Letterboxd

I love letterbox. It’s the perfect place for myself and all of my film nerd friends too stay on top of what one another is watching and to check out new things! It would be so much better however if the comment section was visible and scrollable right under the review. As of now you need to press on to another page in order to get to the comments under review, I think that people would be much more likely to post more on letterbox if comments were enabled. Also no problem if they want to disable comments under their reviews. Another idea I had was to add audible narration! Some of my friends have really long reviews and though I do want to hear their thoughts, it’s a lot easier to just listen to it. Just a button on the side giving the option to listen to a review from a computerized voice would suffice! If you want to take this the extra mile: create scrollable movie reviews. Everyone’s feed can be scrolled vertically, This could make for a much more intuitive and efficient UI. Making people want to spend more time on it instead of clicking all around on peoples movie titles and then reading what they have to say

As a Patron User of two years and passionate film fan I’ve spent countless hours perfecting the aesthetic visual design of my profile by customizing my posters to fit my taste. TMDB has set themselves on a vendetta of late against posters they deem “fan art” regardless of whether this is even true or not and Letterboxd has stopped storing such deleted artwork on their site as a result. Letterboxd needs to find a way to give its Patrons a means to upload custom posters to their own profiles directly from their website and stop relying on the whim of the Movie Database to govern our choices, this will enable users such as myself to show our love for cinema in a deeper way and connect better with the Letterboxd community. I understand there’s been mention of supposed copyright issues involved, which is not a subject I hold much knowledge about, but I don’t see how Letterboxd could be held liable for Users simply decorating their personal profiles with posters they’ve customized or enjoy the most. I’m not a great artist, but I’ve taken pride in the art of collection. Collecting posters on my profile is my form of self expression and it feels like it’s becoming stripped again as a result of TMDB. There needs to be a way to resolve this.

I cannot sing the praises of this app enough! I love it so much and it came at a great time in my life because just as I found myself getting more and more invested in film and whatnot a friend of mine introduced me to it. I’m a big fan of the idea of being able to write reviews as well as rate movies and denote whether or not you liked them. The app/website as a whole is a great experience and I wish more of my friends would get it. The only thing I would suggest is that you guys implement an ability to turn on notifications for when certain accounts have certain interactions. For instance, I would like to be able to turn on notifications on my friend’s account so I can know when she writes a review, adds a movie to her watch list, has just seen a movie, or even just rated it. If you guys could add this feature I think it’d go a long way and people would like doing that with some of the more notable users on the app or even just their followers/following. Beyond that though, like I said I absolutely love the app and have next to no complaints about it!