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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short movie indicator
there must be a sign for short movies before we click on them so that we don't have to lose time. I am not a fan of short movies
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https://www.tuckerlfitzgerald.com/app-redesign
An in-depth review from a UX designer
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User experience
The recommendation engine is great. Not the user experience though. It sucks. I am a product manager, I can help you improve the experience.
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Change in the lookup algorythm
I have look up problems for some of the movie titles that I would like to look up. Basically, if I want to find a movie named RUN, I put run in the search box and I get about 100 movies that all have the word 'run' in their title. How about a way to tell the search engine that I don't want it to look for my search work in a 'contains' query, but that I only want to see movies that are only named "Run" that should shorten the list to only 3 or 4 movies. If this…
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favourite year
in 'about your ratings' there's no option to see your favourite year (according to your ratings)
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Update the search function so titles do not have to be exact.
Ex: Batman vs. Superman doesn't work. Batman V Superman does...
If you search Batman vs. Superman, it should come up with the closest matching titles first that contain those three words.
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why my favorite movies (5 stars) have <4 star predicted
Basically my favorite movies (5 stars) have <4 star predicted, being them only 2, these two alone should be the pinnacle of my recommendations. By that the algorithm should automatically point the predicted rate to the maximum. In fact, most of the other film rating predictions on my list are accurate enough, with a margin of error, but those two 5 stars movies are very poorly predicted by the algorithm. Giving more importance to those 5 stars movies could have a noticeable effect in the general prediction and thus the recommendation system.
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Similar Movies, more search tools
When viewing similar movies provide more search tools, as seen elsewhere on the site. Specifically, the tool I would use the most is an option to show only unrated movies.
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Improve the "Watch Trailer" feature.
Some movies seem to point to incorrect videos instead of the actual trailer when clicking "Watch Trailer", for example a few I found today:
https://movielens.org/movies/1945
https://movielens.org/movies/1090
https://movielens.org/movies/163645
https://movielens.org/movies/142488
https://movielens.org/movies/26131I'm not sure how it's being done. Though using YouTubes API query endpoint to search for movie name + " trailer" and using the first result shouldn't cause this issue no?
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When rating movies, show us similar movies we’ve rated and our scores so our ratings are gauged better and stay more accurate
When rating a movie, it would be great to see what we rated something similar. For example if we think movie A was pretty amazing but when we go to rate it we noticed we liked Movie B better, we would give movie A a slightly lower.
This would piggy back with ideas that we can be recommended movies that have high correlation with other certain users that have rated the same movies a super high score.
For example, if person A & person B gave Thriller movies 1 and 2 five stars but person B hasn’t seen movie 3.…
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Rate separate factors
I often face a dilemma because I find many terrible movies enjoyable to watch. I feel conflicted about rating a bad quality movie higher than a good quality movie, although I do it anyway. If I could rate movie quality and enjoyability separately, that would solve it for me.
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Improve site performance
I started using movielens a lot since i dicosvered it, but both in windows 10 (with firefox) and on a web browser in my android phone i find the site slow to load and to navigate around sections. it's really noticeable on phone devices.
Thank you for your time and effort.
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What Does a Title Highlighted in Yellow Mean?
When I'm browsing suggestions, some of the movie's title cards will have a yellow background, while the others are just white. I couldn't find an explanation as to why?
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short movies
short movies should be excluded from the site. I do not want to search for movies for hours and end up watching 5 minute movies.
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filter for stars (predicted as well as avg user ratings)
Currently, there seems to be a filter for "number of ratings". A new filter should be added which can be used to filter the movies on the basis of predicted stars for me - >4.1 stars.
One more filter should be added to filter movies on the basis of avg user reviews - >4 stars
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Fix UserVoice feedback links
Your feedback links are broken
It keeps asking to login with the magic link even when already logged in and the feedback submission returns in error1 vote -
Integration with streaming services/devices
Talk to the main streaming services or streaming interface developers in the world and try to integrate your personalized recommendation into the streaming GUI to make it easier to choose content to stream
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Streaming or purchase sources
It would be great to have streaming sources identified in each movie's listing, for example, hyperlinked to Amazon Prime, Netflix, etc. where available. (Country specific would be ideal -- I'm in Canada and streaming options here are different than in the US.) I'm sure you could work out associate revenue when links are followed. It would save us time looking them up.
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