where is your famous movie calculator? tags? why genres?
1) movie calc was the incredible feature, distinguishing you from any other engine. i cannot find it now. removing it would be very strange turn; it was uber useful and extra fun to use.
2) don't really like new mobilish design - much more limited and less informative.
3) never supposed genres to be useful. most interesting stuff cannot be categorised; it's some specific and subtle set of features (or tags, as you put it) which allowed to specify exactly what one looks for.
now your site looks like just an average movie database. hopefully it will allow yet to find interesting stuff, but it's not obvious at all now how to search for it.
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for me it was 4 things that made movielens special ::
- clever tagging,
- looong lists of similar films on the movie details pages allowing to skip through those i've seen and to find new titles,
- compact and concentrated design allowing to get the whole idea from one screen,
- incredibly adequate "guessing" system proposing really similar movies (not just mechanically genre'd like imdb).
would love to see all this in new movielens as well. -
Do you have other feedback, beyond putting the tagging stuff back, that would help us avoid being "an average movie database"?
Thanks for your feedback!