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1.9K Points
Lists: Drag and Drop needs to return
There seems to be a trend over the years on most of the sites that I visit. Updates on youtube, IGN, imdb, a myriad of sites getting awful new comment systems, they all take something that works efficiently, and proceed to dial it back 10+ years.
Like drag and drop, it made creating/editing lists quick and easy. Want to add a new item? Well then, drag it to where you want to go! Want to reorder a number of list items? Drag them away, it will take seconds! But ever since IMDb's last update, you now type in the number you want an item to go to, scroll right up to the top to save it and essentially refresh the page EACH TIME, because you don't know how it's going to look. So you'll literally have to refresh the page over and over and over, taking forever. It's so inefficient, so off putting, so antiquated despite being the year 2018 and still no action taken by the site.
The only user input on this site is making lists, which creates a ton of revenue (for the site; some get hundreds of thousands, even millions of views per week). Thus making those lists should not have to be a battle, particularly when it never used to be. It shouldn't be ignored for months on end as if the problem will go away and it will magically get easier to edit, because it's not happening.
Like drag and drop, it made creating/editing lists quick and easy. Want to add a new item? Well then, drag it to where you want to go! Want to reorder a number of list items? Drag them away, it will take seconds! But ever since IMDb's last update, you now type in the number you want an item to go to, scroll right up to the top to save it and essentially refresh the page EACH TIME, because you don't know how it's going to look. So you'll literally have to refresh the page over and over and over, taking forever. It's so inefficient, so off putting, so antiquated despite being the year 2018 and still no action taken by the site.
The only user input on this site is making lists, which creates a ton of revenue (for the site; some get hundreds of thousands, even millions of views per week). Thus making those lists should not have to be a battle, particularly when it never used to be. It shouldn't be ignored for months on end as if the problem will go away and it will magically get easier to edit, because it's not happening.
ricky_hm
8 Messages
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634 Points
7 years ago
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claire
950 Messages
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41.6K Points
6 years ago
Thank you again for this feedback. (For reference, originally discussed on previous thread here.)
This feedback has been reported to the appropriate team, and I've forwarded your additional feedback above as well. At this time, we do not have a planned update to reinstate the drag-and-drop feature for list editing. I've updated this post to an "Idea" where it can be reviewed and discussed by other IMDb staff and users.
Thanks,
Claire
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lorenzo_lombardi
3 Messages
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152 Points
6 years ago
I miss how you could drag and drop list items. This numbered listing method is kind of less functional in my opinion. Also, could you implement some sort of list order change function for the Android app?
Best regards,
Lorenzo.
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amy_di_stasio
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172 Points
6 years ago
As an obsessive list maker, I absolutely love that I can make lists within IMDB! What would be even more amazing though, would be the ability to drag and drop the items in my lists to reorder them on a desktop, rather than renumbering the lot manually. Help?
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johannes_riemann
6 Messages
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328 Points
5 years ago
-the biggest problem is the list editing feature: you cannot DRAG&DROP the titles anymore!! This is extremely inconvenient for any list you want to order, especially for lists of 100 or more titles as I have. You always have to first determine at which position you want the title to be, then go to the title and type this position into the title’s position box, and then scroll all the way to the top of the list to select “save list order”. Most annoyingly, you really cannot do this for several titles at once, because otherwise the order gets jumbled, so you have to do this separately for every title, which for a list of 150 titles can take several hours.
-another problem of the editing feature is the same as for the “Your ratings” list: in the list editing mode you can sort your list only by list order and date added, not by release date, imdb rating, alphabetical etc.
-also, if you enter the editing mode, all previously selected refinements after genre or type are discarded and the whole list is shown
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kyve1
2 Messages
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72 Points
3 years ago
It is very annoying to especify the position a movie is in the list. I like to keep everything organized by my preference, but any other app/site (Spotify, Notion, etc) you just have to pull the item to its respective new position, plus you can do it with several items once.
The IMDb system is so flawed that it doesn't let you move multiple movies at once without mixing everything up, or you have to specify one by one and save the changes everytime.
It consumes time, it is annoting, it doesn't work and simply doesn't make any sense.
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tomyan112
2 Messages
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70 Points
2 years ago
Allow drag and drop to arrange the order of titles in a list
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MrFargo
29 Messages
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396 Points
20 days ago
My only issue with this is if you have a list that's in the THOUSANDS.
Especially if you want to add new items/sort chronologically... yeah, without having the "enter a number" system, I see this change potentially being a big problem. Granted, I could be biased because I've only had the numbering system available the entire time I've been on IMDb, but that's my two cents.
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