PSA: Box Office Mojo Redesign ... Numbers Saves The Day With Theater Counts

[hasanahmad]

Fuck you Jeff bezos

fuck you 

 

first you killed IMDb forums 

 

then you do this 

 

fuck you

[redfirebird2008]

1 hour ago, Wrath said:

Discovered the change by accident this afternoon.

 

Yikes.

 

Same here, just ran into it this evening. Awful. For anyone that likes to dig into the numbers, the new site is pretty damn hard to navigate. 

[Water Bottle]

It's too late to save BOM. But the BOT community will prevail one way or another. They shut down our forums, we create our own forums (and then we went to a magazine's website then they kicked us but now we pay our own way). They killed the derby, we created our derby. The contributions our forum members make is impressive. Don't doubt the power and will of the box office theory community.

[Cooper Legion]

29 minutes ago, FTF said:

Holy shit is the new site horrible!  This is fucking depressing.  

 

We'll always have this though, they can't take away the past at least!

 

https://web.archive.org/web/20191023033914/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/

 

17 minutes ago, DAJK said:

literally SAME, at least three times today I subconsciously went to BOM

 

"what did Training Day gross adjusted again?"

 

"what did Enemy of the State gross adjusted?"

 

"How many theatres is Addams Family in?"

 

Nothing mandatory to get through the day or anything, but it's scary how much I took the site for granted, and how much of an adjustment this is going to be. 

THIS, so much. Everytime I try to absently look up something historical, it's like a fresh kick in the teeth when the page starts loading.

[Dementeleus]

13 minutes ago, keysersoze123 said:

Plus getting rid forums was a terrible idea that showed they dont want any feedback or visitor engagement.🙂

Don’t disagree about any of this. But I reiterate that taking a step back from the numbers is probably best for all of us. 

[filmlover]

34 minutes ago, Plain Old Tele said:

But then again, I’ve probably visited BOM like 3-4 times since April. 

So glad to see you're taking a stand alongside Marty and all these other old guys about how tentpoles are ruining theaters. When's the Netflix denouncement coming?

[Water Bottle]

1 minute ago, filmlover said:

So glad to see you're taking a stand alongside Marty and all these other old guys about how tentpoles are ruining theaters. When's the Netflix denouncement coming?

 

They canceled No Good Nick. Those bastards.

[BoxOfficeFangrl]

 

 

[scabab]

They've completely fucked a good thing that worked and worked easy and well.

 

I just wanted to see Arnold Schwarzenegger's box office history and also to see the inflation list for them and that's all gone. It just wants me to go to IMDB Pro.

 

Things like checking out the franchise's for Marvel or James Bond and seeing how they rank and also with inflation and worldwide...gone.

 

They just couldn't leave something alone when it was fine. 

[Xftg123]

Man, what's even going to happen to the future of Charting With Dan. I enjoy that show, but now that everything from BOM's old site is gone and has been placed into a paywall, it makes me wonder how it'll continue as the weeks go by.

[Dementeleus]

Do you guys remember what happened on October 10, 2014?

[Xftg123]

I was going to say, since the site has pretty much stayed the same for 20 years with some changes here and there, is it possible to revive the old code/UI or is it impossible to do so?

[charlie Jatinder]

Well IMDB snapped, with half the data gone, we are going in past to get data, perhaps they will go the plan Thanos go forwards with and then comes BoT, The Numbers, BoR, BO Pro, Rth, and well few others out of portals. Dun dun dun.

[Xftg123]

@Plain Old Tele I wasn't around there for it, but I found info regarding it:

 

Quote

In 2014, Box Office Mojo unexpectedly disappeared from the Internet, with the site’s URL redirecting to IMDb’s box office page. After a massive backlash, the site was restored the next day without explanation from Amazon or IMDb.

....Could this actually happen again this year?

[Dementeleus]

Just now, Xftg123 said:

@Plain Old Tele I wasn't around there for it, but I found info regarding it:

 

....Could this actually happen again this year?

No. They don’t care. 

[grim22]

5 minutes ago, Plain Old Tele said:

Do you guys remember what happened on October 10, 2014?

That wasn't a redesign that ruined everything. That was just taking the site offline.

[Xftg123]

@Charlie Jatinder Obligatory

 

[Dementeleus]

Just now, grim22 said:

That wasn't a redesign that ruined everything. That was just taking the site offline.

They redirected to IMDB. Then they stopped the redirect. 

[Porthos]

Just now, Xftg123 said:

@Plain Old Tele I wasn't around there for it, but I found info regarding it:

 

....Could this actually happen again this year?

Doubtful. The backend data is surely still there.  But money and resources were obviously poured into the redesign and unlike flipping a switch back on, companies are loath to admit they made a mistake.  Sunk Cost fallacy and all that.

 

At most, they might listen to some of the complaints and bring back functionality, but I doubt it.

 

I won't say it's impossible.  But it'd require them to flush the money they spent on the redesign down the drain AND spend money/time/resources on a different redesign as it's pretty obvious they want to upgrade the way it looks/underlying security.

[Dementeleus]

2 minutes ago, Porthos said:

Doubtful. The backend data is surely still there.  But money and resources were obviously poured into the redesign and unlike flipping a switch back on, companies are loath to admit they made a mistake.  Sunk Cost fallacy and all that.

 

At most, they might listen to some of the complaints and bring back functionality, but I doubt it.

 

I won't say it's impossible.  But it'd require them to flush the money they spent on the redesign down the drain AND spend money/time/resources on a different redesign as it's pretty obvious they want to upgrade the way it looks/underlying security.

I’ll say it’s impossible. 🧐

They’re a data aggregator that sells data (among other things). The writing was on the wall since ‘08 (and especially since 2011). We just didn’t wanna see it.