In the meantime there have been a lot of updates on the beta:
Movies
Small layout fixes on movie pages
Add movie page now correctly reports if a movie is already on iCheckMovies
Use tabs to quickly switch between checked/unchecked/watchlist/etc on overview page
Add option to change the check date of a movie (premium users only)
Added some more statistics to movie page (still need to add more)
Lists
Add list overview page
Add list detail page
Add check progress to list page
Add checks to next award to list page (premium users only)
Use tabs to quickly switch between checked/unchecked/new on list page
Option to select which version of a list you want to see (premium only)
Add comments page to lists
Add list info edit page (movies is not working yet)
New, lower rank and higher rank counts of a list update are now correct
Other
A lot of small layout fixes/improvements
Recalculate official list check count for users after list update
Recalculate official list count for movies after list update
Created a better way to track exceptions that occur on the site
Update to new IMDb URLâs for decade and genre lists to make the lists less volatile
I plan on posting a monthly-ish update here on my progress.
Please check out the beta (https://beta.icheckmovies.com/movies) and report your findings here
Note: Pages that have not been finished on the beta redirect to the current live version.
Ok, the beta uses a different way of storing movies in your watchlist. Normally those two methods should be in sync, but somehow they got out of sync. No problem, just remove the one on the beta and itâll be fine.
My âmonthly-ishâ update on the beta is a bit late, but better late than never
List progress
Iâve added the list progress page. There are a few things different from the current version (design changes aside).
There is a new tab âFollowedâ for premium members, which contains the official lists you follow. So by using the follow option, you can create your own list progress tab.
Sort by completion has been added, also for premium members.
The progress page has been made a first class citizen by moving it to the /progress url instead of /profiles/progress. This has been done in preparation of the new dashboard page that is coming.
Comments
Add option to report comments for different reasons (spam, offensive content, etc). The backend functionality is not yet completed.
Bugfixes
Fixed a bug where counts on the beta differ from counts on live (note: there could be a delay)
Fixed a bug where the comment input form would not always show for logged in users
Fixed a bug where the links to list detail pages where broken for lists with quotes in the name
The next update will include the new list editing page.
Progress page looks good. The default seems a bit big to me, scaling it down to 80% or 90% in firefox looks better for me. The layout accounts well for that, so itâs not a huge problem if you think this default is best.
The left/right sorting is a nice way to solve the single column collapsing issues you had before. One thing about alpha sorting is it sorts lowercase after last. it goes 0-9-A-Z-a-z. I think if you can make it ignore case that would be better.
Is there a delay? The number were the same for me when I read this post an hour ago. But I just checked a movie (in the live version) and my checkcount only went up in the live version, but not in the beta (although the movie is checked there as well).
Nice. Itâs not as compact as the current version, but I think it still displays nicely and crisply. Iâm not a fan of the left-right sorting, but I think itâs just something that will take me some time to get used to.
The followed tab is something I might start using. I always unwatchlisted lists when they became official because it was easy to find them in the progress tab, but now I can use it to separate out those lists that Iâm really interested in/actively working on (mind you, icm enhanced currently does this for me).
Regardless, thank you for all your work on this site
Oh, and some of the list icons arenât loading for me in beta (Australia, Martial Arts, and half of the BFI lists, for example).
Itâs a bit different but, besides being easier on the technical side, itâs actually a bit easier to use once you get used to it.
If you go to the film pages youâll see the icons are actually much bigger than on the live version, because itâs using the original vector graphics for them. I think for some of them Marijn is still working on converting/upscaling the graphics.
Will this result in more than just a separate tab on the progress page? Will you add notifications when something happens with a list you follow (like updates and comments)?
Would be great to follow movies as well and get notifications when a comment is being made.
(this has been brought up before, sorry if you already responded to this point and I simply forgot)
Yes, thatâs the idea. Youâll get updated on list updates and maybe comments. Not sure if people will appreciate getting notified with every comment made on a list. I might implement replying to comments and then it would make more sense to notify someone of a reaction to their comment.
There are not a lot of comments made on lists, so that wouldnât be a problem. Comments on movies is another story. Some people wouldnât be interested, but I know lots of people would be really really interested to get a notification once a comment is made on a movie-page. When you would implement following movies, I would follow every rarity that I canât get my hands on. Once someone posts about availability, I would be notified immediately. Wonderful!
There are even titles where I want to be notified when someone checks it. But maybe thatâs stretching it a bit too far.
I havenât been following the beta version closely and I recently checked in and I have to say I loved it! It looks fantastic and has improved so much since the last time I saw it. Because I havenât been paying close attention, I apologize if what I have to say is redundantâŚ
I agree 100% with this:
I also agree completely with this:
I have two suggestions of my own:
It personally helps me to see a.k.a. titles alongside the original titles in compact view. Iâd love to see this feature of the old version in the new version.
Maybe Iâm just used to the old version, but I would prefer to see checked movies with a darker background color than unchecked movies â this is for a couple reasons: 1) Iâve seen the movie so darkening seems more like the equivalent of crossing something off a list, and 2) with a brighter background, the contrast between text and background is higher so they stand out more. So in the new version, when I scan a list, my eye passes over the unchecked movies and goes to the checked ones. Instead, Iâd rather my eye pass over the checked movies and go to the unchecked movies. TL;DR Iâd rather checked movies have a darker gray background.
Just because Iâm paranoid Iâm not explaining myself well enough:
Here my eyes go straight to the movies I havenât seen - Toni Erdmann, Under the Shadow, etc. Even without the checkboxes to the right, I intuitively think La La Land, Moonlight, etc are âfilled inâ.
Here my eyes go to La La Land, Moonlight, and Ah-ga-ssi (hereâs a place where âa.k.a. The Handmaidenâ would really help me, by the way), and the lower contrast between text and background makes me think I donât need to pay attention to Toni Erdmann or Under the Shadow, etc.