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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MovieLens is incredible.
The prediction engine is incredibly accurate. It has been on target since I've started using it, often recommending movies I've never heard of, that I end up really liking. Bravo.
Have you thought of using the algorithm in other recommendation contexts? Or open sourcing it?
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testing
testing
1 voteSeeing the feedback item. This email is what it looks like when we change our public status for a recommendation. I can't promise that we have the staffing to follow-though on every recommendation made, but we do try to look at the new ones when we can!
~The MovieLens team!
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is the site down for maintenance?
The site hasn't been working at all for several days - I verified it's not just me with a downforeveryoneorjustme.com search. Is the site coming back?? I really hope so. If not, please make some way for users to export their data once more before it's gone for good.
If it is coming back and this was a planned shutdown, please post that somewhere! Preferably in advance of the shutdown. An email to all users would be great.
1 voteYes it's down. No it's not down for good.
If we ever shut down we'll make sure to have data exports available in some form I'm sure.
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Please make your surveys intelligent
I did not complete your survey of 10 movies I've not seen because what on earth is the point? "How do you think you would rate these movies"? Why? WHY are you asking this? You are genuinely asking us to flip a coin. How on earth would I know how I would rate movies I've never even heard of? What could possibly be the point of you asking this. AND, assuming I completed the survey, what could possibly be the end goal of you asking me to randomly rate films I've never heard of?
1 voteHowdy, I think you discussed this with our research team over email as well. If that wasn’t you please reach out over email and we can discuss this there in more detail.
The short version is that this is a carefully designed experiment which seeks to answer a specific question — answering that question may involve asking about movies which we don’t specifically know if you’ve seen. We understand that can be frustrating, but it is the best way to learn what we’re trying to learn here. I can’t say more here, the concern is that explaining that goal might change your behavior and invalidate the results of the study. We’re happy to discuss this goal more either after the experiment, or if you leave the experiment.
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Allow filtering by MPAA ratings
MPAA ratings are a key discrimination criteria in determining if I will watch a movie or not. I’d like the ability to filter out rated R, or NC-17 films. This option would greatly enhance the utility of this site for me
1 voteSee the comment I left for instructions on using this feature.
Please email us if there is any issue with this feature (of if there’s trouble finding it)
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Is it possibile a massive insert of movie evaluations by uploading a .csv?
I have a personal movie evaluation list. I can export it into a .csv file. How can I upload it in order to add my evaluations to movielens?
I would like to avoid to myself the handmade 1-by-1 evaluation...thank you
3 votesThis is indeed possible! In your user settings (found in the account drop-down on the top-right) there is a page for doing bulk import/export of ratings. I believe the format for import is designed to match the IMDB export format.
You can find that page directly at this URL: https://movielens.org/profile/settings/import-export
Let us know by email if this doesn’t work and we can look into this case in more detail (I wouldn’t want to ask you to share rating details in this public forum)
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Follow-up to wrong poster for Nothing Personal (2009)
Sorry, but TMDB (and Movielens) both have the wrong poster for the 2009 movie Nothing Personal. Both sites are displaying the Russian poster for the 2009 film Duplicity, with Julia Roberts and Clive Owen. Totally different films. IMDB has a correct poster.
1 voteShould be good now. Shoot us an email at: movielens-support@umn.edu if there’s further trouble.
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my ratings disappeared
hello, almost all ratings voted by myself are gone. I voted around 500+ movies but now it only shows around 100.
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Optimisations
The site runs extremely slow with that annoying gear circling around for eternity. If you can optimise the site to run somewhat quicker, it would be amazing! Thank you.
2 votesThis should be fixed now. Let us know if you have further issues.
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Nothing Personal (2009) has the wrong graphic
the image doesn't match the film
1 voteHowdy, we’re using the image from TMDB: https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/45806-nothing-personal While it seems to be a different poster than the US release and the IMDB poster, It does seem to be for the same movie. Sorry for the confusion.
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better server?
I love your website, but response times frequently stall out, perhaps an overloaded server?
1 voteThis should be fixed now. Let us know if you have further issues.
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Fix give feedback button
The give feedback button at the bottom of the screen opens a new window of movielens.org instead of coming here.
1 voteHowdy, I’m sorry it took us a while to notice this issue, but it has been fixed!
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Fix the rating by year graph
The average rating by year graph is set to start at year 0. If you were to input the year of the oldest movie on the platform as the minimum year value that would make the graph more interesting.
4 votesHowdy,
Sorry it took us a while to get to this issue. It turned out that some 187 movies had erroneous date data listing them as released on year 0000, this bug only triggered if you happened to rate one of those movies making it hard to figure out. But we found it and fixed it!
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Export
Please allow export of my personal ratings to CSV
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Advanced Search/Multiple Genre Search
As a lot of movies fall under more than one genre, it would be nice to be able to search more than one genre at a time. For example I'm looking for some Drama/Thriller/Crime/Romance movies, but, if I'm only able to search one of these at a time, the results are hard to sift through.
1 voteThe most recent update to movielens now has a multi-genre sesarching in the search tools. If you pick multiple genres you can limit to only movies with ALL of the genres, or get all movies with ANY of those movies.
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Are A LOT OF movies missing?
Do a lot of movies disappear from the site?
1 voteWe had an unexpected error last night, movies are back now.
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Spirit still running?
The note on the Spirit recs says that it'll quit after two months, but it's been a lot longer than that. Is the study still going?
1 voteYes, it’s still running, but you’re free to turn it off any time if you don’t like it!
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Filter by movie rating
Is there already a way to do this? My family chooses not to watch R rated films. It would be great to be able to weed those out of the suggested selections.
1 voteIn any page of search results, click “more” then select “mpaa”, and click the ones you want.
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Is there any chance for this site to be close in the next 2 years?
I just discovered this site and I think that this is the best site for making a catalog for the movies. My main question is: Is there any chance that this site won't be avalable in the next 2 years? I'm thinking about making this site my only one for that kind of thing, since I don't facebook, friends or anything to have a nice interface for making a catalog.
Thank you
1 voteThis site has operated since 1997, and it’s still going strong. It will almost certainly be around for (much) more than two years. We hope :)
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Hide wishlist movies
Make an option to hide all the movies that have been added to wishlist (same way it is with rated movies).
This way we can rate easily without having to scroll through all the movies we havent rated but added to wishlist.24 votesThis is now in MovieLens,
On any "explore page" (by default the 2d grid of movies -- like a search, or if you click the "top picks" link etc. click the "show search tools" button around the top of the page (above the grid of movies) -- this pulls up the search tools, then go to the more tools and pick the wishlist status option.
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