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Re: Spout Feature Feedback: MovieMind

slipofthetongue:

This feature is intriguing but I thought you should know that it doesn't work with a Mac browser. I tried it with a more generic browser (Firefox) and it worked. No need to exclude the millions of Mac users out there though so hopefully you can tweak it up a bit. Good idea though but like anything, we need for it to work seemlessly before we will find it anything but annoying (honest but true).

thanks!

Thanks for the honest feedback. Can you offer some more detail? What exactly doesn't work with Safari? We haven't seen any issues on our end. 

Re: Spout Feature Feedback: MovieMind

Sure.  I should have specified.  Safari is where I have the problem.  More specifically, when typing in a title and clicking on the selections that come up in the drop down menu below, it goes nowhere.  It is as though the clicking of the links doesn't work.  Have had this happen both times I tried to use this feature with Safari.

As I said, this problem does not occur with Firefox.  Have not tried it on Mac with Internet Explorer as I am moving away from I.E. altogether.  Hope this helps! 

Re: Spout Feature Feedback: MovieMind

The basic functionality is spot on but it needs polishing to become not only useful but painless. The ratings should save in the background, not block further ratings while the first saved. Get some threads on those. Everything involving a hit back to the server should be done without getting in the way of me using the tool. When the page first loads up, load up the next set of movies in each direction. That way even if I've just rated all the movies on that page and I click a direction button the server's not immediately doing any work, just loading up the cached set.

 As far as recommendations go, I'm witholding judgement. Netflix has over 2,000 movies rated by me and a much deeper dataset to compare against. Not to mention a more mature algorithm. To compare, I have ~250 movies rated in Spout and you guys just launched this service. I'm sure it will come along nicely.

Looks good so far, keep up the hard work to iron out the little details and make it a true joy to use! 

Re: Spout Feature Feedback: MovieMind

Thanks to everyone who has responded! We took these comments and suggestions, stirred vigorously with our own thoughts and relaunched a new version of this tool last week. I'm really curious what everyone thinks.

Thanks again!

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I kind of wondered why we couldn't just get straight up top recommendations based off of our cumulative ratings instead of having to enter specific movies too.

Isn't that how it was when you first introduced it?

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I don't like that movies that I've already rated keep showing up and they still have that big green "I want to see this" bar although I clearly have already seen them.

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Risselada:

I kind of wondered why we couldn't just get straight up top recommendations based off of our cumulative ratings instead of having to enter specific movies too.

Isn't that how it was when you first introduced it?

Actually, when you first go to the MovieMind page (and you are logged in) it will present you with recommendations based upon your cumulative ratings. You don't have to enter a movie or a genre. The thought behind doing that was to help narrow the search. You know, Saturday night and the family wants to watch a comedy. Select the comedy genre and have a bunch of titles recommended...and, if you don't want titles recommended that you have already seen or want to see, just uncheck the boxes that say, Include movies I've rated want to see.

Does that help? Confuse matters? Can we describe the process better? 

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That does clarify things.  Is there a way that can be indicated better on the actual page without cluttering it with too much text and instructions?  Or maybe have instructions below somewhere.

Also there seems to be a bug in the fact that when I uncheck the check boxes for including movies that I've already rated or listed as ones I want to see, those types of movies still show up...