UX enhancement - Unify the search box
Summary : Users are dumb, help them and reduce the simkl teams support workload.
The vast majority of support threads are along the lines of "My show/movie/animie" is not listed
🔹 Missing - 68 support threads
🔹 Missing Movie - 244 support threads
🔹 Missing tv show - 358 support threads
If the search results were unified i.e. searching for "Utopia" gives the result for the TV Show, The Movie and The Anime, in one place, reducing the number of "my thing is missing / please add it" threads would be reduced.
Lets assume that most users will not click through to the "genre tab" / simkltvsubmenu . Users are conditioned to click on search and getting a jumble of results, on one page that they scroll down on. The moment they start scrolling down the, "genre" tabs on top of the page disappear, and users assume that the visible results they are scrolling through are all there is. Even if the "genre tab" was persistent while scrolling, a lot of users will not click to the next tab, because they have been taught that new results / new things appear when you scroll down 🤷
The current search flow design is logical and elegant.Sadly the vast majority of users are neither logical nor elegant, ( starting with me 😃 ).
Martha
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Benjamin
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While it didn't take long for me to figure out I need to select the "Anime" tab when my search for an anime didn't show up at first, it would be convenient to have a unified search. There's already enough separation of pages between Watching, Plan to Watch, TV/Anime, etc. I'm spoiled coming from TV Time when most of this was on a single page but still broken down in a way that made sense.
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NeveN commented
I wouldn't like this. I mainly watch TV shows, very rarely I have to click the switch to search for a movie. If they were unified I would constantly get my search cluttered with movies, or have to click all the time to select "shows only" like I have to do on imdb and all other sites. This is one of the biggest reasons I prefer SIMKL over other sites and forced unified search would sadly ruin my experience.
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Fahim Abdullah Sikdar commented
The default needs to be an 'All' tab, while there will be 'Movies,' 'TV Show,' and 'Anime' tabs besides it.
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श्री वेद commented
Not only that, It is also a quality of life improvement.
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MinecrafterM commented
just add a button "all" that would allow me to search all tv, anime and movie at the same time