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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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  1. Display list of movies for rating statistic

    In the About your ratings, it shows graphs of movies based on year, rareness, etc. But it only gives the number, whereas I don't know which of my movies qualifies as "rare" or "common" and I'm also curious to see why I have a spike in movies from 1985-1990

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  2. Ajax based refresh button and automatic refresh

    I'm new to Movielens and I find it annoying to reload the whole page once I've rated already-watched movies in the recommendations, (which actually are more than 50-60% of the recommendations). It'd be great to have an ajax based refresh button to reload new recommendations. Moreover, an automatic refresh system would be great, once the system detects a certain number of rating to recommended movies.

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  3. Integration of tags and wish list

    An alternative to the idea of allowing users to create their own lists.

    I know you can create your own tags and view all of the tags you've created, but I feel like it makes more sense to combine this feature with your Wishlist. My vision is that there would be some sort of side bar including your Wishlist, followed by all of your tags (and perhaps the option to sort these tags in an order of your choosing).

    That way you could have tags such as "Wishlist--Classics", "Wishlist--Top rated", "Wishlist--Foreign films", "Recommendations from Emi", "Favorite films", "Films for long…

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  4. Directors, Writers, Cast...

    You've got "directors" and "cast", much like the old Movielens, how about listing the writers too?

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  5. Expand the statistics Movielens provides

    Can Movielens, based on my ratings, provide an estimate of my preference for the work of particular directors, screenwriters, and actors?

    Also, it would be great to see an estimate of my preference for different combinations (e.g., directors x screen writers, or directors x actors).

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  6. Option to get Top picks based on TARGET mood

    Since there was a question in the survey about moods, I expect it to be a parameter in the picking of movies.
    Let me explain TARGET mood: The mood I want to be, not the mood I am now. For example "happy" as target mood is more accurate for picking movies than "depressed" as current mood. Because a "depressed" user might want different picks, one might want to cheer up, other might want to sulk in self-pity.

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  7. add friends (via social media)

    functionalities:

    see their statistics (as we can see our own which is nice!)
    make recommendations to one of them or a group of people, write them 'personal reviews' (PR)

    ...

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  8. Movies grid

    I see that you are using a fluid interface, but in my screen I am seeing 24 films in a grid of 5x5, leaving thus an empty position at the end.
    I don't know what you can do and I see that 24 is a very divisible number, but there is this error case.

    2 votes
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  9. Written by...

    On a film's page the right side details director, cast and release date but I would love to also see the writer.

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  10. Include more women on your team - lessen the male bias. Don't use stereotypical terms like "chick flicks" to trivialize types of movies

    "Chick flicks" as a category? Inherent negative bias makes it appear that the movies are automatically shallow. I find the terminology patronizing.

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    under review  ·  Max Harper responded

    I understand and fundamentally agree with your concern. However, tags are contributed by the community, not our team. We currently do not have any mechanism or policy for censoring tags. Suggestions?

    FYI, you can flag tags as “bad”, which will make them less likely to show up to subsequent users.

  11. More direct tag exposure

    Let user see tag cluster associated with their tuner, recommender.

    Have interface to let user define and save tag clusters for searching.

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  12. Make the UI mouse friendly and keyboard friendly

    Right now, in the main page, you cannot scroll horizontally with the mouse.
    Before releasing a new version you should check that the UI can be operated by keyboard only and by mouse only.

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  13. 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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  14. Next page button

    It would be nice to have next page buttons at top and bottom of the page, and for the page to refresh so that you are at the top instead of needing to scroll to the top manually.

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  15. Change criteria for a 'rare' movie

    The criteria for a rare film on Movielens have some very weird results sometimes. For example, my list for the rarest movies I have rated lists films like 'Drinking Buddies' or 'Romantics Anonymous' alongside 'Now You See Me' or 'Snow White and the Huntsman'.
    Now, I doubt that anyone would consider movies that make more than 300 Mio. as rare. I assume this is due to a certain selection bias, because movielens users are naturally more interested in rare movies than the general population.
    I think this problem could be fixed very easily if you use the number of imdb…

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  16. Recollecting memory, improve film recognition

    Often I do not intentionally watch a movie. I just come across on telly (HBO, Film1, or just any other) I look how far in it is and if acceptable (20-30 mins) continue watching.

    The current overview of thumbnails is alright but what do i do here? What is the task in my mind? Rating movies! And for rating movies, I think:
    - the amount of movies is good, but
    - the thumbnails are too small
    - would be nice to see move thumbnails of the same move when hovering over
    - would be nice to have "infinity" page instead…

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  17. Keep the sliders (similar movies)

    I found the sliders really helpful to find new movies based on what I had seen.

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  18. Find streaming

    Link to canistream.it or other way to add movies to you queue

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  19. Customize row categories

    In the home page, let the user choose the row categories/filters. Right now you show "Top Picks" "Higest rated recent releases" and "Most rated recent releases".
    I would like, at least, to have more kind of rows availabe (I guess there will be since this is only a preview) and to be able to choose (or hide/show) the ones that interest me. More advanced option/ or in the future, also to set(& name) my own search filters to define rows.

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  20. Smaller/no images for mobile users

    I use movielens on my Nexus 4 phone. The reliance on the huge movie poster idiom makes the site mostly unusable on my phone. It is an extremely inefficient use of space. I have to scroll like crazy to digest even a small but of information. I would much prefer compact grid for results like the old site.

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