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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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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Allow users to suggest 'similar movies'
I just watched Sion Sono's 'The Whispering Star', for which MovieLens currently suggests no similarities. I've added some tags myself but no-one else has yet. The immediate film I'd think of it being similar to is David Lynch's 'The Straight Story'. Looking at the tags for that film, though, it seems unlikely the two films would be paired up by system tags alone because other than 'slow', the majority of the 'Straight Story' tags- eg. 'brothers', 'road trip', 'David Lynch'- will have nothing in common with the ones for 'Whispering Star'. Perhaps a 'Community Recommends' thing could help pair disparate…
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Ignore caps
Have you thought about ignoring capital letters in tags? There's tags like "medieval" and "Medieval". This merge would help show more accurate tag results, especially for less popular films with this issue.
1 voteThis is something we want to do (in fact I would say half our code does ignore capitalization), so I would call it a bug that the other half doesn’t!)
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API to notify on new ratings
It would be nice to have an API where the user could register to get a request when some events occur, like when the user rates a movie.
With that we could integrate with services like IFTTT to trigger some actions upon rating like sharing with friends, add to other services, etc.1 vote -
Allow a page for "rare movies" "unusual dislikes" "unusual likes"
These used to be links to see all result but now it just shows you 5 or so and you can't see the others
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Allow sorting by rating
why on earth isn't this a thing? i want to see my wishlist by the highest rated first, but i can't
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Recomendations
Whatever your system is it isn't very good. I rated a movie a 1 star and you recommend the sequel? Why would i want to watch the sequel to a movie I hated? You need a complete overall over your system clearly.
1 voteWhile we won’t be overhauling our recommendation algorithm, we do hope to review the tuning of their parameters. Until them, please see the comment for advice on how your personal recommendations might be improved.
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Make movies sortable by length
Pretty self-explanatory. It would be nice to have movie length as an option under filters as well.
1 voteInteresting idea. I think that should be pretty do-able.
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list of additions you've made
a new page where you can keep track of the movies you have added
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new way to sort films
honestly i dont know how thats not a feature yet - to have the ability to sort movies we havent watched yet by the rating the site predicts because the wizard prediction system is pretty good
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Mobile site issues
The mobile site on chrome for iOS doesn’t work very well. I can’t advance to the next page of movie titles. Can there please be a setting to turn off artwork and see movies in list view?
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Maybe a better search function
Was searching for the Movie “A Sun”. Could not find it. So I added a link from IMDb. Then “it” says the movie was already there. With a filter search I could find the movie. Not the most ideal way
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