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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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…1 vote -
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.1 vote -
Offer a basic rating query for a specific movie
A query service for a specific movie would allow to show the predicted/rated rating of a movie on Netflix, alongside with IMDB,and rotten tomatoes (which can be queried for their ratings)
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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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change colours
I find the pale-ish blue against the white combined with the spacing between rows (with the ratings in blue) for the titles too hard to read.
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Make link to IMDB re-use browser tab
I think that the old site behaved as follows: if you had already used a link to IMDB from ML, and did not close the resulting browser tab, clicking on a subsequent IMDB link from ML would re-use that tab. New UI creates a new browser tab for every IMDB link clicked. Maybe this is an IMDB issue, maybe a browser issue, maybe ML issue.
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Allow us to rate combinations of genres / tags.
For example I keep getting movies with the genres "Comedy, Romance" together which sums up the two things I most hate in a movie, comedy is good combined with other things (for argument's sake let's say action or adventure) and romance is also okay if it's a minor addition to other things, but if a movie is JUST comedy + romance I don't want to see it!
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DVD release status (was: buddies and DVD reases)
I like the interface but let's not loose functionality along the way. Buddies were great for selecting movies both me and my wife will enjoy and DVD format (= watch at home) having a small child is a basic functionality.
1 voteThanks for the feedback. We’d like to add a feature where movielens knows more about format availability for the movies in our database.
We have a separate issue (with lots of support) for bringing back the buddies feature, so I retitled the ticket to reflect your request for DVD release status.
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Set a movie as "favorite"
Hi, it would be great to be able to set a movie as favorite ones : sometimes I adore a movie, but I rate it lower than another one I don't like so much (because of the mood, etc). It would be nice to be able to flag our favorites movies - the one you would bring with you on a desert island.
This could eventually be achieved with lists (https://movielens.uservoice.com/forums/238501-general/suggestions/5533426-can-we-keep-a-list-and-number-of-the-movies-we-ve), but an heart icon that you click next to the stars (or something like that) would be even more nice. (like on senscritique.com)
thanks !1 voteThanks for the idea. Letterboxd also has this feature. I think lots of folks would like this.
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ratings analysis : chart to see which are your "favorite" years.
After having seen the "release years of your rated movies" chart,
I was thinking about how would look a chart that analyze which are our "favorite" movie years, based on the movie ratings.
For a fan of sci-fi / horror, for example, it would be the 80's.
For a fan of superheroes, there would be a peak those years, etc.How cool would that be ?
1 voteCool idea!
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prediction distribution of all unseen movies
It would be good to have the disribution on predicitions for all unseen movies. I was thinking how many movies are recommended to me with score 4.5 or 4 for example.
You guys are awesome!
Mahdi1 voteCool idea!
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Matching Users Directly to Other Users
To complement the present system could we match users to each other directly. The idea is this, instead of predicting the ratings directly, what you would do is use a best match function of your own ratings with those of another user – you are essentially trying to find your other self. The key advantage of this method is possibly finding hidden gems – a lot of the time my predicted films are ones I know about already.
One problem with ratings is that some people’s ratings are generally cardinally higher than others which could skew this somewhat, as could…
1 voteHi Physiocrat,
The algorithm that you describe is actually the grandfather of recommendation algorithms, known as “user-user collaborative filtering”. This algorithm has lots of nice properties, especially because it is such an intuitive and interesting approach to the problem of finding new content, but its performance characteristics make it unsuitable for systems like movielens.
Your interface ideas that build on the intuition are really interesting, and there are some fun projects in there (especially combining user-user with tag information).
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You could give the option to the users to create a trust (maybe a distrust also) network of users, such the one found in epinions
By creating a trust network perhaps the accuracy can become better, you could have more diverse recommendations and solve the cold start problem in some extend.
Happy to join and help in any way possible!
1 voteCool idea!
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Privacy support
You could for example apply a simple data mining privacy preserving approach to your database ratings to a small extend (e.g 10%).
This might bring lower accuracy. However users mights give more ratings freely.
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Quotes!
Add quotes to the movies, then it would be a great place to centralize all cinema things for everyone.
1 voteFun idea, thanks.
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increasing the Hd
HD as we know inreases the beauty and perfect picture to be observed by the clients (Viewers).This will help in increase of their need to watch them(movies).
1 voteWould you please clarify what you’re asking for? Are you asking for retina support for our images? Or, tagging movies with blu-ray?
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Sharable wishlist
I'd like to have some new features:
1) Sharable wishlist - just give a link to my wishlist my husband who's not registered yet so he could pick up something he'd wish to see from what I've already chosen
2) When I finally convince him to join, it would be awesome to create a recommendation list for both of us, which would take into account previous ratings of us both.
At least, it would be cool if user1 could see a wishlist or rating made for user2 but ordered by proposed ratings for user1. I believe a lot of people…1 vote -
Credit Writers
You guys need to credit writers for films. Writing is the most important component of a good film. The site should include writer credits and writers should be a search field. Tis is an ergregious oversight by your organization.
1 voteI'll see if we 1) have this information available to us from our sources of data and 2) have it currently stored for enough of the movies. I do agree it would be a nice improvement if the data is there and trustworthy.
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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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