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.
108 results found
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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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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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Version 4.0.4, just released, eliminates this redundancy, I think.
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Ha ha, thanks for the positive feedback. We have a few big missing features to build before we can make this the new site, but it’s going to happen this summer!
update: done!
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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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Where's the big counter?
"You've rated 1387 movies." Missing this direly from the new beta thingy, which is really-really nice, by the way.
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Allow greater control of profile
I recently switched email accounts, yet I can't change that on the site
1 voteDone!
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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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Please keep movie icons
Please keep pictures of each movie because it makes it a lot easier when searching and ratings movies.
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Make it easier to see how many movies I've rated (was: total film ratings tally)
Just wondering if there's a way to tell how any films you've rated as I can't seem t find that number on the new site.
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Allow me to hide recommended films
If there's a film recommended for me and I don't like it, I should be able to hide it and that should influence what else is recommended for me.
1 voteThe “hide this” functionality is available in the ratings widget. Click the three bars to the left of the stars and select “hide this”.
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Search by actor/actress/director
So I often am looking for an actor's body of work and, unless I'm missing out on something vital, I have to think of a film they have been in, search for that film first and then click on the actor's name to see their films. I would like to be able to just search for an actor or actress.
The same goes for directors.1 vote -
Add fullscreen button to trailer
How come this is missing? I need to click the 'Youtube' button first to get fullscreen...
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Click actors and directors and be taken to all there other movies
This was one of my favourite things about the old movielens and it would be a shame if that went.
I think the site looks fantastic and is really easy to use1 voteThanks for the feedback. This was released in June.
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Why I use
The reason I use Movielens is so I can track what movies I've seen and give them MY rating along with creating a 'wish list'. (I also use these same functions for book on Goodreads.)
If I can't do this then there's really no reason for me to use your site, I can go to IMDB to see what movies are out and check suggestions. And find many lists online of movies to watch.1 voteThanks for the feedback! We do have a wishlist in the preview version, but it is too hard to find in the menus. We will fix this in the next release, and make sure it’s easy to use moving forward.
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add moviewish list
IMDB has a function that when you want to watch some movies, you can press a button of "+ movie list". Next time when the users want to watch movie, then they can choose from the movie list.
1 voteThanks for the feedback! We have a wishlist feature.
I think we’re hearing that we need to make the wishlist interface more prominent/obvious. We will try to do that.
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Where did my wish list go?
The wish list is one of the best features. Where did it go?
1 voteClick on your username in the top right, it’s one of the links under there.
Probably one of those links we should also have in the “main” menu on the left.
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Feature a robust search engine
The search engine is the most important part of the front page.
1 voteNot sure if we’re “robust” or not, but we’ve added a bunch of search features plus a pretty fast autocomplete on the search box.
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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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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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