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Wednesday, May 7th, 2025 3:05 PM

Announcement: Contribution Form Update

We're pleased to announce upcoming improvements to our contribution forms, designed to enhance your user experience.

These updates include:

 

- A cleaner, more intuitive layout that reduces visual clutter and improves form navigation

- The Submit/Check Updates button will now remain visible at all times, eliminating the need to scroll

- Addition of keyboard shortcuts for faster form navigation

- Optional 'Compact View' setting to maximize data visibility

 

The enabling of keyboard shortcuts and the Compact View setting are both accessible via the new top-right menu.

These changes will go into effect on May 8.

For more information, including previews of what the updated contribution form's design, please see our Help article:

 

https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/new-features-updates/announcement-contribution-form-update/GAVYKTP4MVQWB3B2 

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4.6K Points

1 day ago

I just came to complain about this, but then I saw there is a Compact View option, so I'll probably get used to it.

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Thanks Vande, let us know if you identify any issues or suggestions for further improvement, and I'll feed them back to the engineering team. Don't forget to try out the keyboard shortcuts too, and see if those make contributing easier for you. Thanks, Mark

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Thanks Mark. I have just discovered that one of my most used boxes "Name Merge" does not work on the new form. It just says "Add Merge" without any box actually appearing. Edited to add - if you do another correction to the same person at the same time as the Name Merge, then the Name Merge box suddenly appears, but only after you have actually put something into whatever other box you have chosen to update.

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66 Messages

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726 Points

Thanks for flagging Vande! The team have been able to reproduce this issue. It appears to only affect compact mode. We have a fix already and it should be fully deployed within 24 hours. Let us know if you come across any other issues. Thanks, Mark

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1 day ago

Is this still rolling out today?

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Hi cinemacriterion, Yes, the roll out has started with approximately 50% of contributors seeing the new experience at this time. We will continue to roll out to everyone over the next 2 weeks. Thanks, Mark

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Will it also be available on the iOS app?

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726 Points

These changes will not be coming to the iOS App anytime soon, but the floating submit button has been available in the app for some time now, so this change makes the two experiences a little more consistent.

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Still not seeing the new layout, is there a way to opt in to it?

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1 day ago

I can see it, and initially find it a little scary - that bold type - but change is always scary. I remember when the board last had an update, I disliked it at first, but I'd forgotten what the old version looked like in a couple of weeks.

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Thanks MovieCat, Yes, change can take some getting used to, but we hope that once you've gotten used to these changes you'll find the new additions like the keyboard shortcuts and floating submit button make contributing easier. Thanks, Mark

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1 day ago

I get eye cancer from it and with the new in screeen buttons you will get many corrections folr sure cause of too early submitted things

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726 Points

Hi Tatjana1984, We appreciate it may take some getting used to, but having to scroll to the bottom each time to see the check updates and submit buttons has been one of the most consistent complaints from users for years. Thanks, Mark

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212 Points

1 day ago

I've just seen that you've changed the page shape when adding a cast, for example. On the other hand, the “Warning understood, go ahead anyway” option used to be visible as soon as you were on the page, so you could click on the option right away and use the hook to go ahead. Now, we have to scroll down each time because this option is a little lower, which delays entries, thus reducing our data entry productivity. On 20,000 entries per year (on my side), you're increasing one more manipulation that we didn't need to do before, and if you multiply that by the number of people across all your global members, that's a big waste of time. Can we go back to the old version from 2-3 day ago, which was more efficient? thanks Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation Link : https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/imdbprocom/recent-shape-changes-during-data-entry-less-efficient/681cec6c8c51401937955ea8 Title : recent shape changes during data entry, less efficient

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Hi ericnm, Have you tried using the compact view? For me, when I am in compact view the warning checkbox is visible without needing to scroll. Thanks, Mark

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134 Points

1 day ago

It does look cleaner, although the "compact view" could do with being more, erm, compact.

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Thanks Scott_A_D, We've tried to ensure a similar degree of "data density" to the previous experience. If we find additional opportunities to compress without impacting accessibility, then we'll explore them. Thanks, Mark

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8.8K Points

1 day ago

and where is the compact view by the way?

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Please see the help linked in the announcement above: https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/new-features-updates/announcement-contribution-form-update/GAVYKTP4MVQWB3B2#

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1.4K Points

18 hours ago

I really don't get how this is "cleaner and less cluttered". The permanent "Recheck" and "Save for Later" buttons on my screen take up space. Sure, I get that "now you don't have to scroll to the bottom to click 'Recheck'", but you never had to before. If you hit the 'enter' button on the keyboard it automatically rechecked. Also, getting rid of the black outlines causes the colors to washout and blend into the white. This causes sections to blur together making it hard to see where entries are. Most importantly, the permanent "Recheck"/"Save for Later" button box covers up spaces that you are working on. I frequently use the tab button to advance to the next box when making updates, and the buttons are overlaid to the editable boxes at the bottom of the page meaning I have to scroll down to get them to come up from behind it. If nothing else, that needs to be fixed. This "update" really just seems like a solution in search of a problem that no one had.

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66 Messages

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726 Points

Hi thebluetuna, the page should scroll as you tab, so that you can always see the form field your cursor is on. If that is not working for you, please share details of your operating system and browser version so we can attempt to replicate the issue. Thanks, Mark