Suggestion Mods/Adm: Pre-Order Section - can we get the movies listed by release date

[doctorsteve]

In the Pre-Order Section - can we get the movies listed by release date, rather than in the order they're received? This would make it easier to read chronologically, like the coming soon or new release section of the Home page. Perhaps you could denote New (posted within the last 3-4 days) status by putting "*NEW*" before the title (and I know this is the home of Blu, but maybe even make it *NEW*).

Thanks,

Doc

[dmxoneiuv]

i dont know if this is possible at all, but maybe on the page for each movie it has the summary, review, features, box covers, screenshots, comments, news, and it now shows forums, which is what i was suggesting..that way for each movie, someone could click forum and it would be a semi sub forum/topic related to that movie particularly...this may not help for the movies that dont have a release date yet set or even announced but for the ones that are i think it would be helpful

[ClaytonMG]

But how would that work? You'd end up with the New Release and Coming Soon sections matching the preorder section which would be pointless.

[doctorsteve]

Originally Posted by ClaytonMG

But how would that work? You'd end up with the New Release and Coming Soon sections matching the preorder section which would be pointless.

Whatever differentiates the two sections now would hold true for an update. Coming soon would be for the next 1-4 weeks - Pre-Order Section appears to be for releases beyond that point...

I'm merely suggesting listing the pre-order section chronologically, by release with special 'note' given to the newest pre-order news, so people can easily see which pre-orders are hot off the press.

I understand that's probably the purpose of listing them by newest announced title first, but it makes it all jumbly to get a sense of what is coming out when...

[Deciazulado]

Originally Posted by doctorsteve

I understand that's probably the purpose of listing them by newest announced title first, but it makes it all jumbly to get a sense of what is coming out when...

Well that's what the Coming Soon (and the Apocalist) are there for, Ne?

[doctorsteve]

To me Coming Soon is more of a near-future (as in go to the store in a week or two and buy it on release day), and Preorders are "These are up on Amazon or whatever, so you can put your order in now and they will ship to you when it's released in two months".

I've often tried skimming through the Apocalist thread before to spot newly announced movies, but the damn thing is so choked up all the time - I stopped bothering.

Granted - if Coming Soon incorporated both near-future releases AND newly available Preorders - you'd have a really good look at the schedule for the next couple months, but then folks would still want to be able to see the NEWest additions, and to be able to tell which are available for preorder.

Leaving the sections separate, listed by release date, with a little note to make it easy to see when a NEW addition has been made to the pre-order list - I feel is the way to go.

All I'm suggesting is to list the Pre-orders by release date also (for distant- future clarity) and just note recent additions to the list with the word NEW. (very eye-catching).

Yes? No?

All I can see in the Pre-order section now is a jumble of movies, and all I can assume is that the top-most ones were added the most recently. I think the suggestion I made would do 2 things:

1) Give clarity to the down-the line release schedule.
2) Let readers easily see when something NEW has been added to the slate.

I think this would enhance the home page, and make slogging through the Apocalist unnecessary (especially since it - more often than not - doesn't appear in the top threads listed on the Home page).

Does my suggestion really sound THAT kooky?

Doc

[RUR]

Originally Posted by doctorsteve

In the Pre-Order Section - can we get the movies listed by release date, rather than in the order they're received? This would make it easier to read chronologically, like the coming soon or new release section of the Home page. Perhaps you could denote New (posted within the last 3-4 days) status by putting "*NEW*" before the title (and I know this is the home of Blu, but maybe even make it *NEW*).

I quite like the current setup, since I want to see the movies most recently made available for pre-order. I skim the top of the list and, if I find anything I want to order, I click the link to Amazon and buy it. If I want to know what's being released in chronological order, I can find that in any number of places.

[doctorsteve]

Seems the only one dissenting is me. But I think I'm not making myself clear.

I'll try to elucidate later when I have time...

[Marwin]

Originally Posted by doctorsteve

I wish it could be assumed that if it is Coming Soon (within the next 3-4 weeks) that it's available for Pre-order. If it's not Coming Soon - it should be left back in the Pre-order section.

Unfortunately Amazon is sometimes late in adding titles for pre-order so there's not much we can do about that.

However, you have a point when it comes to the list looking a bit messy. After thinking about it for a while I've just realized that perhaps we should have listed when the pre-order was added instead of when the movie will be released, so I've updated the front page to show "Date added" instead of the "Release date".

[doctorsteve]

An interesting compromise... I think it works!

Cheers - and thanks for being open to suggestion

Doc

(waiting for the rest to throw empty/full beer cans at me...)