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by superasn 2868 days ago
That is a pretty amazing site! Can't download anything right now which makes me think It would make it a lot easier if instead of a downloadable software it was being offered as a saas site.
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Thank you! It could not be free if it was a website because calculating the recommendations uses quite a lot of CPU. It's fine when run on each user's computer, but it would require expensive servers to make all the calculations for everyone, with a risk of congestion.

There's a website named criticker.com which gives great movie recommendations, but you'll see that they have problems handling all the calculations. You'll literally see the recommendations being slowly generated, and updates are a problem when you rate more movies.