i don't want to force you for anything, i don't want to bother as well; i just thought about and presented my thoughts,
(cool) Hector wrote:
As you can see, 3/5 are TV episodes (we don't list TV episodes). There are also a lot of porn movies, video games, and tons of movies that you'll never have a chance to watch because there's no video of them and they never show on TV...
all movies are labeled, categorized ... (TV episodes, porn, games ....it not interest me also) but as far as they are "labeled" they can be filtered very easy and you can keep just the essentials.
Nevergreen wrote:
Our goal is to have the very same database but with added functionality (I assume that due to the fact that we can request only movies with imdb numbers). I'm right till here?
(cool) Hector wrote:
Sorry, but you're wrong, this is not our goal. We don't try to have a database that is exhaustive, we just try to have a database that is good enough.
It'd be foolish to try to replace the IMDb, and it'll never happen. We think that Coollector can be a very useful program as a companion to the IMDb website, not as a replacement. There are many functionalities that you'll only find on the IMDb website (discussion forums, movie goofs, persons biographies, etc, etc...). That's why we provide a direct link to the IMDb pages: because the IMDb will always be an invaluable resource for the movie lovers.
Nevergreen wrote:
why you not simply scan the whole imdb and offers a full database?
(cool) Hector wrote:
Why? Because it's illegal! Their database is their property. They even sell it, it's very expensive, and they don't license the whole database to anyone:
http://www.imdb.com/help/licensing/contacti don't wanna quarrel on this, you are perfectly right and is very good statement for officials ( i don't care and don't wanna know whats going on in "backstage".
as regarding funtionality, this is an app. not a forum/blog/whatever ... its doing it's great job, nothing more and it's do it even offline.
Nevergreen wrote:
But till now we only managed to "register" about 107,000 movies.
(cool) Hector wrote:
It's because we're building our own database, by collecting data from as many sources as we can find, not just from the IMDb. It takes a lot of work, and I can only add several hundred movies each week. It took me many years to build this database, and believe me, 107,000 movies is HUGE!
i'm aware what amount of work needed for such a thing and i'm appreciate your persistence, knowing the fact that this app came out few years ago and it's still alive.
Nevergreen wrote:
why we need 213 pages of requests?
(cool) Hector wrote:
I add movies as they're released in theaters, or in video, or they're shown on TV, etc... To make sure that I didn't forget to add a movie that a user needs, I've allowed movie requests. But even 213 pages of movie requests is only a small fraction of all the movies that I've added. In the past, a couple of times I've had the case of users who browsed the IMDb and systematically requested the movies that were not in our database. As you can imagine, I've had to calm them down, because they requested movies that nobody really cared about (even themselves), and while I added those useless movies I could not add much more popular movies...
owning +3000 movies, i'll probably request few that is in this "useless" category, but due to the fact that i own it, ill want to have it in "my" list
(cool) Hector wrote:
Recently, programming has taken a lot of my time, and you might have noticed that I'm a bit late with adding popular movies. I should catch up in the following weeks, and to make sure you can request the movies that you're missing.
time it's not a problem as long we know that you are alive and not forgotten us.
PS. somehow i have the feelings that this kind of discussions are better fit to private messages, so, you are free to delete/hide it and continue on private messages.