Upcoming Changes to Your IMDb Profile Experience

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

I agree! I find features like "Rating distribution", "By Year" and "Top-rated Years" the most interesting features. I´ve mentioned this in another part of the forum but apparently that part has dissappeared. And the info in the "Welcome to your new profile" that tells me "To view your Rating Distribution(s) by Year and Genre, please refer to our new Help guide" is pretty worthless since I can´t get the average scores for each year or genre.

@november_frost Please see our reply below for an update on this: https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/imdbcom/upcoming-changes-to-your-imdb-profile-experience/686d59907f4d2f434ce03ad8?commentId=6873cecd1c71ec1136d9648d&replyId=6874acb3c180a14674454af5

@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.

@mariojacobs It is there. Please see “Recently taken polls” on the right hand side of the page under “Check-ins” (if you have any). If you are not seeing it, please follow the steps in https://help.imdb.com/article/imdb/common-issues/why-is-imdb-displaying-differently-on-my-browser/GF2ZAR69V859XLHF and let us know what happens. Hope this helps.

Indeed, thank you all. Now I found it "Recently taken polls". By the way: 12,972 total polls taken.

List section could host 2 columns and optimize space, now only 1 column and most space is blank.

We cannot make that change on our side, but are you familiar with the Tamper Monkey browser plug-in? For details see http://tampermonkey.net/ I had an LLM write the Tamper Monkey script below for me and it does what you requested. All you need to do is paste it into Tamper Monkey in your browser via the "Create a new script" option in Tamper Monkey menu: // ==UserScript== // @name IMDb Hide Multiple Sections // @namespace http://tampermonkey.net/ // @version 0.1 // @description Hides Check-ins, Recently taken polls, and Reviews sections on IMDb user profile pages // @author Col Needham // @match https://www.imdb.com/user/* // @grant none // ==/UserScript== (function() { 'use strict'; // Function to hide the specified sections function hideSections() { // Find all h3 headings const headings = document.querySelectorAll('h3'); headings.forEach(heading => { // Check for all three section headings if (heading.textContent.includes('Check-ins') || heading.textContent.includes('Recently taken polls') || heading.textContent.includes('Reviews')) { // Find the parent container and hide it const container = heading.closest('section'); if (container) { container.style.display = 'none'; } } }); } // Run the function when the page loads hideSections(); // Run the function again after a short delay to handle dynamic loading setTimeout(hideSections, 1500); // Optional: Add a mutation observer to handle dynamically loaded content const observer = new MutationObserver(hideSections); observer.observe(document.body, { childList: true, subtree: true }); })();

Thanks, that's cool. I will modify it to fit my preferences.

@nonononono Note that wherever you see the sequence ">" above, replace it with a greater-than sign -- unfortunately Sprinklr is over-protective of stray tags these days so it replaces the greater-than symbol with an HTML escaped version. I see one which need to be replaced. Tamper Monkey will flag it for you.

@emanuel_5255330 Please see the post at the top of this thread, and then for an update also see https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/imdbcom/upcoming-changes-to-your-imdb-profile-experience/686d59907f4d2f434ce03ad8?commentId=6873cecd1c71ec1136d9648d&replyId=6874acb3c180a14674454af5 Hope this helps.