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scifireviewed.com

33 pointskheruc31 comments

Sites like these rise and fall on two things: the delivery of the content, and the quality of the content. The delivery here is top notch, I found it very easy to navigate and get the information I wanted. I know your community is small right now, but the quality of the reviews I have read is excellent. I added a few reviews of my own and I hope that the quality stays high as your community grows. Good luck!

Thanks for the comments and reviews!

Can you allow sorting of movies by rating? That's what I'd need to use it as a discovery engine.

This will be done later. The site is new and not many movies are rated yet. We don't plan to add critic ratings, only ratings by site members.

Even with a small number of movies not having sort by rating is annoying. I recommend you rush the feature in some form.

Agreed. It was the very first thing I looked for.

Even if there aren't enough ratings to be meaningful, seeing movies higher up or lower down than fans think they should be will encourage them to jump in and 'fix' things. :)

The possibility to sort movies by ratings, number of reviews, number of views and title has been included now: http://scifireviewed.com/movies

Nice site! The content shines through, so I immediately got excited. Two suggestions... On the movie detail page, please put the trailer above the fold. That's what I came for. As well, possible to include links to Netflix so I can stream/order it?

Thanks for the suggestions. We'll add links to Netflix. Putting the trailer above the fold is something we can consider if many people will want that.

@kheruc I know it's a side project, but I own sfmdb.com - was going to use it for something totally different that will probably never happen now, but it's not a bad name for your site - happy to give it to you if interested?

:O You're just going to give away a five-letter .com domain?

are they valuable?

Short domain names are hard to get on account of there being fewer possible combinations. Finding a short domain that meshes with your application is definitely valuable, since it is easier to remember and type. We can debate whether or not a five letter domain counts as short, but I'd say it's valuable to someone who wants to make money. Certainly a good deal at $0.

To someone who has built something related to it and fully intends to run with it, yeh. I bought that domain with every intention to build something myself but am fully absorbed with something else... would love to see it put to good use, I fucking hate squatters :)

Thanks for the offer, but it's not necessary. If it was just a "sci-fi movie database" site, your domain would be good, but I plan to extend the site to sci-fi tv shows and books as well, so I'm happy with the current domain.

Would be awesome to have a site like this but for Sci-fi TV Shows.

Anyway I love the site, in particular the genre filter. It's been bookmarked. Good job!

Just one suggestion, I like watching trailers on the Apple site, so a link to that would be epic.

Thanks for the suggestions, including sci-fi tv shows is also in plans. I'll look into adding links to apple site.

Should show ratings in the movie directory pages, instead of just on the movie details pages.

How about taking votes on movies we'd like to see made?

[My entry: Consider Phlebas]

Ha, this is already on the todo list! We plan to add best sci-fi books as well and it will be interesting to see which books visitors will most want to see made as movies.

Cool idea! Are you using IMDB API?

Thanks! We're using TMDb API, but all data is manually checked for accuracy. For now we are focusing on quality sci-fi movies and there aren't too many of them :)

Nice! Keep 'em coming! :-)

enders game?! had no idea this classic was coming :) Awesome site btw! Care to give any details on how you built it what stack?, I always find that part interesting :)

I love it. It was exactly what I was looking for.

Thanks! This is what I was looking for as well and I decided to build it :)

How did you build your search for this?

No sort by rating?

This make the site utterly useless and pointless, the cool of review sites like this is see new good movies that you did not watch.

Before we launched the site, there were no ratings so it seemed pointless to add sorting by ratings. We're already getting quality reviews and ratings and sorting options will be added soon.

Not having a sort by feature does not seem like a show-stopper. Prioritising features is difficult, and getting a site out and seeing how users interact with it is crucial.

My reaction: The site's design is incredible. Navigation is intuitive and the information easy to read / digest. Great job!

Suggestion 1: I think the homepage could benefit from a mission statement. Perhaps a thin, elegant banner located beneath the search and above the 'Recently Premiered SciFi Movies' header.

Suggestion 2: Add 'Latest Reviews' to your main navigation.

Best of luck!

Sorting by rating is possible now.

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