Make the "Photos" link on name/title pages open the gallery view by default

Thanks Col. I am clicking the "Photos" word in the film's page, you find it after scrolling a little bit down. But it still takes me to a specific photo, not the gallery.

argman, I have raised this before and it was already confirmed that it was intentional.

Ok, can I ask why it was intentional? What's the point of clicking "Photos" only to be taken to a singular "photo" instead of what you actually clicked? If I wanted a specific photo, wouldn't I just click on it? I am asking genuinely. 

I don't know; they said it tested better.

Weird, I am not sure how a user testing would turn this way. Maybe it wasn't conducted correctly, coz no way anyone in life would choose randomness over intention.

Our standard testing involves randomly dividing IMDb’s hundreds of millions of customers into two equal groups at random. One group always sees the existing page / behaviour and the other group always sees the new version / behaviour. This experiment runs for between 1 and 4 weeks. We measure a large set of customer metrics and we track the differences across the two groups via robust statistical analysis. At the end of the experiment period, if the new version performs better then we launch it. If the old version performs better then we keep that. The destination of the link here was tested using the above methodology and directing to a single photo outperformed linking to the gallery. If you want to still want to go directly to the gallery, you can get there from the “Photos” link in the “All topics” menu in the upper right of the title page. You can learn more about this at https://medium.com/fact-of-the-day-1/experimentation-at-amazon-51b35490d805 — it is standard Amazon procedure. You can also Google “Amazon weblab” Hope this helps.

I understand that, but when something doesn't make sense, maybe the test were conducted with some errors, respectfully. Maybe they did the test blindly and didn't ask the audience about their intention, i.e. no-feedback usability testing. I am only guessing though. Because ironically, when you actually need specific intention, it is not there. e.g. When you go to the pictures of a specific character, click on one of the photos with the intention of browsing the photos of that specific character, then you slide to the next picture, you'll find yourself browsing the whole movie's pictures. Now, I did get into this specific character to browse its photos, and not to open a photo then close it then find another photo and open it, etc...

I thought about a solution: We can split the screen into two sides, on has the gallery, and the other has the selected photo that is minimizable. This way, you'll get anything you want with the option of being as minimalist or maximalist as you want.