We’ve been receiving a lot of feedback with Collection and we plan on doing a major update to fix several bugs on July 13th. This update will address the following issues. Please post any bugs/issues/questions or suggestions in the comments for this post.

Issues to be resolved:

• Apostrophes for either saved list name or description breaking loading of collection.
• Options menu/edit overlay not opening on titles with Watched Dates
• Loading time for users collection will be drastically improved
• Activity not being posted on title updates

Additions:

• The ability to add titles right into collection, from collection, no having to leave the page or go to the browse page. Will make adding titles, hopefully much easier.

For those who haven’t entered into the IHM beta testing for the new collection, we’ve put together a bunch of pictures highlighting some of the newer features and design ideas we’ve created for it.  It’s getting closer and closer to completion everyday and so far we’ve received lots of good feedback about it to make sure it’s the best it can be for you all.

A quick highlight of some of the big features of the new collection:

• It’s all done using Ajax.  This means that your entire collection downloads temporarily to your browser when you visit the collection.  Once downloaded you’ll never have to wait for a page to load as each update or change you make happens behind the scenes.
• Lists.  We’re going to introduce a new feature that allows users to create lists of films (or tv shows) in whatever ways they’d like.  This will allow you to share those “best things to watch at 2am” or “movies for first dates” ideas you’ve always wanted to.
• Mass rating :).  Tired of rating films one at a time?  You’ll be able to select as many titles as you want and rate them all at once.
• Mass management.  Tags, deletion, lists, etc. will all be able to be done in a mass mode so that you don’t have to do it on an individual basis.
• New rating tips.  Ever confused on the difference between a 7 and an 8 when it comes to rating?  We’ve setup a guideline to help you know that while a 7 is good, an 8 is great.

Anyway, I don’t want to give away too much from it.  We’ve got some other things up our sleeve and we hope you will all enjoy it.

Those wanting to check out the screenshots of the new collection can visit my flickr page.

We’re going to be splitting out the movie reviews and lists and whatever else that’s unrelated to IHM from this blog into a new blog that we’ve created called the IHM Movieblog (we’re so creative). So, if you’re looking for a blog about movies (which coincidentally will be completely published and written by your fellow IHMers), you should check it out. We’ll be posting news, articles, reviews, lists and whatever else pops into our heads.

Also, if you’ve bookmarked or saved a post from this blog that’s non-IHM related, it will be stripped from this blog in the next few days. You can head over to the new blog to find it and rebookmark it or whatever you trendy kids do.

Also (part II: the awakening of a new beginning), if you’re looking to write about movies or would like to join in on the fun, let me know and we’ll see about getting you in as a writer on the new blog.

Well, we had a little downtime tonight caused by me romping too heavily in the database. Luckily, we were able to smash our heads together and find the solution without losing anything but some time. We apologize for the downtime and anyone who came to our site wishing to rate some movies.

And even though the cat said it, we didn’t lose anything :).

-Mike