Adding items to the watchlist is fine. But When I tell it to remove items that I have already seen, instead of shifting everything up in line like it used to, it now takes items from the end of the list and sticks them up in the middle where items are removed from.
For example I added the movie ‘Wicked’ to my watch list and it was at the end correctly. My watch list has a couple hundred movies. After I watched and removed something else in my watch list, suddenly I couldn’t find the movie Wicked in my watch list anymore. Finally I found it had moved up 70 positions.
Please fix the button for “Remove Watched Items”, to work how it used to.
Hmm, this is a new one. For me, the rank of the newest films I’ve added to my watchlist is larger than the total number of films on my watchlist, leading me to believe something’s broken when I remove films. Not sure if that’s related to what you’re describing though.
Could you send over some screenshots so I can escalate this to Marijn to look into, please?
Okay. I created a similar situation and took screenshots this time. I started with my watchlist, having a movie on it that I just watched. I want to use the button at the bottom of the watch list called “Remove checked movies” to clear the watched ones and let me see the rest of the remaining list.
Here is a screenshot beforehand (Notice that Conclave is at the end of the list currently):
Then I click the button to Remove Checked Movies:
After confirming with the OK button, it processes for about 5-6 seconds and refreshes the page. Borderlands is correctly removed, but also Conclave is missing from the bottom of the list:
This time, it has moved up only 2 positions (not a huge deal) but the last time I did this, I was removing multiple movies from the first half of my list. That time it took the movie Wicked from the end of my list (#392) and moved it up to position #326:
I honestly could not find it for a long time and then realized it was still there but much higher. This used to not happen at all, but it would move movies up and keep them all in the same order.
If it always moved the movie less than 10 positions, I would not care, but when it can go 100 up in the list, it’s really annoying. Please get this fixed when you have a moment.
Thank you,
WilyHawk
Thanks wily.
I forgot that “Remove checked movies” button was there. I always re-sort my watchlist by most recently checked and unwatchlist the film from there (by clicking on the plus sign again).
Could you export your watchlist and check to see if the timestamp for when you added Conclave changed? or if it reorders the list based on the time instead of the numerical order?
And next time you want to unwatchlist a film, could you do so by checking on the plus sign instead of using the button, and see if the same behaviour happens? I suspect there’s something amiss with the button that’s causing the last film to move.
Oh, and can you confirm that it’s only the last film in the list that moves? None of the other ones change place?
Honestly, removing them by clicking the plus button again is a long way going about doing it, especially if I have watched 4-8 movies and have to search my ‘watchlist’ to try to find them all. I know I would accidentally miss some and never get them properly removed since I have hundreds of them. I am guessing that’s why Marijn created that button.
I exported my watchlist to a CSV, but it doesn’t have a column of data for a timestamp it was added to the list. Here are the data columns it has:
position
title
year
url
checkedcount
favouritecount
officialtoplistcount
usertoplistcount
akatitle
imdburl
checked
favorite
disliked
watchlist
owned
The column called ‘checked’ (and the last 4 after that one) are just a yes/no columns. None of the columns had dates/times in them. That would’ve been a cool way to test, but too bad it’s not there.
I can confirm when I only remove one movie with that button at the bottom, that it is always the last movie in the list that gets moved. I cannot be certain if it will move multiple movies if I am removing multiple at once. I will have to let you know after I watch a few more and test this again.
Still broken. This time I removed 10 watched movies from the list, and it took the last 16 and moved them other places, all throughout my list.
I had a list of 401 movies now to watch on my watchlist, with 9 of them having been watched. I clicked the “Remove checked movies” button and now I have 391, but the movie that used to be 383 is now movie 390 (it moved down because a lot of movies that used to be after it, were shoved up before it).
The movies that were removed/watched were at positions:
18
26
27
36
93
101
133
138
380
Some Movies that were moved:
The Thief of Bagdad moved from position 284 to 33
Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don’t Come Back!!) moved from 392 to 307
Flight 93 moved from 393 to 290
Crimes and Misdemeanors moved from 394 to 81
The Remains of the Day moved from 395 to 143
Shi mian mai fu moved from 396 to 188
September 5 moved from 397 to 389
Thunderbolts* moved from 398 to 355
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning - Part Two moved from 399 to 339
How to Train Your Dragon moved from 400 to 384
Karate Kid: Legends moved from 401 to 330
I have screenshots of all of this, if it is needed for me to get them to you.
This is getting really annoying because now I can’t even see what I checked for next year’s movies without looking up and down a list forever.
Please get this escalated to @Marijn so it can be looked into.
Thanks.
