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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Stop having my session expire.
I'll use a search feature or sort by suggestions for me and because my session expires I lose my place and have to start over or use a different search method. This is frustrating because even if I try to go back the list is still different and not in the same order.
2 votesThis particular issue should be fixed now. Thanks for the feedback!
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How about a smaller font?
The charming of old movielens is the simplicity, and how we can absorb the information. This new format i have to scroll a lot to get the information I've searching for. I think the idea is clean the page, but everything seems bigger than we need.
1 voteWe released two new widgets (smaller tile, list) to address this issue. Thanks for the feedback!
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Provide more detail on recommendation engines used for A and B lists in survey
Are they both item-item based? what are the differences? How can we choose between them?
A blog post would be nice.
3 votesDetails published by Ekstrand et al in recsys 2014, though I cannot say which experimental condition you were in.
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2645710.2645737
The system now describes “the wizard” and “the warrior” in the user interface.
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Be able to search without opening menu
Pretty self explanatory. Looks like there's plenty of room for a search bar, and possibly a few more shortcuts, without clicking the little "open menu" button.
7 votesWe reorganized the search a bit so that it is easier to reach. We also added a keyboard shortcut – you can type “/” to open the search box any time.
(update)
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Predictive ratings below the Similar Films listed on a film's page
As well as the ability to sort similar films by highest ratings. After watching a film I liked, I often scanned the old movielens for films with high predictive ratings in the Similar section
7 votesThanks for the feedback!
You can sort by highest rating (click the pull-down on the right side of search pages).
We now have predictions below similar movies.
See also: http://movielens.uservoice.com/forums/238501-general/suggestions/5745134-keep-the-movie-tuner
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Bootstrap my ratings from IMDb
IMDb has an rss feed and a csv export for user's movie ratings.
It would be great to use this to populate my ratings here, as it's frustrating to do it in several places, and this should allow you to provide users with much better recommendations when joining.
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It seems like the number of genres has decreased. Is that true? Really would miss a "Family" genre.
More genres
1 voteThanks for the feedback. The number of genres has not decreased, we’re just doing a lousy job of linking to them right now. MovieLens now puts a link to “all genres” in the menu.
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Can there be multiple screenshots beside the title instead of one giant one?
Its easy to get the wrong impression about a movie if there is literally only one image to go by.
1 voteThere are multiple images for the more popular movies. Click the arrows on the left and right to switch between them. Or, if you’re on a phone or tablet, swipe left and right.
This is good feedback, though, thanks. Possibly, we need to make the navigational icons more visually prominent.
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Why don't the individual stars mean anything anymore?
I actually really liked that in the top right it explained that 5 stars meant "must see" and 1 star meant "awful". PLEASE DO NOT GET RID OF THIS.
164 votesA version of this feature has been released with the latest movielens update. This shows up as a small tool-tip if you hover over the rating interface.
Interested to hear what people think of this version of this feature.
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Please put movie trailer directly under plot description
Why do I have to scroll past similar movies first?
9 votesThanks for the feedback. In the just-released version 4.0.4 the trailers are just below the plot summary.
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2 votes
Version 4.0.4, just released, eliminates this redundancy, I think.
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Keep the "about your ratings" feature
Do not remove "About your Ratings" section, please! It's so interesting to see those statistics... Also, at the moment the new version has very few genres...
96 votesReleased!
https://beta.movielens.org/about-your-ratings
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Cool, thanks for the feedback! “About your ratings” was the first feature that I wrote as movielens developer, many years ago :) -
RSS feed for the MovieLens blog
Please allow me to read the new MovieLens blog via RSS.
1 voteHere’s the link: https://beta.movielens.org/info/rss.xml
Thanks for the feedback – I added a meta tag to help browsers find the feed.
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Predictive search
when searching, it would be cool to have predictive text like google does
6 votesGreat feedback, thanks! We include this in release 4.0.4.
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Adding new titles
This is a question/suggestion...before, it was up to the community to add new titles, will that still be applicable? How will this work?
12 votesReleased in 4.0.5. We are still working on tools for editing movies.
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Allow me to create multiple lists of movies
Allow me to search and compare several films at the same time. When I am confronting the programme of a film festival full with unknown movies, I'd like to add all the titles in the same place and then see a list sorted by the predicted score. Thus, I would be able to choose which films to watch.
40 votesA version of this has been added to MovieLens. Find the "add to list" button either in the "..." menu on any of the "movie cards", or the "add to list" button on the movie detail page and then you can create a list or add movies to those lists. You can view all your lists from the menu available on the top-left of the page.
Lists can be private (available only to you) or public (available to you and other movielens users with the link)
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Can we keep a list and number of the movies we've seen?
This is the main reason I've stuck with MovieLens over other recommendation sites. I love having a reference guide of what I've seen that I can easily refer to.
25 votesReleased in 4.0.5!
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"not interested" option; smaller posters; keep recommendation slider
Making a "not interested" option for movies you'll never watch to eliminate them from searches would be helpful. Smaller posters in the Beta with the titles underneath them and more per page (I personally like the posters there, but they seem too large). The thing I like most about the original is the recommendation slider on each movie page, so please keep that!
29 votesThanks for the feedback! We have a “not interested” option in the ratings widget now. We also have smaller posters now.
For your third idea, please add votes to this: http://movielens.uservoice.com/forums/238501-general/suggestions/5745134-keep-the-movie-tuner (planned)
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I found the two lists of 10 movies to compare impossible to rate as I had only heard of four movies on the lists and had seen none.
Perhaps the lists could be more commonly seen movies or could include short blubs so we can see if we were interested in them. The feedback I provided based on this list useless as I had so little knowledge of them.
1 voteThanks for the feedback. Sorry you missed it, the movies in the list were clickable, which opens up a window with movie plot summaries and trailers.
Some of the recommendation technologies that we are testing appear to skew towards “obscure” movie recommendations. That’s interesting to us, sorry the lists were hard for you to evaluate!
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Does our interaction affect the same database as the old site?
Where should I rate new films? In the old site, the new one, both?
1 voteIt’s your choice. Your ratings will be stored in the same place whether you use the new interface or the old one.
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