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mikedavis started following the idea "My ideias for the next version of the site" in I Heart Movies.

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mikedavis replied on July 02, 2008 14:27 to the problem "Follow attempt failed with "Something went wrong!"" in Twitter:

Starting sometime late yesterday, I have not been able to follow anyone. Any attempt I make to do it pops up the "Something is technically wrong" message. I've tried logging out and then back in and following and still have no luck.

Any idea on the problem?

mikedavis set one of mikedavis' replies as an official response to "IHM avatar resizing problem" in I Heart Movies

mikedavis set one of mikedavis' replies as an official response to "IHM avatar resizing problem" in I Heart Movies

mikedavis replied on June 26, 2008 18:27 to the problem "IHM avatar resizing problem" in I Heart Movies:

Radchick,

Our next project is to fix the avatar uploader and some of the bugs associated with it. I apologize for the inconvenience. Until then, you can choose a larger image (and hold shift while cropping it to be what you want) or keep the premade that you've chosen. I'll update this post when the cropper is fixed.

Thanks,
Mike

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mikedavis replied on June 26, 2008 18:23 to the problem "IMH invite link leads to empty directory" in I Heart Movies:

Radchick,

To invite friends, go to the "Dashboard" and use the "Invite Friends" widget. I'll remove the link to the empty directory.

Thanks,
Mike

mikedavis replied on June 25, 2008 04:54 to the question "Why don't some films have plots?" in I Heart Movies:

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A comment on the idea "FriendFeed support!" in I Heart Movies:

Jigar,

Are you wanting something that shows the date you watched a movie? Like when you mark it as "watched" on a certain date via IHM? If so, the feed will do that. If not, I don't know if I know what you're looking for in addition to what's already included on the feed.

As far as posting to FriendFeed, I'll looks into it.

Thanks. – mikedavis, on June 24, 2008 17:51

mikedavis replied on June 24, 2008 17:12 to the idea "FriendFeed support!" in I Heart Movies:

Jigar,

We've already got an rss feed for each user setup that updates whenever you've rated a film. You can use that and have it imported into FriendFeed for people to follow your activity on here.

To see your rss feed, go to your profile page and click the "RSS" tab. Example ( http://www.iheartmovies.org/user/Mike... ).

As far as official FriendFeed support, I think that's something they have to build in as opposed to us. We'd be more than happy to provide it to them if they're interested though ;).

Thanks for your post.

mikedavis started following the idea "FriendFeed support!" in I Heart Movies.

mikedavis marked one of aronf13's replies in I Heart Movies as useful. aronf13 replied to the discussion "IHM feature requests".

mikedavis marked one of aronf13's replies in I Heart Movies as useful. aronf13 replied to the discussion "IHM feature requests".

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mikedavis set one of mikedavis' replies as an official response to "IHM feature requests" in I Heart Movies

mikedavis replied on March 20, 2008 20:55 to the discussion "IHM feature requests" in I Heart Movies:

Aronf13,

It's something we'll have to consider so that we make sure it's done in the best and most accurate way possible. A possible solution may be to have the search submission engine allow users to submit all the data they know on a film to speed up the addition into the system. We could have them enter a title, year, runtime, mpaa rating, etc. We can even show some search results for different covers that match the title they entered based on an Amazon search (we actually do this now to get our covers entered in and it's pretty slick). Regardless of the way we do it, it could allow the users to take on more of the load in entering a film and leave us only with a smaller portion therefore effectively reducing the amount of time it takes to enter in a film or tv show.

While the ideas would all have to be thought out more to avoid possible problems, this would be one of the quicker solutions that comes to mind.

Glad you're enjoying the site and if you find anything else you'd like to see on it or you run into a problem, feel free to holler.

-Mike

mikedavis replied on March 20, 2008 20:17 to the discussion "IHM feature requests" in I Heart Movies:

Aronf13,

We agree 100% on the addition of some kind of ability to allow users to add data to the site. It's both a lot more logical and speedy (as far as data entry goes) to split the load amongst many a users. Unfortunately, the pieces of data we've tried to allow users to edit or create directly haven't been all too used. Whether it's our fault for not directly advertising them better or making them intuitive or not, I don't know, but things like Actor/Director biographies and plots are generally (and this is speaking for the most part, not a blanket statement applying to everyone) unused by all but a few select people (most of whom are admins to the site).

So, while it would make more logical sense to add the ability, we question whether the time taken off developing features that we see an immediate need for is worth it in the long run at this point in time.

So, to answer the question in a shorter fashion: we're all for the idea, just don't know if now would be the right time to develop it.

As far as the forums, those are definitely on the agenda in the next few projects. Currently, we're beefing up the user collection section to make it faster and more intuitive. After that's completed we'll be rolling out a series of updates including forums, a new homepage design and some other simple tweaks we've got in the works.

Thanks so much for your comments and suggestions and I'm all for hearing any more you have.

-Mike

mikedavis started a conversation in I Heart Movies on March 12, 2008 20:01:

IHM feature requests

What are some features you'd like added to IHM? We've heard from people individually and have many ideas already, but what's your big idea that you'd like us to add? What do you think could make us all around better for you?