Comment by arkitaip | Hacker News Reader

Comment by arkitaip | Hacker News Reader

I love recommendation engines so your service sounds really interesting. Some impressions:

* I LOVE that you don't require a sign-up to get started. The fact that I can start rating right off the front page is equally good.

* I don't grok how the right side "Recommendation Summary" widget works. I rate stuff and they... disappear? Wait, aren't these supposed to be recommendations in the first place? So where are the ratings (starts)? Also, what's the relation between this widget and the content to the left (my "circle")?

* To the left, I'm seeing some dude's ratings. Maybe you should change the graphics for dude's ratings and my ratings? Because both are in blue.

* As I mention I already use several recommendation engines. I would really love to submit my Criticker profile page and have the ratings imported. Because you know I have spent hours rating stuff over the course of several years.

* I don't see the purpose of "You both rated : (20)" In the left content pane. Also, it takes up a lot of visual space.

* This is pretty fun to use.

* Some of the UI - sub-items of the Movies tab; the hover for the Register link - are still in French.

* I've seen most of the recs I'm getting. Again, if there was a way to import ratings from other sites it would make a huge difference.

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.

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