[kpandit]

I can only give you a datapoint but unfortunately no advice

1. I never discovered any movie on IMDB. I go to IMDB to find trivia, cast or some other fact about a movie that I somehow already knew of.

2. My interest in an open source project will not be influenced by its popularity or any other metrics but purely by what it means to me. I submitted my first PR to an open source project not because it is popular but because it lacked something I needed.

P.S. Thanks to all the nice people who generously contribute to OSS and offer their work for free. Hats off and respect.

[poisonborz]

I discovered gazillions of movies on Imdb, actually it's my primary resource. Through either the "more like this" carousel on a movie, or by filtered search (eg. best rated 50s comedy with at least 15k reviews).

[SCUSKU]

The best resource for me on IMDb is definitely just the lists of "Top 250 Movies of all Time"[1] or the "Top 50 $GENRE Movies of All Time" [2].

@OP: Maybe just finding a way to curate the most popular open source libraries into lists per language, framework, etc would be helpful? For example, for me I'm not particularly interested in all open source projects, but I'm really interested in Django stuff. Hence why I love looking at the awesome-django curated list [3]. Maybe an application to just rank all packages for a given ecosystem? Just spitballing.

[1]: https://www.imdb.com/chart/top/ [2]: https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature&genres... [3]: https://github.com/wsvincent/awesome-django

[magicalhippo]

I use it to discover new movies, though mostly by drilling down into cast and crew, see what other projects they've worked on.

Was thinking this "ossdb" could work similarly.

[anonzzzies]

I have to read the reviews; I do that for restaurants as well; the ratings don’t mean so much to me personally; people often up and down vote on a whim and emotion (just in a bad mood) so reading why they (particularly) didn’t like something tells me if I would like it.

[nyaahilist]

I always take movie reviews with a grain of salt depending on the genre. Horror & Comedy ALWAYS get the harshest critics. Horror especially, but honestly unless the IMDB is above a 7 or Rotten Tomatos gives it like 85-100 I leave it up to my own personal judgement. I love watching just about anything if the story is interesting (and I find just about anything & everything interesting so that doesn't leave much off the table)... I've gotten off topic though lol.

TLDR you can't always trust reviews (or peoples tastes). If the Trailer & synopsis hooks ya why not give it a shot when you can always just stop watching if it doesn't pan out.

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Now as far as an IMDB for open source, I'd say maybe even go so far as doing a Letterboxd type deal? When it comes to opensource projects it always helps to hear what the users are saying about it.

[nine_k]

To counter your points (all valid):

- I did discover interesting movies on IMDB. It was more by chance though, while looking up info on known movies.

- Popularity of a piece of OSS may be important when choosing to use it for an org. Something alive and widely used has better chances of survival in the future, and/or speed of reaction to security incidents.

That said, I agree that IMDB is not what I'd like the directory of OSS to resemble. I'd rather go after imitating tvtropes.

[mcmoor]

Hmm, what would tv tropes for OSS projects looks like?

[saurik]

Like the other reply, I also find movies in IMDB and it is also my "primary" source, though I use it differently: I generally want to watch movies in clusters of who's involved, so I will watch a movie I ended up thinking was amazing and then want to see more movies by the same director or starring the same actors, etc.

[InexSquirrel]

Interesting. I use IMDB as a filter, for score and synopsis. I rarely find new movies there (find recommendations elsewhere), but I basically filter anything out that sits below a 7, or include anything 6+ if it's in a genre I happen to like. I suppose I could use rotten tomatoes for that too.

[haunter]

Not on IMDB but discovered a lot on Letterboxd, it's my primary source for new films

[cs02rm0]

My behaviour is similar.

But that doesn't mean it couldn't change if something different were available that gave some (unspecified) advantage.

[_giorgio_]

I discovery movies only on torrent sites.

Imdb is quite good if you're just looking for the best 100 movies ever made.

[antifa]

What torrent sites are best for discovery?

[Scrounger]

> I never discovered any movie on IMDB. I go to IMDB to find trivia, cast or some other fact about a movie that I somehow already knew of.

Then you're clearly using IMDB wrong.

IMDB is owned by Amazon, therefore, their recommendation algorithms are quite good.

And like Amazon, if you create an account and feed it data about your preferences and wishlists, these recommendations get better over time.

I've discovered countless new movies and TV shows I wouldn't have discovered otherwise thanks to IMDB.

[tomcam]

> IMDB is owned by Amazon, therefore, their recommendation algorithms are quite good.

Amazon user since day 1 or thereabouts. Their recommendation algorithm has never ever been useful to me. Anecdata, I know.

[travoc]

“I see you just watched Goodfellas. Here are six more links to the movie called Goodfellas.”