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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. API to notify on new ratings

    It would be nice to have an API where the user could register to get a request when some events occur, like when the user rates a movie.
    With that we could integrate with services like IFTTT to trigger some actions upon rating like sharing with friends, add to other services, etc.

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  2. Ignore caps

    Have you thought about ignoring capital letters in tags? There's tags like "medieval" and "Medieval". This merge would help show more accurate tag results, especially for less popular films with this issue.

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  3. Streaming or purchase sources

    It would be great to have streaming sources identified in each movie's listing, for example, hyperlinked to Amazon Prime, Netflix, etc. where available. (Country specific would be ideal -- I'm in Canada and streaming options here are different than in the US.) I'm sure you could work out associate revenue when links are followed. It would save us time looking them up.

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  4. Integration with streaming services/devices

    Talk to the main streaming services or streaming interface developers in the world and try to integrate your personalized recommendation into the streaming GUI to make it easier to choose content to stream

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  5. Fix UserVoice feedback links

    Your feedback links are broken
    It keeps asking to login with the magic link even when already logged in and the feedback submission returns in error

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  6. What Does a Title Highlighted in Yellow Mean?

    When I'm browsing suggestions, some of the movie's title cards will have a yellow background, while the others are just white. I couldn't find an explanation as to why?

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  7. Improve site performance

    I started using movielens a lot since i dicosvered it, but both in windows 10 (with firefox) and on a web browser in my android phone i find the site slow to load and to navigate around sections. it's really noticeable on phone devices.

    Thank you for your time and effort.

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  8. Improve the "Watch Trailer" feature.

    Some movies seem to point to incorrect videos instead of the actual trailer when clicking "Watch Trailer", for example a few I found today:

    https://movielens.org/movies/1945
    https://movielens.org/movies/1090
    https://movielens.org/movies/163645
    https://movielens.org/movies/142488
    https://movielens.org/movies/26131

    I'm not sure how it's being done. Though using YouTubes API query endpoint to search for movie name + " trailer" and using the first result shouldn't cause this issue no?

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  10. 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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  11. why my favorite movies (5 stars) have <4 star predicted

    Basically my favorite movies (5 stars) have <4 star predicted, being them only 2, these two alone should be the pinnacle of my recommendations. By that the algorithm should automatically point the predicted rate to the maximum. In fact, most of the other film rating predictions on my list are accurate enough, with a margin of error, but those two 5 stars movies are very poorly predicted by the algorithm. Giving more importance to those 5 stars movies could have a noticeable effect in the general prediction and thus the recommendation system.

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  12. favourite year

    in 'about your ratings' there's no option to see your favourite year (according to your ratings)

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  13. Change in the lookup algorythm

    I have look up problems for some of the movie titles that I would like to look up. Basically, if I want to find a movie named RUN, I put run in the search box and I get about 100 movies that all have the word 'run' in their title. How about a way to tell the search engine that I don't want it to look for my search work in a 'contains' query, but that I only want to see movies that are only named "Run" that should shorten the list to only 3 or 4 movies. If this…

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  14. User experience

    The recommendation engine is great. Not the user experience though. It sucks. I am a product manager, I can help you improve the experience.

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  15. https://www.tuckerlfitzgerald.com/app-redesign

    An in-depth review from a UX designer

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  16. short movie indicator

    there must be a sign for short movies before we click on them so that we don't have to lose time. I am not a fan of short movies

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  18. Browse by decade

    Would be nice to be able to browse movies from certain decades.

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  19. More suggested categories

    e.g. you liked X director, here's more from them, or you liked this genre, here's some more, or this actor, here's some obscure/popular movies you might like, classics/recent, etc, with the option to hide that suggestion category.

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  20. option to not see documentaries/specials

    Once I switched to the Wizard recommender, I started seeing lots of documentaries and comedy specials. I'd like to continue only seeing movies as well as only have movies effect my predictions.

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