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I liked the very very good UI/UX, good job! What are the technologies involved ?
It's a typical Rails 3 apps, Nokogiri used for scraping, PostgreSQL db (migrated from SQLite originally), jQuery+ui for the aucomplete (lazy, yay!), and that's about it :)
Background images that are even bigger than 700 KB and every single click on a link has a new one? Is that really necessary?
While the search is all nice and stuff, what about browsing available stuff? Is that an intentionally lacking feature because you say "please don't download content that you haven't bought" anyway?
I searched for the film 8 1/2 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056801/)
Two things:
1. The director's first name is wrong.
2. No results (maybe due to the ½ symbol.)
EDIT: here http://movies.io/m/fI
- Resource interpreted as Font but transferred with MIME type text/plain: "http://movies.io/assets/Lato-Reg-webfont-6690edfe4c4ab548613...
- Resource interpreted as Font but transferred with MIME type text/plain: "http://movies.io/assets/Lato-Lig-webfont-653131606c56b81c0ae...
(Safari 5.2 beta, OS X Lion 10.7.3, though that is clearly irrelevant!)
Not working in konqueror and midori. In opera I had to hit enter twice - but only once, then it worked normally. Background images that are even bigger than 700 KB and every single click on a link has a new one? Is that really necessary? While the search is all nice and stuff, what about browsing available stuff? Is that an intentionally lacking feature because you say "please don't download content that you haven't…
About backgrounds: the randomness is part of what attracts people to the website (bored? just reload N times). That said, for logged on users, there could be an option 'disable random background' or something like that.
Why is page size a problem btw? Are you browsing on mobile? We'll have a mobile-friendly website without random backgrounds.
As for browsing available stuff: there's top50, and you can share public watchlists. For other queries such as Year/Genre, etc. you're better served with a search on IMDb or similar and then come back to movies.io. It takes time to do it right and we didn't want to release something half-assed.
We'll look a lot more into recommending content (from your 'peers'), there's a whole social aspect of the website which isn't there yet (mostly because some people don't care about it, and just want a search engine).
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Just heard of torrentbutler a few hours ago. It's interesting, and gets a few things right, but it's not what we're going for. Hopefully the minimalist side of movies.io attracts a different kind of people. Also, the whole watchlist+sharing aspect is missing in tb.
If you added TV shows it would be better. Finding movies isn't hard, finding episodes of TV shows is tedious and error prone.
Pretty. I searched for the film 8 1/2 ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056801/ ) Two things: 1. The director's first name is wrong. 2. No results (maybe due to the ½ symbol.) EDIT: here http://movies.io/m/fI
We don't yet update our stuff from TMDb once cached, but will do soon.
http://techland.time.com/2011/08/30/expendables-piracy-lawsu...
How do you plan on staying online?
- Not based in the US: check - Not hosting any infringing content: check - DMCA-compliant: check - Not selling anything: check - Not doing ads, not tracking you [1]: check - Not trying to sell your data elsewhere: check Lawyers will handle the rest. We're not interested in piracy, just very very good UI/UX. Stay tuned. [1] We use Gaug.es and Piwik with IP fuzzing. They provide enough high-level metrics so that we can…
With the absence of a "not" there, it's not quite clear whether you're telling the truth or not, but a http request to "track.gif" could be construed as, you know, tracking us.
http://secure.gaug.es/track.gif?h[site_id]=4fb448ea613f5d5be...
> We're not interested in piracy
Sure you are. You're directly helping people perform it. I'm not saying what you're doing should be illegal, but let's be honest here. You are "interested" in piracy. One could argue you're even involved in it.
BUG: - Resource interpreted as Font but transferred with MIME type text/plain: " http://movies.io/assets/Lato-Reg-webfont-6690edfe4c4ab548613... - Resource interpreted as Font but transferred with MIME type text/plain: " http://movies.io/assets/Lato-Lig-webfont-653131606c56b81c0ae... (Safari 5.2 beta, OS X Lion 10.7.3, though that is clearly irrelevant!)
I clearly suck at sysadmining.
![http://secure.gaug.es/track.gif?h[site_id]=4fb448ea613f5d5be...](http://secure.gaug.es/track.gif?h[site_id]=4fb448ea613f5d5be100000e&h[resource]=http%3A%2F%2Fmovies.io%2Fm%2F1m&h[referrer]=http%3A%2F%2Fmovies.io%2Fi%2Ftop50&h[title]=Project%20X%20(2012)%20%7C%20movies.io&h[user_agent]=Mozilla%2F5.0%20(Macintosh%3B%20Intel%20Mac%20OS%20X%2010.6%3B%20rv%3A12.0)%20Gecko%2F20100101%20Firefox%2F12.0&h[unique]=0&h[unique_hour]=0&h[unique_day]=0&h[unique_month]=0&h[unique_year]=0&h[screenx]=1920&h[browserx]=1920&h[browsery]=594×tamp=1338576974951){kind=link}