# When did imdb change format (again)? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 19, 2018, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-imdb-change-format-again/816391 "2018-06-19T18:06:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2018, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-imdb-change-format-again/816391/1 "2018-06-19T18:06:35Z")
I went to look up an actor to see what episode of a show she was in, and the site no longer lists episodes under actor’s credits, just the show itself. For example, I give you [Camille Chen](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0155166/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t12). What episode of the 20 seasons of L&O was she in? Who knows? Why did they do this? It’s like a gigantic step backwards. It’s far worse than when they wanted to remove actresses’ birthdays. It’s like they don’t want to be useful anymore, except as a place to stick movie ads. Content matters! It’s not just the stuff between commercials! ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2018, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-imdb-change-format-again/816391/2 "2018-06-19T18:16:06Z")
That’s crazy. I loved the old format - this new one is nearly useless. By googling the character name “Emma Kim” and “Law and Order” I was able to find that the episode she was in was “Just a Girl in the World” ["Law & Order" Just a Girl in the World (TV Episode 2009) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1497512/) but that was not as easy as it should be (and used to be). ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2018, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-imdb-change-format-again/816391/3 "2018-06-19T18:18:40Z")
The site seems to be losing ground to Wikipedia. Lately, when I want to look up a movie or actor, I find myself going there first. Also, although it was often a troll cave, the IMDB became less interesting when they removed the comments sections. ---
**Author:** ![Ashtura](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ashtura/32/2963_2.png) [@Ashtura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashtura)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2018, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-imdb-change-format-again/816391/4 "2018-06-19T18:35:09Z")
IMDB sucks. I’ll never forgive them for getting rid of their message boards, and Amazon is lucky there are no good alternatives. Try TMDB, it’s not nearly as good as IMDB was in it’s prime, but it’s semi-decent. > **[Camille Chen](https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1218266-camille-chen)** > > Camille Chen is known as an Actor. Some of her work includes Game Night, Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over, Miss Congeniality, Lucifer, The New Guy, American Horror Story, Armstrong, and Grimm. ^ I have no idea if that filmography is accurate. ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2018, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-imdb-change-format-again/816391/5 "2018-06-19T18:36:18Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > For example, I give you [Camille Chen](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0155166/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t12). What episode of the 20 seasons of L&O was she in? Who knows? Cadaver > **[Sort by Year - Latest TV Episodes With Camille Chen - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/filmosearch/?explore=title_type&role=nm0155166&ref_=filmo_nxt&sort=year,desc&mode=detail&page=1&title_type=tvEpisode)** > > IMDb's advanced search allows you to run extremely powerful queries over all people and titles in the database. Find exactly what you're looking for! You go into the “Show By” drop down box to get into the individual episodes (I did it through “Year” and then clicked “TV Episodes”). I imagine they did this because most people don’t care about which individual episode an actor was in. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2018, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-imdb-change-format-again/816391/6 "2018-06-19T19:37:22Z")
Law & Order: Criminal Intent (TV Series) Dr. Maya Zhuang - Cadaver (2011) … Dr. Maya Zhuang Law & Order (TV Series) Emma Kim - Just a Girl in the World (2009) … Emma Kim Not seeing any difference in Chrome. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2018, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-imdb-change-format-again/816391/7 "2018-06-19T19:44:37Z")
Whoh! It’s back to the way it was! WTF? Did we catch it during system maintenance or something? I checked different computers and browsers before I started the thread, just to be sure it wasn’t me. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2018, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-imdb-change-format-again/816391/8 "2018-06-19T19:58:25Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Whoh! It’s back to the way it was! WTF? > > Did we catch it during system maintenance or something? > > I checked different computers and browsers before I started the thread, just to be sure it wasn’t me. Yeah, I checked too and it wasn’t showing the episodes before. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2018, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-imdb-change-format-again/816391/9 "2018-06-20T04:02:34Z")
> [@Legion, season 2 (FX show)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legion-season-2-fx-show/811760/30): > > Thoughts? Just because Farouk is awful doesn’t mean that David isn’t _also_ awful. I’m not interested in faffing around about how one character is better because another character is _even more_ horrible. If this show tries to redeem David’s (essentially) mind-rape of Syd, I’m fucking done with it. I’m mildly interested in seeing how the saga of two awful antagonists and their somewhat inept victims plays out, though. They’ve clearly signaled that David isn’t a hero, even though he’s up against Farouk the villain. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2018, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-imdb-change-format-again/816391/10 "2018-06-20T11:50:00Z")
> [@Lightray](#): > > Just because Farouk is awful doesn’t mean that David isn’t _also_ awful. I’m not interested in faffing around about how one character is better because another character is _even more_ horrible. > > If this show tries to redeem David’s (essentially) mind-rape of Syd, I’m fucking done with it. I’m mildly interested in seeing how the saga of two awful antagonists and their somewhat inept victims plays out, though. They’ve clearly signaled that David isn’t a hero, even though he’s up against Farouk the villain. Wrong thread? ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2018, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-imdb-change-format-again/816391/11 "2018-06-20T12:34:20Z")
> [@Lightray](#): > > Just because Farouk is awful doesn’t mean that David isn’t _also_ awful. I’m not interested in faffing around about how one character is better because another character is _even more_ horrible. > > If this show tries to redeem David’s (essentially) mind-rape of Syd, I’m fucking done with it. I’m mildly interested in seeing how the saga of two awful antagonists and their somewhat inept victims plays out, though. They’ve clearly signaled that David isn’t a hero, even though he’s up against Farouk the villain. Noted. Wrong thread, but noted. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2018, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-imdb-change-format-again/816391/12 "2018-06-20T13:04:01Z")
I don’t know if it makes any difference, but I am always logged into IMDb. I joined about 20 years ago I think, and as far as I can tell I see the page format differently to people not logged in. This isn’t IMDb Pro, btw, which is something else, where they charge a fee and you see contact details and more, which is specifically set up for Industry folk. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2018, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-imdb-change-format-again/816391/13 "2018-06-20T13:18:55Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > The site seems to be losing ground to Wikipedia. Lately, when I want to look up a movie or actor, I find myself going there first. So, I’m not the only one, then? ---
**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2018, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-imdb-change-format-again/816391/14 "2018-06-20T14:23:14Z")
I followed the link in the OP and this is what was posted on IMDb: 2009 Law & Order (TV Series) Emma Kim - Just a Girl in the World (2009) … Emma Kim it still lists the series and the episode that she appeared in. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2018, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-imdb-change-format-again/816391/15 "2018-06-20T17:37:26Z")
> [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](#): > > I followed the link in the OP and this is what was posted on IMDb: > > 2009 Law & Order (TV Series) > Emma Kim > > - Just a Girl in the World (2009) … Emma Kim > > it still lists the series and the episode that she appeared in. It appears to have been just a short-lived display. I was worried somehow the tablet version of imdb had taken over. I can’t even use the site on a tablet, it’s formatted so poorly. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2018, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-imdb-change-format-again/816391/16 "2018-06-20T17:55:08Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > Wrong thread? > [@Mahaloth](#): > > Noted. > > Wrong thread, but noted. 😃 Damn multitab browsing. Tho I don’t even remember reading this thread until today… ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2018, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-imdb-change-format-again/816391/17 "2018-06-21T03:59:45Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Whoh! It’s back to the way it was! WTF? > > Did we catch it during system maintenance or something? > > I checked different computers and browsers before I started the thread, just to be sure it wasn’t me. I noticed the same thing yesterday. I grumbled a bit and carried on. I’m glad it’s been reverted. ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2018, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-imdb-change-format-again/816391/18 "2018-06-21T10:48:13Z")
Does anybody remember that brief period of time IMDB required a credit card number just to verify you were older than 18 to post on their forums or submit reviews?