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Hi DC - Thanks, this is really helpful feedback. I have passed along your comments to our product team for review.

@joshuawarrenmedia It looks like you missed this in Michelle’s post above: “While the previous version of your profile is no longer accessible, rest assured that we’re actively working on improvements, and some of the missing features will be returning soon. Stay tuned!“

Fair enough, though I have to say that I found the first post a bit vague. Maybe I should have clarified that in my reply but when it says "some of the missing features will be returning soon" it is quite vague, especially when the same post also straight up says the ratings distributions won't be available after 14 July. With this I think its fair that some people will take it to mean that it will be removed entirely. So does all this then simply mean that it will be temporarily removed? Isn't that what its technically already been in the last months (not counting the old profile still being accessible)?

@joshuawarrenmedia It is deliberately vague, sorry. Ordinarily we do not make specific timing commitments, however, these are extraordinary circumstances. The old site software has to be completely retired by the end of this month — this is a hard deadline which cannot be moved due to certain components expiring (the software is already much too old). We were hoping to have the new ratings distribution ready in time, but it is not going to happen now, sorry. The relevant team will be working on completing the new ratings distribution ASAP after the old site software has been decommissioned. In the meantime, you can still access your overall 1-10 vote distribution graphs on both the IMDb iOS and Android apps. Although the popular years / genres distributions will be temporarily missing, you can at least access reports of your votes by year and genre via the links on https://help.imdb.com/article/imdb/track-movies-tv/using-ats-for-ratings-distribution-by-year-genre/GGZ43A3V5UM735J5 Personally, I use the ratings distribution features just as much as everyone else (if not more so) and we simply had no choice here due to the hard deadline on retiring the old software. Hope this helps.

That makes sense. Apologies if my first reply came off as terse, I simply had a hard time figuring out what exactly was going to happen based on various threads I'd read. Thanks for the detailed explanation.