July 2026 update

July 9, 2026 [Link]

✨ Highlights

• Redesigned the Followers page, which now also shows who you're following
  Also: made follower lists public and clickable from profiles. The list of users you are following is still private.

🛠️ Fixes and Improvements

• Activated the monthly newsletter for users who have enabled it from the Settings page
• Improved original language detection for both movies and shows
  Titles with incomplete metadata now get it right more often, and English films made by overseas studios don't get flagged incorrectly.
• Set an exception for the Show localized titles toggle: movies and shows produced in your own language are always localized
• Broadened the popularity slider so every notch now includes more titles (~7,700 movies with default values)
• Addressed the recency bias that rewards new releases and returning series
  Every title's average rating now eases in over its first year and settles as it ages.
• Refined many UI elements that didn't look quite right on mobile resolutions
• Published a new entry to the FAQ page
• Fixed titles sinking in popularity because of repeated discovery skips from guest accounts
• Fixed your own language sometimes going missing from the discovery language filter
• Fixed imports from Trakt, Simkl, MyAnimeList, and TMDB failing to match obscure titles with low popularity

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Beta 4

June 23, 2026 [Link]

✨ Highlights

• Retuned the discovery queue so it leans on well-known titles until your taste profile is stable
• Reworked the 'Include anime (JP)' discovery filter into a broader 'Include animation'
  You can still enable the Japanese original language filter if you want to filter for anime specifically.
• Locked down the server against malicious bots and aggressive scrapers
  I suspect these were only round 1 and 2, but for now performance should be better and the slowdowns are gone.
  Sorry if you had to click a box. To give you an idea of what was happening, check this 15-minutes chart from Cloudflare.

🛠️ Fixes and Improvements

• Extended 95% of the website's functionality to unregistered users
  Your friends can now immediately follow you and send/receive recommendations while on guest accounts.
• Redesigned the discovery page so that everything important is visible on page load
• Added the watchlist toggles (watching now, TV series, in theaters, rewatch...) to Party Mode views
• Added a watchlist source filter to the Party Mode sidebar
  So you can show titles that are on any of your group's watchlists (the default), only on yours, or on every member's.
• Added a "watched X/Y" counter to /actors, /directors, and /franchises pages
• Improved the actors pages so each title now shows the role they played, along with the character's name
• Reranked the top directors and franchises pages by total number of reviews
• Moved the discovery sliders (popularity and release date) to the sidebar, below the other filters
• Clarified the step-by-step instructions for importing your ratings from external sites
• Added a checkmark next to watchlist entries available on streaming services you're subscribed to
• Optimized cover loading on ranked lists, profiles, and search pages so they feel a lot snappier
• Fixed brand-new releases riding early hype to the top of the rankings
  A title's score now eases in over its first year as its rating settles, so the charts reflect how it actually holds up.
• Fixed imported "watched" movies sometimes vanishing into thin air
  They were added retroactively where possible. Please check your watchlist to confirm.
• Fixed untracked TV series still generating feed events and calendar entries
• Fixed the discovery queue getting stuck on an endless loading spinner after using the browser's Back button
• Fixed imports skipping films with ambiguous release year (festival preview vs official release)
• Fixed Party Mode filters resetting your sidebar dropdown choices every time you used them
• Fixed search so single-character titles like '9' and 'X' can finally be found
• Fixed the release decade chart and its filter arrows cutting off at the 1970s

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Beta 3

June 18, 2026 [Link]

✨ Highlights

• Adjusted the rating scale based on how people actually use ratings
  Some of the words were way off, so we have a new Hated to Loved scale and most labels shifted by one notch.
  Note: for sorting/recommendation purposes, the underlying values haven't changed. I will likely allow custom labels in a future update.
• Added an Include anime (JP) toggle to the discovery sidebar, separate from Include foreign movies
• Added a watchlist widget that rounds up new episodes from the series you've either reviewed or marked Watching
  It's on a dedicated page on mobile. And yes, there are rollback options in case you fatfinger something.
• Reworked the popularity and release date sliders so they now filter out titles entirely (discovery queue only)
  They used to assign score multipliers, which is still how the Watchlist is sorted.

🛠️ Fixes and Improvements

• Removed the experimental Trust the algorithm slider from discovery sorting
  The new defaults should work well for everyone, but I'll consider reintroducing it for power users once things are stable.
• Made the Back button on mobile close the menu or any open sidebar before leaving the page
• Added decade grouping to profile reviews, so you can browse and filter by 1990s, 2000s etc.
• Changed Party Mode to display movies and series in anyone's watchlist by default
• Improved how accurately 18+ titles get flagged, so more adults-only content stays out of discovery by default
• Published a new entry to the FAQ page
• Fixed TV shows getting quietly skipped when importing from Criticker, IMDb, Trakt, or TMDB
• Fixed Amazon Prime Video and Paramount+ going missing from the streaming filters in several regions
• Fixed Party Mode showing no results or wrong watchlist labels for some users
• Fixed new profile pictures not showing up after uploading them

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Beta 2

June 13, 2026 [Link]

✨ Highlights

• Extended the import functionality to TV Time, Simkl, MyAnimeList, TMDB, and Criticker
  Note: some titles from MyAnimeList won't match, because we're relying on third-party mapping to TMDB.
• Added a Streaming Services section to the Settings page
  New Feed alerts, on by default, will let you know when a movie or series you're tracking lands on one of the services you subscribe to.
• Added original language and streaming service filters to the Explore by Tag page
  So you can dig up the best crime movies on Prime Video or the best Korean thrillers, not just genre pairs.

🛠️ Fixes and Improvements

• Enabled the FAQ page, similar to GamesGraph's, with 15 initial entries
• Tuned how we calculate review scores for lesser-known movies
  So films with only a few hundred ratings no longer get nudged toward a bland average and can finally look terrible again.
• Added convenient Add to Watchlist buttons next to live search previews and rankings
• Added new-trailer Feed events (with a Watch link) for movies in your watchlist and series you're following
• Added writer credits to movie and series pages, shown right before the director
• Fleshed out actor pages with a proper bio, birth and death dates, birthplace, and a link to their IMDb profile
• Improved screenshots so clicking one opens it full-screen right on the page (with tap/click to dismiss)
• Redesigned the search results page with cleaner cards and a more compact header section
• Retuned the Most Polarizing ranking so it shows genuinely divisive films most people have actually seen
• Added maturity ratings (preferring regional ones, with fallback to US) next to the runtime on movie pages
• Added a little flag next to foreign movies and series, with the original title on hover
• Added Bluesky and Letterboxd fields to user profiles
• Optimized how pages load by delaying background art and off-screen covers
• Fixed the watchlist sidebar sometimes displaying incorrect counters for "TV Series" and "In theaters"
• Fixed the GDPR data export so it doesn't include game-shaped leftovers from GamesGraph
• Fixed minor issues with the display and ordering of search results