Good news for IMDB users….

Updated on November 4, 2010 By Ken Begg 12 Comments

I’ve tried to adapt to the IMDB’s retarded new look, which is about 1/10th as easy to use and clean as the old one. Hell, they don’t even number the films anymore!

Turns out you can go back to the old look.  Just log into your IMDB account (or start one), go to site preferences, then click “Show previous title and name page design (reference view)”.  That returns you to the original format of the site.  Thank goodness!

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  • BeckoningChasm

    Why is it that 90 percent of the time, when some site does a big new look, it’s 100 percent worse? Thanks for the tip!

  • Magazines are even worse that in that regard. They tend to want to fancy things up, sometimes to the point that you can barely read the articles anymore, what with colored fonts and such.

    I just hope the IMDB keeps allowing for this. I mean, I really have given the new design a shot, but it’s just incredibly user unfriendly because of all the design elements they added. I’ll stick with the basic, proletarian ‘list of things,’ thank you very much.

  • And thus the national nightmare was over!

    Well, maybe just my nightmare…

  • BeckoningChasm

    The idea of the IMDB, for me at least, was always research. Who did what, what’s that guy’s name, when was that made? The new format seemed more like People magazine, geared toward publicity photos and trivia, and, oh, if you insist, here are some credits for you NERDS. But we’ll arrange them so they’re not easily collated, just for revenge!

  • Exactly. Unsurprisingly, I depend on the IMDB when I’m writing an article, and the new format gives me gas in terms of trying to just get data. Going back to the old format was a HUGE relief.

  • monoceros4

    “Just log into your IMDB account (or start one), go to site preferences, then click “Show previous title and name page design (reference view)”.”

    Maybe ruining the site’s interface (and it is, indeed, absolutely terrible) is a way of getting everyone to register? No, that’s silly.

  • alex

    The IMDB new look is a pain in the neck (to be polite). If it ain’t broke don’t fix it. Yahoo offered a link to their old page when they made that crappy redesign last year. After a while they removed it. I suspect IMDB will do the same eventually.

  • Alex — I fear they will, too. But in the meanwhile, it’s a real relief to have the option. Maybe we should all right to the IMDB and thank them for having the option.

  • Rock Baker

    So Yahoo will never go back to the old page design? Nuts. I’ve been waiting them out in hopes everyone agrees with me and likes the old format better and they change it based on user demand. There for a while it jumped back and forth for a long time. I was still clinging to the hope I might get to see something more basic return.

  • THANK YOU KEN

    IMDb’s new design is for s***. It even crashes my browser and sometimes computer, like wretched, wretched Facebook. You have NO IDEA how much happier this makes me.

    Actually you must, because you obviously felt the same way…

  • I swear, I almost wept when the old version came back up. It’s SOOO much better. Navigating the new site to get, you know, DATA is a pain in the ass.

  • Jimmy

    I knew I couldn’t be the only one who hated the new design. Thanks for the heads up, Ken.