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 😃 ).
