionalities:

    see their statistics (as we can see our own which is nice!)
    make recommendations to one of them or a group of people, write them 'personal reviews' (PR)

    ...

    2 votes
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  10. Link to films available on Netflix

    It would be useful to be able to filter films by only those available on Netflix

    Right now have to do a search for any film that has a high rating from movielens

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  11. 6 votes
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    under review  ·  Max Harper responded

    I’ll keep this idea open in case it attracts discussion. However, we have no ability to connect movielens ratings with Netflix ratings. We are planning to support import from imdb and export ratings pretty soon.

  12. Dark theme

    I tried to use Firefox's dark color switcher, but it overlays over the stars (so I can't se recommendations). Since your focus is movies, a dark theme seems logical. Many of your users browse this site with an HTPC. Many HTPCs (like mine) use dark themes,,, specifically because it's more amenable to night viewing. Please give us a dark theme option.

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  13. Make link to IMDB re-use browser tab

    I think that the old site behaved as follows: if you had already used a link to IMDB from ML, and did not close the resulting browser tab, clicking on a subsequent IMDB link from ML would re-use that tab. New UI creates a new browser tab for every IMDB link clicked. Maybe this is an IMDB issue, maybe a browser issue, maybe ML issue.

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  14. Plot summary

    I would like to have a plot summary when the cursor is hovering over a title.

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  15. Display list of movies for rating statistic

    In the About your ratings, it shows graphs of movies based on year, rareness, etc. But it only gives the number, whereas I don't know which of my movies qualifies as "rare" or "common" and I'm also curious to see why I have a spike in movies from 1985-1990

    4 votes
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  16. change colours

    I find the pale-ish blue against the white combined with the spacing between rows (with the ratings in blue) for the titles too hard to read.

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  17. Easier way to compare and re-rate rated films

    I'd really like a sort of "drag and drop" method of re-shuffling and reorganizing my various film ratings.

    It would be really helpful if one could clearly contrast and compare, for instance, their 5-star films vs. their 4-star films vs. their 4.5-star films. Maybe there could be panels side by side which you could scroll through (a 5 star panel, 4.5 star panel, 4 star panel, etc.) where you could drag a film from one to another to change its rating.

    The more films I rate, the more my rating-criteria change. For instance, a film I gave 5 stars a…

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  18. Integration of tags and wish list

    An alternative to the idea of allowing users to create their own lists.

    I know you can create your own tags and view all of the tags you've created, but I feel like it makes more sense to combine this feature with your Wishlist. My vision is that there would be some sort of side bar including your Wishlist, followed by all of your tags (and perhaps the option to sort these tags in an order of your choosing).

    That way you could have tags such as "Wishlist--Classics", "Wishlist--Top rated", "Wishlist--Foreign films", "Recommendations from Emi", "Favorite films", "Films for long…

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  19. 7 votes
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  20. Next page button

    It would be nice to have next page buttons at top and bottom of the page, and for the page to refresh so that you are at the top instead of needing to scroll to the top manually.

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