Hey, thanks a lot for the boost!
1. Mmmm we should probably change de stars' color when hovering over them, to make people understand that they're in charge atm
2. Yes, I've read that a lot today. My engrish isn't so bad I guess, but it seems like after countless sneezy testings, I've missed a few trads...
3. Again, problem is that we've already focused a lot on movies not people; if we focus even less on the people, then they will almost disappear, and deegr will lose its special ingredient (ie. finding people that are like you).
Maybe you will actually find it useful to find people like you when you can find people like you from your town/age/sex/opposite sex... See what I mean? ^^
Well, since muting is not yet taken into account in the algorithm, there's no point in muting a movie you and someone have in common, or a movie that you would directly make a search for.
It's a possibility, but I doubt so. The current system would be enough I guess, and we've already got a lot to do/manage/fix... Well, actually, you sir just gave us a lot to do ^^
Polarizing the ratings seems like a nice way to quickly make them go their own way, indeed. With our algorithm, rating 'not popular' movies works just as well actually; but maybe we should also show movies people shoulDN'T like? I had given thoughts about it, but the layout is already kind of 'full', so it's not very easy.
We'll definitely look into it though; thanks a lot.
No, we don't currently take into consideration movies that have been muted or added to the deegList, but just like the polarization, we've already given thoughts about it (especially for this) and will probably take it into account in the next algorithm update.
Thanks again ;)
I see what you mean. No one has complained so far among our current users, but you're probably right that it can be annoying. We'll look for a way to fix that issue.
Problem solved is giving people a reason to actually trust the recommendations made by recommendation engines. We have never known why Amazon (IMDb etc) was recommending us some movies rather than some others. There's a very strong algorithm behind these recommendations, but we believe that humanized recommendation engine is better because you can actually ask the person why he/she liked a movie and would recommend it. It's kind of like Aardvark: sometimes you want a person, not a web page, to answer your question.
We'll take some time this week to search & fix the translations you reported.
As for the mainstream recommendation, I've edited the original post: we'll soon let you users get rid of mainstream recommendations in a single click.
Regarding the scale starting at 0 instead of 0.5, that's because you have to give them a .5, that's for several reasons: for example, you wouldn't know if you've rated the movie a 0 or not when clicking somewhere left of the stars. Also we think it's more disgraceful to get a 0.5 than a 0. And other reasons.
Regarding "but now I don't see an obvious next step.", this sounds weird; you should normally have been redirected to a search result (a Circle) straight out of rating 5 movies, no more. Isn't that what happened?
There's no other "I haven't seen this movie" once you land your first search Circle, because there's no point. Either you haven't seen it and it stays as a recommendation (which you can add to your deegList), or you really don't want to see it and you can therefore Mute it with the "-" sign.
Yep, deegr, derived from digging. It's quick, catchy, simple, easy to type and to say... And it was available :/
1. Oh yes we want to push Netflix! We're just a small french project and Netflix has not invaded us as of this date; and is unlikely to do so for sometime, actually. I know what you're talking about and we'll see how/if we can implement it.
2. Well that's a bummer, deegr's all about finding others like you ^^ If we only recommended movies without telling you why you should like them, we'd ressemble every other engine out there! Don't you like knowing you have taste-mates out there?
Hey Josh. We prefer to have registered users than visitors, so that you too can be matched and in order to grow the userbase.
That's why we've put some features only to be used after registration. On top of that, these feats are useless as a visitor; the muting will be forgotten when you come back after 48hrs.
It takes literally no more than 10 seconds to create an account, you should give it a go ;)
Thanks marquis; I've just edited the main message to say that we're already working on a feature that will enable you to remove mainstream movies in a single click.
So please stay tuned, it should be up within a couple of weeks at most :)
Hey Arkitaip, thanks for that review!
So, in order:
* yes thanks, we had "keep it simple" in mind ;)
* 2 and * 3: the left side shows your different matchs' ratings (what they've liked, what they haven't). The right side shows a reorganized summary of all the movies liked by the 30 people whose tastes best match yours. It's all explained when you hover your cursor over the top of that column ;)
* Yes, we've thought about that. I can't tell yet if we're going to work on that soon or not; it would be pretty easy since we've crawled the profiles already, but that's kind of unfair to the other websites, it feels like we'd be stealing profiles - whereas right now, we only reference them.
* 'You both rated' helps you have a quick glance at how well you and the person in question have in common. We've tried without it, and quite frankly, it's better with; juste to know on what kind of movies you both match. The number in parenthesis is the total number of movies in common with similar ratings.
* ^^
* Woopsie! We'll fix that asap!
* Yeah, it's not the first time we're told the Recommendation Summary shows some mainstream movies. Well that's because they've liked a lot, so pragmatically, we HAVE to recommend them; and if you liked/hated them, rate them away!
HOWEVER please note, we're only weeks away from an update that will allow you to hide Mainstream recommendation in a single click, so please be patient!
Thanks again for that full review! And don't forget: the more you rate, the better the accuracy.
Well, we will see how things evolve. You are correct in that it seems like people are more likely to give 5/5's than lower ratings; but I guess that's just one way of matching people: they can be similar in their way of rating things (they could love everything or be big time haters), deegr will match them.
Also, it's not like we can't interpret ratings over 3/5 as thumbs-ups and lower ratings as thumbs-down; we can still change, only time will tell us what the best scale is.
As of now, the current system seems to do a great job.
And yes, of course, we're thinking a lot about implementing it on other websites; we're already working on an API ;)
Maybe you will actually find it useful to find people like you when you can find people like you from your town/age/sex/opposite sex... See what I mean? ^^