IMDb Name Page Redesign

I'm very disappointed that the problem of the gigantic gap between the title of a work and the calendar year of release of said work, on each row, hasn't been fixed in the redesign. Why doesn't anybody seem to notice how hard it is for the eye to pan back and forth? That shit bugs the hell out of me. When the Name Reference View from the generation before last was retired, I had to create a script to manipulate the document object model (DOM) in such a way as to close the gap for the last generation name page layout, and then I was satisfied. Now, I have to repeat that same process again. Unfortunately a vast majority of the people who visit the site don't experience any discomfort from this gigantic gap of which I write.

@dcarley​ Thanks for the feedback ...

However. There is one issue I still find less than desirable, and seems to go against best practices for readability, accessiblity (around text contrast), and even consistency with the mobile app: the "Year" field has low contrast text and is separated from the film's title with a really large amount of white space.

The team will see the above point, thanks.  This came-up previously where we noted: We had a more compact two-column view of the credits in the beta version which was tested over the summer. Unfortunately, the customer feedback at the time showed that overall there were too many changes in the beta for people to handle at once.  The version you see now is a compromise and we will keep monitoring feedback such as yours as the new design settles in.

Your point on the visibility of the year is well-made though, thanks.

@Col_Needham​ Thanks for your reply. Sounds good to me. I wonder if there's a solution that keeps the one-column list view, but brings the Year field closer? I look forward to seeing what the team come up with.

Most likely some of these new problems will be sorted out in due time. If not soon enough, then I expect to hear from y'all folks in the coming months, like in January, February March, etc., and I'll be disappointed if there is nothing but crickets chirping on this forum regarding this matter.

Hi, Mike456​. I'd imagine the only people who've been blocked were the ones carrying themselves in a belligerent manner, or otherwise cleverly-disguised sockpuppet accounts.

I wouldn't say I was "belligerent", and certainly not using any "disguised sockpuppet account", but I sure as hell wasn't rude, just stated the obvious as many others here pointed out.

I don't know if my post was too spot-on or had too many (a somewhat semi-long post) points.

And as an IMDB user of near 20 years, I think I have the right to voice my opinion, so anyone that simply blocks my account, without a reason, I believe can go to h3ll for all I care.

If the reason is just that, too spot-on, I think the people hired to admin this forum need to get a better job if they can't take negative feedback. But, I'm at the same time surprised to find other posts here that are about the same level as mine was. I haven't updated the page yet, so they might be gone too.

Just to note, some people's reluctance to beat up on Col Needham has less to do with the fear of being booted out of here than the thought of how much more terrible things would be if he got frustrated and abruptly retired, abandoning that which he founded. (I don't think he would ever willing do that.) I suspect that he is doing the best he can. Furthermore, I'm not necessarily trying to pin the blame solely on the Amazon company or anything like that, because without some kind of support, the IMDb wouldn't have gotten much farther than where it was back in the late 1990s, unless volunteers were actually responsible for keeping the hardware running and up to date. We can see pros and cons, like with what happened to Linux, Mozilla and DuckDuckGo, when Google started being involved and Gnu was ever so slightly pushed aside. Those are just examples, because this whole "big tech" thing involves Apple and Microsoft too.

@henry_kujawa​ You might find our update from yesterday helpful, particularly the point around the “All credits” view -> https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/imdbcom/imdb-name-page-redesign/6351563ae7100d725d54c0bb?commentId=63878b2b038ef261b8f4b7fb

@Col_Needham​ The original designers got the credits right.  They showed a limited number of credits for each TV show, which allowed them to show the entire show/movie list for a person without a lot of scrolling, and with no "more" buttons required (now I not only need to click to see the list, I then need to click again for various episodes.  Click click click).  Then if you wanted to see the entire credits for a particular TV show, you did click the more button, but that was unusual for me.  The "All Credits" shows me all lines as if I went through on the old page and clicked "more" for each TV show, something I would never do, and that makes scrolling on the All Credits page difficult.  Again, the original designers obviously thought and thought about this, came up with a method that worked, and now it's gone.

@terence_towles_canote​ You might find our update from Wednesday helpful, particularly the point around the “All credits” view -> https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/imdbcom/imdb-name-page-redesign/6351563ae7100d725d54c0bb?commentId=63878b2b038ef261b8f4b7fb

@Col_Needham​ The "All Credits" view is much better than the Name Page right now, but one problem I have with it is that it is sorted by Year, not Project Type. I have always preferred sorting by Project Type to Year, so that an individual's movie, television, et. al. credits are separate. With regards to the Name Page redesign's approach to television show episodes, how about instead of opening in a pop-up window there was a drop down? For example, on James Arness's Name Page, beside Gunsmoke it would say, "635 episodes" beside which there would be a little down triangle ▼. You click on the triangle and, voila, it lists all the episodes! It would make the Name Page much more usable.

@terence_towles_canote​  Thanks for the feedback ...

First, could it be fixed so that our filters can be saved, so we aren't constantly having to reapply them? I don't want to have to apply the filter for "Project Type" every time I visit a Name  Page.

We will be including this suggestion in our post-launch review, thanks.

Second, could we be given a "View All Credits" (text only) page that is sorted by project type?

The "All credits" view is for a very specific purpose, sorry.  As you aware, the credits can be grouped by project type via the filter options in the main view so the suggestion stands less chance of being practical, sorry. 

Hope this helps. 

I agree.  It takes too many clicks and too much time to get the same results.  Not to mention the info on the screen is so large that it takes additional scrolling and extra clicks.  I really liked it when IMDb was lean and mean and data search was easy and fast.

Not all change is good and change for change's sake is only good for the programmers who want to keep their jobs.  Help us keep it simple and fast.

@renkessler​ You might find our update from Wednesday helpful, particularly the point around the “All credits” view -> https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/imdbcom/imdb-name-page-redesign/6351563ae7100d725d54c0bb?commentId=63878b2b038ef261b8f4b7fb

@fairbs​ You might find our update from Wednesday helpful, particularly the point around the “All credits” view -> https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/imdbcom/imdb-name-page-redesign/6351563ae7100d725d54c0bb?commentId=63878b2b038ef261b8f4b7fb

Hi, rinard. Welcome to the IMDb Community forum! Have you tried clicking the "All topics" button and then navigating to the "CREDITS" heading and clicking "by Rating"? Using the IMDb name page for Alfred Hitchcock as an example, this process would lead you to https://www.imdb.com/filmosearch/?sort=user_rating&explore=title_type&role=nm0000033.

@rinard​ As noted by @jeorj_euler above (thanks), the “All topics” menu in the upper right of each name page provides access to all of these views and more.  There are screenshots earlier in the thread at https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/imdbcom/imdb-name-page-redesign/6351563ae7100d725d54c0bb?commentId=6358cfc5ef90664918a5bd64&replyId=6358e79b232e4267b00341c6

Hope this helps. 

I'm don't fully understand. What is stepping?

The new responsive website has various sections which have multiple tiles (aka "cards") combined together in in a layout row.

• You can "step" through these tiles with the buttons [←] (previous) and [→] next.
• Or alternatively you can scroll horizontally.

These two navigation possibilities should be in sync. That's the proposed improvement.

Okay. Thanks. I didn't notice a problem apart from being unable to scroll horizontally while zoomed in, when using a (touch screen) smartphone Web browser.

Yeah, the three things I find least useful -- what they are known for, photos, and videos. I go to name pages mostly to see what else they are in/have work on. I wouldn't care so much about the known for/photos/videos if, on my phone, those things didn't launch while I was trying to scroll down to the information I need.

I've been trying the pages on desktop and find "By Rating" gets me where I want to go. Just wonder how long before that gets hosed or moved or buried.