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List of All New Features - by Travis Bell TMDb
posted by lantznSTAFFMOD on February 23, 2017 at 3:23 AM
NEW FEATURES
by Travis Bell TMDb MOD
Genre Cleanup & Consolidation
posted by Travis Bell MOD on Jun, 10 2017
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General Discussions Removed
posted by Travis Bell MOD on May, 28 2017
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New Account Pages
posted by Travis Bell MOD on Mar, 27 2017
This feature is now active. Click the white link name Your Account in the menu to the left to be taken there.
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👉🏼 Using the Custom Lists Sorting Feature
Front Page Redesign
Reply by Travis Bell MOD on Mar, 18 2017 at 8:14AM
The homepage is being completely re-designed in a month or two. It's all new and completely different.
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Quote with Link ("mentions")
posted by Travis Bell MOD on Mar, 03 2017
This feature is now active. When you click on the quoted person's name (shows as green link) you will be taken to the original post.
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Message Editing Tools and Preview
posted by Travis Bell MOD on Feb, 27 2017 at 12:03PM
If you create, reply or edit a discussion or comment, you will now see a toolbar that should help use some of the rich text tools. Better yet, it's got a preview button so you can check to see what it will look like before hitting submit. 👍
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Link to Last Reply
posted by Travis Bell MOD on Feb, 24 2017 at 3:48PM
This has been added. It won't work until a new comment ends up on a discussion but you'll see them slowly roll in as people reply to posts.
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Profanity Filter
posted by Travis Bell MOD on Feb, 23 2017 at 8:34AM
Ok, first off before anyone gets upset about this... if that's how you feel, stop reading this and go right now to your account page click "Details" and change the filter setting to "No". Easy, done! 😬
Now, for the details of why this was implemented. Yes, you can find me saying I would never make this the default and clearly I'm going back on my word. The main issue is that people of all ages use TMDb (not just the discussion boards) and the more I thought about it the more I didn't like that someone could stumble into a discussion with a bunch of f-bombs being dropped.
I don't see this being a big deal as I've provided an easy out for those of you who want to see all the words in all their glory. Sound reasonable?
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Blocking/Ignoring Users
posted by Travis Bell on Feb, 21 2017 at 07:05PM
You can ignore users. Just click the grey "ignore" link on each discussion/reply. Their posts will completely disappear from the discussion lists and comments of a discussion.
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Keyboard Shortcuts
posted by Travis Bell on Feb, 21 2017 at 12:21PM
There's only 4 right now, but they can be helpful for those on a computer.
n: Creates a new discussion
r: Replies to a discussion (when you're on one)
l: Jumps to the last post (when you're viewing a discussion)
ctrl+return: Submits a message when you're composing one (new discussion, replying to one)
Are there any others that might make sense?
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"Liking" Discussions and Comments
posted by Travis Bell on Feb, 21 2017 at 12:19PM
A popular request, so it's been added. Feels a bit more organic now I think. Saves people from just doing a +1 or if that's all they have to say.
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Push Notifications and Notification Centre
posted by Travis Bell MOD on Feb, 15 2017 at 3:17PM
Fresh off the press is a push notification and notification centre. You'll see a "bell" icon sitting next to your username for this. Notifications update automatically so you don't even need to refresh the page. If a new notification comes in, BING (there's no sound, that's just me), it appears.
One cool thing is that by using these notifications (by clicking the links to go to the item that is notifying, ie. a discussion), only the first reply is thrown into view which means you automatically get a "jump to newest" thread functionality. Pretty cool, right?
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Custom Avatars
posted by Travis Bell MOD on Feb, 14 2017 at 11:24AM
You can now upload your own avatar. It is recommended you upload as close to a square as possible as we will just crop it if it's not.
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Quoting Replies
posted by Travis Bell on Feb, 13 2017 at 03:11PM
You can now click the little quote icon on each discussion or comment to quote and reply. This should make it a little (ok a lot) easier to reply to certain people or comments you want to address.
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Account Notifications
posted by Travis Bell on Feb, 12 2017 at 09:05AM
I realized I pushed this and really only mentioned it on a few threads so, let me formally mention it. If you go to your account page and click the "notifications" link in the left hand sidebar you can change the default notifications. The point here was to split up being able to "watch" a discussion and get sent emails about it. These settings in your account page are the default settings. You can override them by watching or subscribing to individual threads if you want.
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Emojis
posted by Travis Bell on Feb, 11 2017 at 08:33PM
I thought I'd add a little personality to this place.
You can activate the emoji chooser/search by using the : character.
🎉 🎉 🎆 🎆 🎆 💯 🕺 😸
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New Discussion Boards Added
posted by Travis Bell on Feb, 06 2017
IMDb members made requests to have Discussion Boards added to each individual Movie and TV show page, due to the coming closure of IMDb Boards on February 20, 2017.
This is the thread that started it all.
As you read the thread please remember that MANY of the things discussed early on changed. It is quite lengthy, with hundreds of posts, but gives you an idea of what it took to make this happen.
Your Discussions 👈🏼 click
BASIC NAVIGATION
There are TWO GROUPS of Discussion Boards, MEDIA and SUPPORT.
MEDIA - Movies, TV, Celebrity and General
SUPPORT - General, Website, API and Content Issues
From the TMDb homepage
https://www.themoviedb.org/
MEDIA
Use the Let's Chat link to the right of the 2016 That's a Wrap link.
Also the Forums link in the far upper right of the page.
https://www.themoviedb.org/discuss
SUPPORT
Use the Support link in far upper right of page.
Also the Support Forums link at the bottom of the page in the footer.
https://www.themoviedb.org/talk
What is the difference between closed threads and private threads?
Reply by Marr 🇳🇱 MOD on Mar, 31 2017 at 1:35AM
Closed threads can be opened again by everyone indeed. It's an easy way to mark problems / questions as solved. Private means only the topic starter, Mods, and people already in the discussion (clicking Watch or replying and not unwatching) can see it. Even people with the url who didnt reply cant see it.
FEATURES IN THE WORKS
Trivia Section 👉🏼 click this to see discussion
Sticky Threads ("pinned") 👉🏼 click this to see discussion
Import Custom Lists 👉🏼 click this to see discussion
Private Messaging 👉🏼 click this to see discussion
Daily Digest Emails 👉🏼 click this to see discussion
Signatures 👉🏼 click this to see discussion
Favorite Board 👉🏼 click this to see discussion
Posting History 👉🏼 click this to see discussion
Export Lists 👉🏼 click this to see discussion
Advanced Search for Forums
👉🏼 click this to see discussion
👉🏼 Has Actor 1 Ever Worked with Actor 2? FeatureNotify Me When Someone Posts for the First Time FIX 👉🏼 click this to see discussion
How to Import your IMDb Ratings, Favorites and Watchlist to TMDb
👉🏼 click link to see how
Great job and MUCH appreciated Travis!
~Lantz
Reply by tmdb57932021
on February 25, 2017 at 5:10 AM
I see the user history isn't on the planned list yet. That makes me a sad panda. How can we build cliques without it? And what is an internet message board without cliques?!
Reply by A to Z
on February 25, 2017 at 6:15 AM
Link to last reply has actually already been implemented. It just only works on threads that have been replied to since the change was implemented.
Reply by SeinfeldFriend
on February 25, 2017 at 7:58 AM
I am absolutely floored by the brilliant work you have done in such a short amount of time! I'm here from the IMDb boards, after being recommended by another user. Seeing changes implemented as I'm exploring the board is very impressive! Listening to what people want is certainly not what we were used to at IMDb!
Reply by Greg Matanjun
on February 25, 2017 at 8:36 AM
It would be great if we can have a "Plot Summary" or a "Plot Synopsis" link to every Movie/TV Series, like they have at IMDb. I do visit those pages a lot whenever I need to understand the story better.
Reply by tristavv
on February 25, 2017 at 11:40 AM
Thank you for creating this site!!
Reply by lantzn
on February 25, 2017 at 8:16 PM
My list started with Travis' New Features posts. Then I started seeing Travis' comments to people making suggestions that that was in the works. So I thought I'd would be helpful to add that in the list so people wouldn't have to keep asking. Do you have the threads showing Travis' confirmation that those are being worked on?
Reply by lantzn
on February 25, 2017 at 8:27 PM
@tristavv
Just to be clear, I didn't create the site, that thanks goes to Travis Bell. I've just been keeping track of the features he's been adding so people can see them all in one place and know what's happening. It appears even the moderators have found it useful. 😃
Reply by Banana
on February 25, 2017 at 10:47 PM
Whew! It was harder that I expected. (I also grabbed anything that could maybe be useful along the way)
Reply by lantzn
on February 26, 2017 at 2:46 AM
@banana_girl
I've added all but the last 3. Travis either didn't confirm them or said they weren't happening. If I read them wrong, please point me to the correct one.
Thanks for giving me these. It's hard to find some confirmations when they are buried in a non-related thread.
Reply by fan_of_films
on February 26, 2017 at 7:06 AM
Two new functions which I feel could enhance the board experience:
Posting images (perhaps set at a default size to avoid huge images cluttering up the reply box)
Posting videos (most message boards feature Youtube videos )
Obviously all content must be specific to the topic thread. No Rick Roll videos!
Reply by New_Donatella
on February 26, 2017 at 11:31 AM
How did you get the color fonts?
Reply by k3sh
on February 26, 2017 at 12:00 PM
Click quote on that post and you can see the HTML tags.
Reply by New_Donatella
on February 26, 2017 at 12:11 PM
THANKS! :)
Reply by Claddagh
on February 26, 2017 at 3:10 PM
Great post Lantzn Thanks! I haven't seen a lot of these.
Puts into prospective how much work Travis has done already. Thanks Mr Bell.
Reply by bratface
on February 26, 2017 at 7:42 PM
Any chance of using images that AREN'T 'jpeg images'? I have one that is a 'png' image that I can use other places but not here.