New Changes at Criticker

Ideas to improve Criticker and new feature requests, as well as announcements about new enhancements.
Moribunny
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Re: New Changes at Criticker

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mpowell wrote:
addeh wrote:Any chance of re-adding the average score display to actors/directors etc. pages?


Thanks for pointing this out! We've now made it so that if you hover over the percentile value, you'll see your average score.


Not sure I like this change. I had been using my average ratings all the time, and almost ignoring the average tier, so I would have been more comfortable with the tier hidden than vice versa.

The tier system is only marginally useful to me, because it ignores the actual value that I place on movies that I watch. My ratings aren't a straight line, they're a bell-curve; because fantastic movies are rare, and terrible movies I avoid. So most of the films I watch are average.

Over a decade ago, I remember asking for a tier system (perhaps, an optional, alternative tier system) that is calculated based on the absolute numbers assigned when rating films, rather than a relativization divided into 10 equal parts. Shortly after, the custom quips/colors were introduced. But those are just aesthetic, and if I use them, I sort of "lie to myself" about how my TCI's are being calculated, so I never use them. Tiers would be useful to me if they actually reflected my bell-curve-shaped taste in movies.

In lieu of that, the actual numbers assigned (and their averages) are still the best tool I have to understand my film ratings, so I lament having those averages hidden.

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Re: New Changes at Criticker

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It's also no longer indicating that a submitted film is in preview mode on an individual's page.

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Re: New Changes at Criticker

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Moribunny wrote:Not sure I like this change. I had been using my average ratings all the time, and almost ignoring the average tier, so I would have been more comfortable with the tier hidden than vice versa.


We agree it would be better the other way around -- and have just switched it!

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Re: New Changes at Criticker

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mpowell wrote:
Moribunny wrote:Not sure I like this change. I had been using my average ratings all the time, and almost ignoring the average tier, so I would have been more comfortable with the tier hidden than vice versa.


We agree it would be better the other way around -- and have just switched it!


Awesome! Thank you!

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Re: New Changes at Criticker

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Every time I click to load page 2 of a list it stops being whatever list it previously was (eg remembered films) and redirects to the list of every film on this website.

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Re: New Changes at Criticker

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Since the update, I've noticed that when you filter by "Your Scores" in a collection, the default is now to sort alphabetically by title rather than by descending score. Very minor matter, but the latter makes more sense to me.

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Re: New Changes at Criticker

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I'm also unable to sort by "Date Ranked" in collections

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Re: New Changes at Criticker

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Thanks for reporting these problems, guys, we hope to have them all fixed up soon.

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Re: New Changes at Criticker

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I agree with movieboy. I knew something was different about that page, but wasn't sure what it was. It was easier to parse info and more pleasant to look at under the old way.

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Re: New Changes at Criticker

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Is there a reason "regenerate PSIs" for actors and directors were removed? This was really useful and now i am stuck on pages with "Not Enough Info" for a majority of films when i view a random director.

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