Re:I’ve made a movie site, but it sucks, and I don’t know why
by anigbrowl on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @06:45PM
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- I don't like the name at all. It's not obvious how to pronounce it and that's a huge problem if you want people to talk about it. MovieWish I'd be fine with.
- Basic problem - what do I do with this list? Is it integrated with my Netflix account? My Bittorrent client? A ticketing service like Fandango? The DVR on my TV? all 4 of these?
- Forget numerical ratings and silly averges like this movie is 7.4/10 points good – for you, a movie is either good or bad, period. I hate this. My opinions on a movie are much more nuanced than 'good or bad'. I'm not even that hot on only having 5 stars to do a Netflix rating. 'Averages' is spelled wrong BTW.
- The individual movie pages are OK, in fact the graphic design is pretty good. still, I can't escape the feeling that it's a prettier but less capable version of IMDB. did you scrape their DB? a good aspect is that so far my searches have all returned a result, even for my obscure test films.
- Social buttons - I would fold them away under a sharing icon and put them in a UI frame rather than straight in the film listing. I never understand why site designers want to stock someone else's branding in the middle of their offering.
- Basic problem - what do I do with this list? Is it integrated with my Netflix account? My Bittorrent client? A ticketing service like Fandango? The DVR on my TV? all 4 of these?
- Forget numerical ratings and silly averges like this movie is 7.4/10 points good – for you, a movie is either good or bad, period. I hate this. My opinions on a movie are much more nuanced than 'good or bad'. I'm not even that hot on only having 5 stars to do a Netflix rating. 'Averages' is spelled wrong BTW.
- The individual movie pages are OK, in fact the graphic design is pretty good. still, I can't escape the feeling that it's a prettier but less capable version of IMDB. did you scrape their DB? a good aspect is that so far my searches have all returned a result, even for my obscure test films.
- Social buttons - I would fold them away under a sharing icon and put them in a UI frame rather than straight in the film listing. I never understand why site designers want to stock someone else's branding in the middle of their offering.