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    2 days ago

    IMDB used to have an amazing cross-search. You could put any combination of actor, crew, movie/show title and it would bring out common movies/shows.

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      1 day ago

      That sounds like it would be a pretty simple program to create a replacement for if IMDb’s data is scrapeable, but I don’t know anything about programming

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        17 hours ago

        That sounds like it would be a pretty simple program […] but I don’t know anything about programming

        As a programmer, that phrase tends to raise my blood pressure. But it depends on how they structure their data but since all the elements are already related, it should be easy to query them all together. I bet they’ve abandoned it more because the query UI is a bit dense for most. But nothing that could be replaced with a simple textbox that could take any combination of cast/crew/titles and find anything that matches the combination. But they might need to add some specific indexing that would use up additional resources.

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          16 hours ago

          As a programmer, that phrase tends to raise my blood pressure.

          Completely understandable. But it really is quite similar to an excel macro that I used to use for a job. The source information is obviously different and I could see it being difficult to readily access, but I figure if someone can program something similar in excel, it can’t be that complicated… perhaps that’s just as loaded a phrase. I am familiar enough with excel to realize that I don’t actually understand how functional it is, lol.

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        I’m sure some AI cuck will steal that idea and act like he’s god for creating it with vibe coding.

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        I’m guessing Amazon bought them and dicked everything up.

        Guessing, I have no idea if that’s true but it would add up.

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          17 hours ago

          Pretty much, closed forums, removed or paywalled features. Right now, they are on yet another iteration of dumbing down the UI to the point of being nearly useless.

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            15 hours ago

            It’s sad that all I needed to do was know that Amazon bought them and put the rest together based on a long list of shit they just ruined.

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