Letterboxd needs to implement an automated system that can notify users when a film they have watched, logged or added to a list is removed from the website.

Sometimes, titles are removed from Letterboxd only to be added back, such as the 'Kenzo World' commercial. If I remember correctly, several hundred viewers had logged the ad when it first released on YouTube, including myself. It was only when I downloaded my Letterboxd archive that I noticed the film's URL field in the .csv file was empty, meaning it had probably been removed from Letterboxd at some point and was no longer in my profile. I then searched for it on the site, and found the title was actually still on Letterboxd, but now with only very few people who had marked it as watched. It's possible that the second 'Kenzo World' title was an entirely different entity, but notifying users that a title they have watched has been removed allows them to appeal against its removal or make a note of it so they can keep an eye out for its return in the future. If you are feeling extra generous, you could even create a private page that shows a user all the titles they have watched that are no longer on the site, and provide a link to their TMDb pages :-)

The same goes for users who create large, comprehensive lists on the site. If any title is removed from Letterboxd, many list creators have to cross-check the entire list to find the missing title, like LB user Jayce Fryman had to do with his 'TSPDT Starting List'.

I think this would be a very useful notification feature to have that users can opt in for as Letterboxd continues to grow, so I hope you will consider it.

The Watched Films page doesn't have a search box...and I wish it did. It would make it awesome.

I want to be able to go to my watched films page and type in, "genre:horror" and see a list of all the horror films I've seen, so I can actually answer the question, "what's the best horror movie you've ever seen?"

I want to be able to type in, "of the dead" and see all the films I've seen that have "of the dead" in their title.

I want to be able to type in "year:1959" to find out what movies I've seen that were released in 1959. Or even "year:1959-1969" for a range of years.

Lastly, when I've completely forgotten the name of something, I want to be able to type in something crazy like, "genre:horror year:1959-1969 flowers" and have the results come back with, "Oh, you mean the Horror film Day of the Triffids from 1962 in which giant walking flowers eat people? Here you go."

This would be really awesome. Seriously.

P.S. It doesn't actually have to formulate it's responses like I did, it could say something way more computer-y like, "Day of the Triffids (1962) matched tags: horror flowers 1962". You know.

TMDb regularly gets in the way of my enjoyment of Letterboxd. My Watchlist is mostly made up of new releases. They’re added to my list when I see the trailer, which is usually in advance of their release. Nine times out of ten, TMDb doesn’t yet have the movie listed, which means I have to go through the somewhat laborious process of adding it myself, and then wait several hours for Letterboxd to be able to see it. (The same thing usually happens when I want to add a festival screening to my Film Diary.) Meanwhile, every piece of information TMDb has or asks for is already available on IMDb, making TMDb a completely redundant experience that offers no additional value. Does IMDb not have an API that Letterboxd can use? I can’t imagine anyone but the most neurotic users going through this much hassle, and it seems like more than an edge case.

I'm slowly adding 20 years' worth of film logs, working backward from the present. This makes the most sense for various reasons (in that it's gonna take me close to a year to finish at my pace of a month per day), but it causes a rating problem.

Example: I saw MARGARET a third time and my rating went up from 4 to 4.5. That got logged first. Working back to last September when I saw it the other two times, I accurately logged those ratings as 4. But right now your default rating seems to be whatever the most recent rating is, even in cases where that rating chronologically precedes others. So then I have to go change the rating back.

It should be a simple fix to have the default rating be the most chronologically recent one rather than the most recently added one.

Add to the Home page an area where we have a list of upcoming films in our watchlist. The movies in this section would be the ones that could trigger notifications on the app, since they are the closest to the current date.

Adding them to the home would give us a very quick update to remind us to go catch a movie, which may not be necessary for blockbusters but is ideal when talking about small films that won't get a lot of weeks on screens or a big marketing push.

I know the site has an 'Upcoming' page, but it doesn't appear to be too personalized. We have to look for the filter 'In your watchlist', and then filter by Release Date/Earliest First, to get to something similar to what I'm thinking about. Clicking a 'See more' button after the 5-10 results in the widget I'm suggesting would just redirect us to the current 'Upcoming' section with the filters I mentioned already applied.

On the "People" page, just make it so we can sort the overall list of people by the # of films they've watched or reviewed, maybe the region of the world they are in (once that is more integrated into the site), etc. When I go to the people page I keep seeing the same set of "popular" users and it kind of becomes a feedback loop that prevents me from finding other users to follow except randomly through reviews/comments.

(The best way to sort people by would be a "% compatibility" option, if that is ever built on the site).