[JoshTriplett]

A few quick observations:

At one point, the text at the top started saying "Rate NaN movies".

You seem to start off with extremely popular movies. Those movies seem unlikely to generate a range of ratings. You might consider starting off with movies that a large number of people have rated but which polarize people, which would help differentiate people sooner and improve the quality of the circles.

At one point the "I didn't see this movie" links became french: "Je n'ai pas vu ce film".

In one category, I hit "I didn't see this movie", and later the same movie showed up in another category.

I found it slightly odd that the rating scale goes from 0.5 to 5 stars, rather than 0 to 5 stars.

I rated all the films deegr showed in the first batch, and they all disappeared, but now I don't see an obvious next step. The rotating deegr explanation banners at the top mention something about "refine your search after rating a few movies", and shows an icon for that, but I don't see that icon anywhere in the interface. I finally found that clicking on the "Deegr Circle" dropdown, then "Deegr Circle" under that, led me to something useful.

Once I get to the mode showing a circle of other people, I don't see any options for "I haven't seen this film" anymore.

Once you start recommending a circle of people, and recommending other films liked in that circle, that encourages rating those films too, which seems unlikely to change the circle.

I'd love to see an explanation of the name. Best guess: modified form of "dig"?

[Guillaumedm]

Thanks a lot Josh, that's some heavy feedback.

We'll take some time this week to search & fix the translations you reported.

As for the mainstream recommendation, I've edited the original post: we'll soon let you users get rid of mainstream recommendations in a single click.

Regarding the scale starting at 0 instead of 0.5, that's because you have to give them a .5, that's for several reasons: for example, you wouldn't know if you've rated the movie a 0 or not when clicking somewhere left of the stars. Also we think it's more disgraceful to get a 0.5 than a 0. And other reasons.

Regarding "but now I don't see an obvious next step.", this sounds weird; you should normally have been redirected to a search result (a Circle) straight out of rating 5 movies, no more. Isn't that what happened?

There's no other "I haven't seen this movie" once you land your first search Circle, because there's no point. Either you haven't seen it and it stays as a recommendation (which you can add to your deegList), or you really don't want to see it and you can therefore Mute it with the "-" sign.

Yep, deegr, derived from digging. It's quick, catchy, simple, easy to type and to say... And it was available :/

[JoshTriplett]

I don't think an option to hide mainstream recommendations does quite what I want. That would help when looking for more out-of-the-way hidden gems for recommendations, but it doesn't help when trying to rate films I've seen to improve the quality of my circle. I'd still suggest that you propose rating movies that polarize people heavily, as a partitioning technique. This works both in the general case (show me movies that many people rated, but which get both very high and very low ratings frequently), and in the specific case based on the contents of your circle (help me rate movies that would differentiate me from members of my current circle, not just movies that would reinforce my circle).

As for 0.5 versus 0, fair enough; it just seemed a bit quirky. :)

> Regarding "but now I don't see an obvious next step.", this sounds weird; you should normally have been redirected to a search result (a Circle) straight out of rating 5 movies, no more. Isn't that what happened?

Nope; I kept rating movies, until eventually all of the initial sets of films disappeared, and nothing else happened.

> There's no other "I haven't seen this movie" once you land your first search Circle, because there's no point. Either you haven't seen it and it stays as a recommendation (which you can add to your deegList), or you really don't want to see it and you can therefore Mute it with the "-" sign.

Fair enough. However, I wonder: do you take "mute" into account when doing recommendations, or just hide films? In particular, I see a number of films for which I could either rate them 0.5 ("I can tell from the trailer that this will suck") or mute them ("I guess I should reserve judgement, but I don't ever want to see it").

One more misplaced translation: "Retour en haut".

[Guillaumedm]

Polarizing the ratings seems like a nice way to quickly make them go their own way, indeed. With our algorithm, rating 'not popular' movies works just as well actually; but maybe we should also show movies people shoulDN'T like? I had given thoughts about it, but the layout is already kind of 'full', so it's not very easy. We'll definitely look into it though; thanks a lot.

No, we don't currently take into consideration movies that have been muted or added to the deegList, but just like the polarization, we've already given thoughts about it (especially for this) and will probably take it into account in the next algorithm update. Thanks again ;)

[JoshTriplett]

You might find this useful: http://times.usefulinc.com/2007/03/06-sparklines

Note the second and third cases under "middle ranking". That seems like a category of films you should present to help add more nuance to a user's ratings and circle.