How To New Feature - Creating Movie Threads (2 Viewers)

[Dave Upton]

You all may have noticed the new format of movie threads here, with posters and other info. I installed this add-on yesterday so that we can have this functionality in this forum.

Down the road, i'll be adding similar functionality to the TV area.

To make use of this feature, when starting a new thread, simply paste the link from The Movie Database

If I wanted to start a thread for Jurrassic World: Fallen Kingdom, I would search tmbd.org for that title, and then copy the URL for that page once I found the movie:

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/351286-untitled-jurassic-world-sequel

Then click "Post New Thread" on HTF in the Movies forum, and paste that URL into the thread title box, and click Create Thread:

 

[Malcolm R]

Never mind; I figured it out.

 

[DaveF]

Neat!

 

[Jake Lipson]

How do you add this to a preexisting thread on a movie?

 

[Tino]

One disadvantage is we can no longer see if we posted in that thread.

 

[Malcolm R]

One disadvantage is we can no longer see if we posted in that thread.

You have. (and so have I, probably.)

 

[Tino]

You have. (and so have I, probably.)

Good point.

 

[John Dirk]

 

[Dave Upton]

I'll look into how we can fix that @Tino

As far as adding to an existing thread, a specific group of folks currently has that ability. I will be expanding that to any who want to, so please PM me if you have existing threads you want to modify.

 

[Edwin-S]

Well, it looks cool and all, but every graphical addition isn't so great for people with slow connections. In my case, it is no big deal but there are a lot people in both Canada and America who do not have access to high speed connections and large bandwidth.

 

[Dave Upton]

@Edwin-S - this was considered before we implemented this feature.

The little thumbnail images for each thread in the forum view are about 3kb in size at most, so at the maximum number per page of 30, that's an additional 90kb of page load. Even on the slowest 1mb DSL connection, that adds about .8 seconds to loading the site.

If folks find it's breaking the site, chances are they have much more serious problems elsewhere on the internet.

 

[TonyD]

The Movie database?

 

[TonyD]

One disadvantage is we can no longer see if we posted in that thread.

Yes will this be addressed and does it only work for this TMDB.ORG?

 

[Dave Upton]

Yes, this add-on only works for TMDB.org.

I'm looking into the issue of whether you have posted in a thread, and am awaiting a reply from the developer.

 

[Jake Lipson]

I've never heard of TMDB before this thread.

This is not a complaint at all, but just an observation. I am way more acquainted with IMDb. But I agree the new formatting is cool.

 

[Greg.K]

One annoying thing for me is now when I open this forum it scrolls to the bottom of the page. (using Chrome on a Mac).

 

[Robert Crawford]

At first I didn't like this, but it's now growing on me.

 

[John Dirk]

I've never heard of TMDB before this thread.

This is not a complaint at all, but just an observation. I am way more acquainted with IMDb. But I agree the new formatting is cool.

They're different. IMDB is mainly for informational purposes whereas TMDB is used in the background by Kodi [and other Media Center applications] to scrape metadata.

 

[Aaron Silverman]

I never heard of TMDB before, either. But I like the idea. IMDB was great years ago, but now it's kind of a mess. I tend to go to Rotten Tomatoes for movie info now, but it's kinda clunky.

 

[BobO'Link]

OK... I absolutely do not like this.

Movie poster/images are superfluous and take up too much space - I can read.

Every page link clicked immediately takes you to the bottom - not the top.

How do I disable this for my account?