IMDb Redesigns List-Like Pages

That does work, and I suppose I'll end up having to settle for that. Another idea I thought of was to add all the movies I want to add and then positioning them all, instead of adding and positioning each one before going on to the next one.

HERE is where Col Needham instructed me to reverse the List sequence in Edit mode as a workaround for problems caused by the add new titles search being moved from the bottom to the top of the page. It was implied that this workaround was a permanent solution because IMDb did not intend to reverse the change that caused the problems. I had been using this workaround for some time before I noticed that when you do that, the drag and drop option disappears.

@MSebring thanks for pointing out this context. To avoid splitting the thread, I responded to your original report here: https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/imdbcom/imdb-redesigns-listlike-pages/662a8541586efb2637c22757?commentId=67cec7d0fe70c2656b4814c9&replyId=67d9ad183a493204288b0119

@Col_Needham​ So now I have to switch to using my cell phone to operate the website as efficiently as I did before? That is a terrible solution, incredibly frustrating.

@dwhite1144​ We are all supposed to be cell phone junkies now. Personal computers are a thing of the past.

@dwhite1144​ This particular solution might not appeal to you, but it is what I do. I use a regular IMDB list for my "Watchlist", and every once in a while I use the JustWatch filters to display only movies from streaming services I use, from a particular time period, and with a minimum IMDb rating. Then I select which movies I want to watch and add them to my IMDb "Watchlist", and for each movie I check to see which streaming services it is available on, and put the streaming service I want to watch it on in a note on my list. Then I just work my way through the list and remove movies as I watch them. (Generally it takes me an hour or two to create a watchlist that lasts me two or three months.) Currently I am working my way through movies from the late 1930s that I don't already own and are available on my streaming services: My Watchlist

The blue down-arrow is the Filter button, and you can definitely select a range of your ratings, including 7 to 7. The button has lots of filters; you just have to scroll down. https://www.imdb.com/user/ur2875687/ratings/?single_user_rating=7%2C7

I thought they had fixed the abbreviated Notes box in Edit mode. (Only one of my lists uses the new editor because the rest have more than 100 entries, and that one apparently doesn't have any notes long enough to reveal the problem.) You can add that problem to my list of Things I Don't Like. When I am in edit mode, I often use my browser's Find command to locate certain text I want to change within my notes fields, and that process won't work very well if my entire notes fields are not displayed. I also had not noticed that the editor for the Description field has both the abbreviation problem and the Enter for End problem. You can add this problem to my list of Things I Hate. Overall, the lists of Things I Hate and Things I Don't Like about this new version greatly outweigh the two new features I really like (the Filters feature and the drag and drop method for moving entries in a list).

@Col_Needham​ I did this experiment today to find out what Horst was talking about: I added the following line to the first Note in my list: "I thought they had fixed the abbreviated note box problem but apparently I was wrong" then hit Enter to save my change. As you can see, only the first part of that line is displayed after you hit Enter. You have to edit that particular note again to see the rest of the line in edit mode. (The entire line is displayed when you select "< Back" to get out of edit mode.) This does not appear to me to be a "local browser issue". I am seeing the same result that he is. I recreated the problem using both Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge.

On second thought, I don't think the abbreviated notes box in edit mode will affect me much, if at all. I mostly use my browser's Find command in edit mode when I am removing movie titles from my "Director Index" list, and with around 70 characters before the truncation, that shouldn't be a problem. However, other users might be affected by it more.

"find out what Horst was talking about" Many were wondering, most of them still are. Thanks guys and I hope these issues can soon be fixed!

How about fixing the truncated notes issue when NOT in edit mode but in viewing mode as well?

Why must I scroll down, hunt within a note field (sometimes my notes fields are very lengthy) to edit or add information at the bottom of a notes box? Why can't I just go directly to place I want to edit?

@Col_Needham​ It does not appear to be fixed to me. Is it possible that the fix has not rolled out to everyone yet? I just edited one of my lists and added 80 character lines to a notes box. After hitting enter I only see the first 60 characters. (I see all 80 characters when I get out of edit mode.)

@Col_Needham​ It is not just multiple sentences that are the problem. It is the length of each line. My example also has multiple sentences and they are both displayed, but only the first 60 characters of 80 are displayed while in edit mode. I entered: 00000000011111111112222222222333333333344444444445555555555666666666677777777778 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 and only columns 01 through 60 were displayed while in edit mode. Ah... I see what you mean now. If your line contains blanks (my test example didn't) the editor inserts line breaks after a certain number of columns in both edit and view mode. However, after the line breaks are inserted, the lines are longer in view mode than in edit mode. As I mentioned before, I'm not sure now how important this particular problem is. I was originally concerned with Find commands not being able to find text that had been truncated, but in a real notes box I don't think anyone would insert a line with more than 60 characters without blanks, and I just tested a Find command to see if it would find text that wrapped around the inserted line break, and it did in both view and edit mode. Basically, the test I came up with did not resemble a real life situation. (I happened to choose that particular test because I was curious to see how many columns would be displayed in edit mode.)

@Col_Needham​ I can't understand, why it's such a big problem to bring back the option to press ENTER for a new line.

@bderoes Confirming that we have fixed this issue and list items now show their true position numbers, consistently across sort orders, on edit mode. We are working to extend this solution to view mode as well. Thanks for the feedback!

@SAR​ Edit looks good now. In View mode, I hope the true position number will be shown even when filters are applied.

@Col_Needham​ I certainly know that I can double click on a url to extract a "word" within it. But I'm not ON the page for the title, I'm on a search results page LISTING the title. I don't need to open the title's page. I can right-click to Copy Link. There's no way to copy some part of the link in that scenario. Hence the support for the entire URL in the prior version of Edit List.

This is a new problem that definitely needs to be fixed. When editing the Description field or one of the Notes boxes in your list, not only does the Enter key save your changes and end your edit. Selecting another window or tab does it as well. (I easily recreated this problem using both Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge.)

@Col_Needham​ It actually makes sense to you to save and end an edit session within your window when a user temporarily switches to a different window or tab? I am flabbergasted! This is totally contrary to the way Windows applications normally work. And there is nothing in the document you provided that justifies such an idea.

@Col_Needham​ Yes, I prefer having it follow the conventions of other Windows applications. When you minimize a window, or select a different window or a different tab within your browser, changes are not normally saved and edit sessions are not normally ended within the window/tab that you temporarily left. Windows and Internet Browsers are designed to allow you to do more than one thing at the same time, and to copy data from one window or tab into another. How would you like it if this forum was designed the way you have designed the Description fields and Notes boxes? You have more than one window open and you try to copy information from another window into your post (something that people do all the time), but when you come back you find that your unfinished post has already been saved. (This is exactly the same problem as what bderoes experienced when he attempted to copy data from another tab into the notes boxes in his list.) I also prefer having Enter create a new line in the Description fields and Notes boxes, just as it does in word processors and forum posts, and that you had to do something other than that to save what you entered, just as you do in word processors and forum posts. As I explained in a previous post, the Description field and Notes boxes are text fields (data intended to be saved, unlike the temporary single-line data entered for Search commands), and text fields generally follow the same conventions as word processors and forum posts.

@Col_Needham​ Regarding the closure of an Edit description/comment box when switching tabs in a desktop browser: Does Saving the content of that box need to Close that box? Leaving it open and with the cursor remaining where it was would be a great time (and frustration) saver. And why choose Enter to close the box? Are comments with line breaks so rare? The frustration is monumental when you're just trying to start a new line, and instead the box closes, especially if editing something in the middle of an existing comment. If instead you save at quick time intervals, as Google Docs/Sheets does, and provide Undo ability (ctrl Z and Esc), you don't need to close the box on the user. I'm telling you, it was a massive relief when the old editor showed up on day 2 of creating that recent list, and I could again move freely between tabs and not loose my place in the editing.

@bderoes​ 😀 https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/imdbcom/animals/664c5f5e6dc852698ebe31bf?commentId=664e45706d53fe1f4fe46461&replyId=664f65ab1b497d5d0704677d My comments: Create Text in 'Notepad' editor with line breaks etc. then Copy&Paste to the List IMDb: Add [Save] button !! .

Thanks, that DID help.

Hi Col Hi all Answer 1: with the old method, the export of my 12,000 ratings was produced in approximately 10 seconds. Indeed, sometimes the export failed but it was still quite rare. With the new method, one would be around the minute, despite the refresh / reload of https://www.imdb.com/exports/. It's slower but still reasonable especially if the method is more reliable. Answer 2: I eagerly look forward to these improvements! Answer 3: Here are 2 examples of lists that produce exports with empty cells within the column “directors” https://www.imdb.com/user/ur3257585/ratings/ https://www.imdb.com/user/ur3257585/watchlist/ Answer 4. Very clear. Thank you for the info Best regards, Stéphane

Hi Col Hi everyone. I just checked: my watchlist was indeed private; it’s now public. From now on, these 2 lists (e.g. ratings and watchlist) are both public. Anyway, I created a test list reduced to 4 films, with the Matrix saga. On my computer, with my settings (windows & IMDb), the column “Directors” is empty in the ad hoc extraction. This list is accessible here: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls547019186/ Note: with the previous modus operandi for the export, this column was 100% fine Best regards, Stéphane

It's incomprehensible. I traditionally use the latest version of Microsoft Excel, via Office 365 with an up-to-date windows 11. But, for this test, I exceptionally and additinoaly used the Windows application named "Notepad". When I open the export file produced by IMDb and named 5ff37acd-980c-4b48-948e-6a69b5868ca3.csv within Notepad, the word "Wachowski" is missing from the file.

I have a lead!!! I modified these 2 IMDb settings https://www.imdb.com/preferences/general Title display country/region: Before: France Temporarily: United Stated Title display language Before: French Temporarily: English And I exported again my 12,000 ratings Guess what! The "Directors" column now contains the directors. Hurra! So... the new version of the export obviously dislikes the French... ;-)

@Col_Needham​ Position,Const,Created,Modified,Description,Title,Original Title,URL,Title Type,IMDb Rating,Runtime (mins),Year,Genres,Num Votes,Release Date,Directors,Your Rating,Date Rated 1,tt0234215,2024-05-26,2024-05-26,,"Matrix Reloaded","The Matrix Reloaded",https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0234215/,Film,7.2,138,2003,"Action, Science-fiction",632248,2003-05-16,,6,2024-05-25 2,tt0133093,2024-05-26,2024-05-26,,"Matrix","The Matrix",https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/,Film,8.7,136,1999,"Action, Science-fiction",2060039,1999-06-23,,9,2017-09-22 3,tt10838180,2024-05-26,2024-05-26,,"Matrix Resurrections","The Matrix Resurrections",https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10838180/,Film,5.7,148,2021,"Action, Science-fiction",280873,2021-12-22,,5,2024-05-25 4,tt0242653,2024-05-26,2024-05-26,,"Matrix Revolutions","The Matrix Revolutions",https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0242653/,Film,6.7,129,2003,"Action, Science-fiction",544787,2003-11-05,,6,2024-05-25

You're welcome

Many thanks you for your listening. How soon will this bug be fixed?

Hi

@Michelle​ Hello Michelle Hello IMDb team Thank you for this bug fix. Thank you very much for this mark of attention and for taking the time to inform me. Best regards, Stéphane