- “Your Reviews” are now ordered by Date and reviews on each Title sub page are ordered by Helpfulness.We will continue to update functionality in the new year, starting by bringing back the ability to sort reviews from newest to oldest/oldest to newest. We appreciate your patience as we continue to improve the overall experience.
- We have removed the Index view.
- We updated the way that reviews with spoilers are displayed.
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So how about sorting by good/bad, date, etc as before and could we possibly have:
...sort by number of reviews reviewer has made (most prolific first, etc)
...ability to set upper and lower rating limits (as is possible with titles in advanced search) e.g. choose to see only reviews between 3 and 8 stars
...include a search engine to find a word or a phrase in all reviews of a title or all reviews across IMDb (for references to an actor, another title etc)
And another thing, I understand the number of reviews per "load more" is moving upward (now 20) but could I express my disappointment at the whole "load more" system using one web page? It's great on a phone, but it's not needed om a desktop which has plenty of screen space.
This system has a major flaw, apart from not knowing where you are in the list of possibly hundreds of reviews. If you click "load more" 10 times you will be around the 200th review. If you click the back button to check some fact then click forward again, you lose the place at review no.200 and are back where you started, i.e. reviews 1-20. So 10 more scrolls and clicks to get to no. 200 again, that's if you don't miss it. That's not good at all.
So please can we get rid of the "load more" system on the website? I thought the pages were fine. I knew where I was, my forward/back buttons always took me to where I was previously.
I haven't read much about the "load more" system here, does anyone agree it ought to go back to normal pages?
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"Increase default view of reviews shown before “Load more” from 10 to 25..."You have got to be kidding. As long as you restrict viewing of reviews to the "Load More" method, your site will remain utterly useless. Lots of movies on IMDb have thousands of reviews, and unless users can access those reviews directly (e.g. by page number), no one-page-at-a-time 'sort order' will ever show more than a handful of them to human eyes. This is not rocket science - just simple logic.
Mr. Needham, you've helped destroy one of the most useful sites on the Internet, and your posts merely show your continuing abysmal lack of understanding of the damage that's been done.
Until (or unless) the site is fixed - properly fixed! - my reviews are being posted elsewhere, my movie information will be coming from elsewhere and my recommendation to others will be to look elsewhere.
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I know that it's in the past now but IMDb have literally removed all the features that I (and seemingly many others) loved about the site. The user's index of reviews, the top rated episodes page, the ability to view custom lists in 'index/list' mode and the format of the review page itself.
I for one loved how the index page for personal reviews clustered all the reviews for episodes of a certain show based on the title of said show. Now I'm missing that. I'm also missing the ability to conveniently scope out all my reviews.
Will this feature and any others return in the near future? I just cannot understand how getting rid of so many great features helps the site going forward. I know it's old news but still...
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- We are still working on re-enabling additional sorts and filters on user review pages and will have updates to release next week. To start, you will soon be able to filter out spoilers, sort by date and helpfulness score (both ascending and descending). You can get a preview of a title review page with spoilers hidden, sorted by date here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/reviews?spoiler=false&sort=date&dir=desc
- We continue to investigate isolated reports that some users are unable to submit user reviews. See the thread here: https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/blocked-by-content-security-policy
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Cannot believe this has taken you two months so far.
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And one other thing: Why the hell do I have to sign up for a third party site in order to give feedback?? Goddamn annoying.
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Now the storage of our reviews is a huge use of storage space, and I'm glad that they kept our work intact, but in doing so a lot of the features that we depended on vanished, it's going to take their programmers a while to re-create that all from scratch. But I have faith that they will do it, because we want it. But as it is the whole reviewing system is unworkable except if you are viewing them on the mobile app.
A lot of the complaints are against Amazon as well, but if you look at Amazon, they have sorting in place for reviews of products. But the problem is Amazon is Amazon and IMDb is IMDb, two different entities with completely different programming.
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Will we get the ability to have a URL for each review, some sort of permalink?
I would like to reference one particular review, and cannot assume it will always be number n on page p.
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https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/reviews-interface-improvement-idea?utm_source=notification&a...
Please vote/comment there.
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Actually I can see it in mobile Safari , I take it you are a eventually going to add more filters, correct? At least I can sort by date in my own review section, now we need alphabetical sorting .
Good, this is good you've got the mechanism in place, now you just need to get the rest of the filters created. Thanks a lot
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In any event, I look forward to additional fixes that brings the reviewer/user experience closer to what it was before. One thing that's a must is the Index view, almost can't live without that one.
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- We have added "Total Votes" to the sort option drop down on title/review pages.
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As for multiple reviews, currently you can write multiple for a single title. The 2nd won't delete the 1st.
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I've now run into a bug preventing me from accessing my preferences, but I'll investigate and start a new thread if no one has brought it up yet.
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Spoiler for next week though -- we are currently testing the sort functionality for prolific reviewers. I'll post an announcement as soon as it's available.
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So happy for the return of the prolific reviewer' sort. Though, something is bothering me..
Lately, and after the recent modifications, I have a hard time editing any of my old reviews. For instance, I edited my review about Batman Forever (1995) 3 days ago, and after 72 hours nothing happened at all. So does the time of publishing a new version become more than 72 hours ? (it used to be done immediately !), or is it a kind of temporary disorder ?
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In the case of reviews, see https://help.imdb.com/article/contrib... which explains how to use the link in the email receipt for an update on the specific processing time.
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Thanks for the update on Love/Hate. Look forward to it as it was my main sorting tool.
Can you say if there are plans to revert to pagination from infinite scroll? Infinite scrolling takes away all control and knowledge of whereabouts. Clicking a link leads off the review page, which loses its place when returned to. When there are hundreds of reviews this isn't acceptable. I know this view is shared by many.
The search box has a dropdown for Titles, TV episodes, Names, Companies, Keywords. I propose you add Reviews to the dropdown. This would allow the finding of mentions of particular films in reviews of different films, mentions of particular actors and so on. I for one would find it incredibly useful. It would probably double my IMDB screen time and significantly improve my film knowledge. Would you please consider this?
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IMDB ain't REDDIT. I just thought about something, let's make a bold proposal: totally remove the "unhelpful" button.
If you would do that, these fake accounts would have no ammunition. I believe the whole helpful/unhelpful system has become abused, just like the review system has been appropriated by troll accounts who have been posting multiple duplicate negative reviews for many popular shows. This is just a suggestion, temporarily remove the unhelpful vote. Then watch back and see if this activity stops. Because it is really pissing me off, these people who do this have no interest in the shows, it's just a troll Activity. Or maybe somebody else has a better idea of how to excise the trolls from IMDb?
PS, if anybody doesn't believe me that this is happening, try this. Write a positive review for the next episode of The X-Files and watch what happens.
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You can now sort by review rating on title/reviews and user/reviews pages (IMDb desktop and mobile web site). For example, if you go to https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111161/reviews?ref_=tt_urv you can choose the sort option "Review Rating" and see all reviews rated 10, 9, etc. You can also sort in the opposite direction and see reviews that are rated 1, 2, etc. Unrated reviews appear at the bottom.
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Note that if you have 7500+ reviews we aren't able to enable this sort for you at the present time. This is on our list of future fixes.
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But I think it would be the perfect and ultimate improvement if we could also select the viewing format, grid view with the posters or just a list without any image, I don't think it's asking much since it already exists with the ratings :)
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I really do not have the time or motivation to press 'Load More' all day long.
I actually have a job, family and other things to do. I am not one of these young people on mobile phones that IMDB values so much, the ones who are writing meaningless one line reviews for them these days.
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And there needs to be a Search format that allows us to scan through hundreds of reviews at once rather than taking four hours to do so. This new "title" sorting is totally worthless. You guys remember how it was before, that's what how we want it. What is so difficult about giving us this sorting format like it was before? It's starting to look like you should fire whoever is assembling these changes for your site and rehire whoever you used to create the site in the first place.
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Thanks for your patience and feedback as we've released Reviews features over the past three months. This will be the last of the weekly updates to this announcement thread, but please keep adding ideas for future ideas here: https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb?topic-list[settings][type]=idea I'll post new announcements on Get Satisfaction as we release new features and functionality in the future.
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Thanks for following through and putting a lot of the functionality back into the user reviews section.
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I am not much of a user of IMDB but recently I read a fascinating story about a short film that was released about a month after the Titanic sank and features an actual survivor of the tragedy. This short seems to be widely considered as lost as the studio that produced it burned down a couple years after producing it. I see one of the users who reviewed the movie mentioned that their copy was in "seriously" bad condition. I would love to contact this user to see if they actually have a copy of this lost film. From this forum it seems as if private messaging is no longer a thing, but is there any way that this review or reviewer can be authenticated, as they would be the only known person with a copy of the short film?
Thanks
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The 'load more' pages system is the real bugbear for me too. It is this which has ultimately made me cease review contributions here. 10 at a time or 25 at a time, it makes little difference when you try to navigate through your reviews when you have, like me, been foolish enough to contribute 1,700 to this databse. If you do 'load more' to the point that you have several hundred reviews, trust me, your browser doesn't like it and it slows to a trickle and you cannot access reviews effectively in the least. This same issue would occur for popular films with hundreds of reviews.
In effect, the prolific reviewers have been shafted by IMDb here. As we are left unable to access our work from a single easily accessible location. We had this over a month ago with the previous set-up but now, we have nothing. The day this system was introduced I did 'paginate' through all of my reviews and copied and pasted them from the website en mass onto a Word document - it took over an hour just to get to the end, and it was slow as hell in the latter stages. The word count for my reviews was 650,000. This is 650,000 words that IMDb do not seem to be appreciating too much these days. But at least one good thing has come of this though, in the sense that at least it has made me finally take charge of my own work and have it in my possession for the first time.
In 2010 when the last big set of changes came in, there was a lot of complaints. But there was a difference. For one thing, some people could see the positives, so it was by no means the vast chorus of disapproval we have seen for these recent changes; and secondly, most of the complaints were basically down to the fact that the new system had been implemented with loads of bugs, so it did not actually work. These are pretty different reasons to the ones we have regarding the recent changes to various features, where I effectively see no one but the admins saying anything positive. The reason is that the 2010 changes - for all their initial bugs - were clearly and obviously progressive, where the recent changes we have experienced are regressive. In 2010, we had the introduction of many new features, where in 2017 we have seen the removal of chunks of functionality and accessibiltiy. The lists, ratings and reviews have all been dowgraded in a myriad of ways. The changes that have been implemented are of the style over substance variety. When the focus of a database should be precisely the other way around. With this type of thinking, IMDb is in danger of turning into a shop-front, which is a depressing thought.
The changes 'under consideration' for Q1 this year, mainly seem to be for the benefit of review readers, which is fine and all well and good (if they actually come in) but really nothing I have seen suggests any concessions have been given to the actual review writers, specifically those in the prolific variety. What is particularly annoying, is that we ask for so little, yet are still ignored. If a place doesn't respect you, you know what you need to do.
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