What Happened to Moviebase!!!
I just go an update to version 7.0.2. Nothing looks right. I can’t see how to get to the Progress Page - the most important page of all. My home page is a mess. My home page customizations seem to have been lost. All the items on the home page look too large. Very little fits on the page. I have a banner at the top to download ReSubs. I don’t want to and the x to close the ad doesn’t work. My hidden items are gone. MY customizations to my personal lists are gone. I had just gotten used to version 6 , and it was starting to stabilize. Do you consider this an improvement? It’s a total mess. Please put it back!
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Stephen Jarrell
Aug 6
OK, Now that I’ve had more time to sit with version 7 and have gotten over the initial shock of a radically changed UI, I can see that there are some improvements that I like but there are several things that I find immediately problematic.
1) I really want to be able to get that ReSubs prompt off my Home screen. The close function doesn’t work.
2) I don’t like that my customizations to the home screen seem to have been lost. I hate having to start over again, but I guess I will go through and figure out what i want to change again.
3) I think it’s very confusing to have both the Progress List TV shows and our Watchlist under the same heading of Watchlist. If you want to combine them this way, how about calling the first section Progress and the second section Watchlist. I also don’t like that there is no separate count of items in the Progress List. I really want that back. How about separate counts for the two sections? it would be nice to have an option to not even show my Watchlist on that page.
4) I don’t like the scale of the displayed items. Everything looks too large to me. I would like it scaled down so I can see more items on a screen.
5) It appears there is now no badge on posters to indicate that an item is in one of my personal lists. I would like that back.
6) On the Home page, the “My Lists” item only shows part of the lists, unless I select the “See all” item. I really don’t like that. I would like to see al the lists on the home screen itself, like before, and be able to scroll through all of them. I also want them in alphabetical order on the Home screen.
7) On the page showing all my personal lists, there is no count of items in each list. Please add that. That’s another reason to show all the lists on the Home screen itself, where they do show a count of items in each list. Also, on the page showing all the lists, there seems to be no way to control the order of the individual items within each list. I see that there is order control if I select an individual list, but that order is not reflected on the page showing all lists. It should be.
That’s my initial list. I’m sure there will be more requests after I have used it for a while. I hope you can address these quickly. They really affect the usability of the product and are the reason version 6 looks much better to me.
Christian Krueger
Aug 6
Thanks for the feedback. I will track these in the next few hours. The app has been reworked with a new framework for iOS and web as well; otherwise, it would be dropped completely.
The Resubs banner was not intended.
Most users prefer an “Up next“ screen of all shows to watch.
Christian Krueger
Aug 6
Thanks for the feedback.
Do you mean the home page section header are too large?
The show screen should have the progress; it is in the filter and settings, switched from the old progress rows.
The banner will be fixed in the next version.
Stephen Jarrell
Aug 6
Chris,
Please see my above more detailed comments.
Thanks
Stephen Jarrell
Aug 7
Thanks for the quick work you have already done.
Here is additional feedback on the items above:
1) The ReSubs issue is fixed.
2) I understand that it was impossible to make my home page customizations carry over exactly to version 7 because the customization options changed quite a bit. So, no worries on this one.
3) Offering the “Classic View” option and also providing the option to turn off the Watchlist portion and changing the headings for the sections completely satisfies me on this issue. I find is very usable now. That was amazingly fast work on a seemingly fairly complex change. Thanks.
4) I think my concern about the scale of the items on the home page is largely because some items on the home page have gone from a poster type display in portrait mode to a landscape backdrop type display, and they are quite large. Also, the My lists items are each very large now, so only about 1 ½ items fit on my phone screen. I suppose I’ll get used to it, but I think some of the items could be scaled down.
5) My list badges are back as an option. Very fast response. Thank you.
6) I still really want to see all my lists there and be able to scroll through them. Many sections of the home screen show many more items than required for this, so it should be easy to provide. I also really want them in alphabetical order as they are in version 6 and before or to have an option to choose the order. Now it seems random.
7) This one is still an issue, and one that’s important to me. I make heavy use of personal lists. The sorting issue also applies on the page that is displayed when i select the person icon at the bottom of the page. I’m not sure what to call that page, but it includes sections for History, Watchlist, Collection, My Lists and Stopped watching. I would like to control the sort order for the items in those individual sections or at least have them reflect the sort order I choose when I look at the full listing for one of those sections, where sort order is offered as an option.
Thanks you for all your attention to these issues