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Match (and compare) members with similar taste

Add a match button to every profile so you can check immediately if somebody has the same taste as you.

You can use the like and/or rating of a movie to produce a list of similar movies/similar profile or a similar %.

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  • Coa Blake commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    How about not only a "match" button/graph on someone page, but a separate page where you can actually find a list of members who share your taste! Now the only accounts that show up on the "members" page are accounts who already have thousands of followers. I've got to randomly go and look at people's pages and it's a hassle. I want to make new friends who share my taste! LB feels very lonely to be honest, haha :)

  • Jiian Francisco commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Still waiting on this update, Letterboxd. The "Fans" feature would be troublesome. Make this easier on us, please. :)

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I don't know that I like this. A fun aspect of LB is that if someone new follows me, etc, I have to go on their profile and actually read their reviews in order to decide to follow them back. I think this feature would discourage reading discourse because you could just immediately see if you "match" with someone, instead of actually engaging with their thoughts. On the other hand, it would be fun to use this on profiles with my IRL friends, but I don't know what the algorithm would be comparing (scope of films seen, or ratings?) because I know some friends and I use way different rating systems.

  • Gurimshoba commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Alternative: add a metric on a person's profile that indicates the degree to which one's taste is similar to theirs. Reason: I use Letterboxd to find people that DON'T agree with my taste as much as I use it for the opposite.

  • Curtis commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Maybe talk to the folks at Rateyourmusic.com, they may be able to share some information with you about their algorithm!

  • Øyvind Michaelsen commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    It's not rocket science, and doesn't have to be perfect. The initial version could be as simple as comparing top scoring movies among users. This is the first step top give useful suggestions to users based on their taste.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I just found the button beside the ratings of a film that says 'FANS' and it gives you a list of people who have the film in their top 4 favourite films list.

  • Ray Rettig commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Very strongly this! Most sites recommendation algorithms are too simplistic and thus worse than useless. I think LetterboxD can have success by users perusing others (written) reviews and agreeing or disagreeing. Boy I would love to help construct this algorithm and im an Engineer so if you need any ideas contact me!

  • Kyle commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This would be such an amazing tool for discovering new films, if Letterboxd would recommend other users with similar taste. Bandcamp has a similar feature that has helped me discover a lot of great music I otherwise wouldn't have found.

  • Garry commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    To echo everyone else: Please keep this feature at the front of the list!
    It's an invaluable feature in my opinion. Being able to get a quick visual idea of similar films with percentages would make the entire following system really shine!

  • Lorenz commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I'd be so glad to have such kind of a feature, to find other users with the exact or almost exact taste like me.

    Now you have to laboriously search for them...

  • anonimo commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I'd love this too, it's basically THE thing that I would like letterboxd to add

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Goodreads.com has this feature. When you click on a person's account, you can then Compare Books. It shows you a Venn Diagram...percentage of how many books you have in common and not in common, percentage of films you have both seen with a similar rating. It's great and has been a feature on their site for years.

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