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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lacks new movies
At least to me, the system gives a lot of movies that I already saw as recommended, but very few movies that I was considering if I should see or not
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Kodi (XBMC) and Plex plugins?
Kodi (former XBMC) and Plex are the best HTPC software. The hardcode movie lovers are using them to organize and watch their movies.
What about of plugins for those?
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increasing the Hd
HD as we know inreases the beauty and perfect picture to be observed by the clients (Viewers).This will help in increase of their need to watch them(movies).
1 voteWould you please clarify what you’re asking for? Are you asking for retina support for our images? Or, tagging movies with blu-ray?
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Would be MUCH BETTER If i could rate "actors"
Wish i could rate actors.. There're some movies I'll never watch if there's some actor I dislike in it. I hate poor acting =\
8 votesThanks for the feedback!
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Why this project doesn't have a Github?
It would be great if exists any open repository with commiters and contributors and people could implement more interesting features together?
14 votesIt’s a cool idea, and worth further consideration. However, it is currently unlikely to happen given MovieLens’s utility as a research platform for our graduate students.
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Filter by Length / Duration
Add a Length / Duration filter. Sometimes you have just a short amount of time and want to see something that fits that window. Other times, you are in the mood to see a 3 hour behemoth . Since the informations is already there, it shouldn't be diffcult to implement.
62 votesThanks for the idea – yes, we do have the information to add that filter, good to know that there’s a use case!
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Quotes!
Add quotes to the movies, then it would be a great place to centralize all cinema things for everyone.
1 voteFun idea, thanks.
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List
Let us create personalized list! they are so much fun, and get people in conversations!
4 votesThanks for the idea!
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Stop recommending very old movies when I clearly do not watch/rate them.
Every time I try to come back and use the site I'm always driven away by the need to hide pages and pages of old movie recommendations.
13 votesThanks for the feedback. We’re working on this.
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Privacy support
You could for example apply a simple data mining privacy preserving approach to your database ratings to a small extend (e.g 10%).
This might bring lower accuracy. However users mights give more ratings freely.
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You could give the option to the users to create a trust (maybe a distrust also) network of users, such the one found in epinions
By creating a trust network perhaps the accuracy can become better, you could have more diverse recommendations and solve the cold start problem in some extend.
Happy to join and help in any way possible!
1 voteCool idea!
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Separate playlists?
I have different expectations for an action movie than I do for a drama. Sometimes I am in the mood for something different than I am normally looking for.
Is it possible to create separate playlists? I want at least three playlists, one for movies that will make me think, one for movies that will make me feel, and one for mindless fun.
I think that Pandora handles this well. I generally like singer/songwriter mellow stuff (Sarah McLachlan, Dar Williams, The Hush Sound, Leonard Cohen), but I also like a little bit of metal (Sabaton, Nightwish). Putting them on a…
12 votesGreat idea. We’ve been pondering “mood-based recommendations” for a while.
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Prevent addition of films where the release date is years away
Some genious added many super hero films to imdb which are not due to be released until much much later. One has a release date set for 2019!? Prevent this kind of behaviour some way. Mission Impossible 5 has also already been on the site for many months yet no action has been taken (at least I flagged it when it was added). People are actually rating these too which distorts recommendations.
7 votesThanks for the info. We need to build up our movie database management tools to address problems like this. Coming!
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Matching Users Directly to Other Users
To complement the present system could we match users to each other directly. The idea is this, instead of predicting the ratings directly, what you would do is use a best match function of your own ratings with those of another user – you are essentially trying to find your other self. The key advantage of this method is possibly finding hidden gems – a lot of the time my predicted films are ones I know about already.
One problem with ratings is that some people’s ratings are generally cardinally higher than others which could skew this somewhat, as could…
1 voteHi Physiocrat,
The algorithm that you describe is actually the grandfather of recommendation algorithms, known as “user-user collaborative filtering”. This algorithm has lots of nice properties, especially because it is such an intuitive and interesting approach to the problem of finding new content, but its performance characteristics make it unsuitable for systems like movielens.
Your interface ideas that build on the intuition are really interesting, and there are some fun projects in there (especially combining user-user with tag information).
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prediction distribution of all unseen movies
It would be good to have the disribution on predicitions for all unseen movies. I was thinking how many movies are recommended to me with score 4.5 or 4 for example.
You guys are awesome!
Mahdi1 voteCool idea!
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New DVD and/or streaming releases
Need a filter to differentiate new DVD and/or stream releases from new theater releases
7 votesWe would love to do this, too. We are still considering our options, since it’s not totally clear how to get this data.
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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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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 ?
1 voteCool idea!
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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 !1 voteThanks for the idea. Letterboxd also has this feature. I think lots of folks would like this.
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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.
1 voteThanks 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.
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